11/09/18 Condensed Game: Sharks @ Blues

Extended highlights of the San Jose Sharks at the St. Louis Blues

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[KineBuds]

Lets go blues ! won 4 of 5 and getting back on track <3

[RidingWithDave]

Keep Johnson in there and Allen out please.

[dack]

Bouwmester and allen out and we win? This is a miracle. It's not rocket science yeo

[nathantoth]

To get a shutout in today's NHL isn't easy. Congratulations Chad Johnson. The Sharks swam around High Danger Zone but St. Louis gave San Jose the Blues.

[jarink]

Anyone else think ROR is liking playing in St Louis?

[cadenbronson]

Poor dell. Not his fault. He was making good saves

[punchforpound]

It's against a team slowed down playing on back to back nights, so it's a little skewed, but I did not know O'Reilly was quite this good. He is playing at the level Leon Draisatyl used to play before the knee injury ruined his speed, but with more experience, detail, and man strength in his game. Very impressive. Also reminds me a lot of Kopitar who also reminded me of Draisatyl before Draisatyl lost his speed. To be fair Kopitar also struggled after a bad knee injury early in his career and it took him a year or two and intensive rehab during the summer to get back to what he was before. Maybe Draisatyl can also return to that level in the future. I feel Karlsson in Vegas is having the same issue after lower body injury in the Cup finals I believe last year. Before that injury, he was tearing up the NHL, and I believe the VGK were even outplaying the Capitals. Since that injury, the Capitals won every game vs the Knights, Karlsson was not able to be half the player he was before in that series and he still hasn't been able to be that player, and the VGK have not been half the team they were.

He was their top line center. He was their gamebreaker. He was the fastest player on the ice almost every game they played except vs the Oilers. And now, he's not. JM is carrying that line now, followed by Smith, followed by Karlsson. Karlsson went from the fastest player on the team to the slowest player on his line. And when that's your top line center, it changes everything. It's just like how the Vancouver Canucks were the fastest best team all season untilt heir fastest center, Ryan Kesler, suffered a bad LBI, and from that point on, the Canucks struggled to win a single game anymore, and Boston dominated them in the Finals even though the series still went 7 games somehow. And after that, Kesler was never the same, and the Canucks weren't either.

Some players recover back to 100% or near it. Some never do. Olli Maata is another one who was a great skater when he was drafted, but a handful of knee injuries later, and he's a healthy scratch because he can't keep up. Klefbom is another one. The breakout dman for the Oilers their playoff season, he hasn't skated half as well since suffering another lower body injury at some point after that, I believe, and the Oilers haven't been half the team. Most these teams only really have like 5 to 10 core, impact players, along with a bunch of complementary players, so if even one of those core players, or two in the Oilers case, gets slowed by injury for years to the point where they are no longer the same player, it really can completely ruin a team. Hell I have a feeling that if Ryan McD, Callahan, Stamkos, and TJ all had 100% healthy legs and knees, the Lightning would have lived up to their speed reputation in the playoffs last year and beaten Washington and the injured VGK. On paper, they should have, but they didn't and I truly believe that's why.