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The Fantastically Beautiful Joyously Superfun 22-23 Season Celebration Thread

Seafood, house made pasta, and the most wonderful rotating seasonal cocktails.

Mostly sharing plates.

Menu also rotates seasonally with a few key staples.

Our standard staples include: ahi tuna tartare with quail egg, magic delicious sauce (not its actual name) and frites allumettes; raw scallop, tonnato melts, and....I forget the other. Sometimes they have a raw sockeye dish which is fantastic.

Then a pasta main and maybe a fish main too.
im a sucker for an ahi tuna tartare
 
It’s comical that Marner is leading the team in scoring and the only PPG+ player, and yet has played his worst hockey that I can remember seeing.
 
Hoping to see that xgf% get back up to the 3 in the NHL, though it is trending up despite the schedule getting a little tougher. ME said it best: they're playing like a good, not great team.
 
not sure if Keefe switched up the pairings midway or if he went back and forth, but it was Gio that slid up into Brodie's matchup role all game, while the other two pairings saw a distinct change:

Gio-Holl 12:52, 40.5xgf%

Rielly-Lilly 5:07, 19.6xgf%
Rielly-Benn 10:16, 74.3xgf%

Sandin-Benn 5:13, 88.3xgf%
Sandin-Lilly 10:40, 56.1xgf%
 
Yeah, that tracks with my eye test. They've been good but just good with obvious room for improvement. Mitch is on pace for 92 points despite the general moaning about our best players and Auston has scored 6 goals in his last 9 (13 points in last 12 games) which is a raging heater for everyone in the league aside from Auston and like 5 dudes.

These guys:

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Aren't the reason we're not scoring enough.

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A bunch of these guys though...

There's forwards in there getting significant minutes that are on pace for 5-10 goals

- The 2nd PP unit has 1 goal this season despite getting about 1/4 of the usage
- Kerfoot has 0 EV goals
- If we just compare us vs Boston at the top of the division and omit our respective top 4 scoring forwards, Boston's depth forwards have scored 25 goals to our 17. Boston's top 4 has scored 25 goals to our 24.
- Likewise, Boston's blueline has scored 9 goals to our 4.

So I can buy the argument that we've invested more heavily in our "core 4" forwards and should expect higher results out of them than other teams, and that just holding serve against a top performing offensive team (3rd in 5v5 GF) isn't good enough, what I can't buy is how much better we expect them to be better than something like Marchand + Pasta + Bergeron + whoever for us to be performing well as a group.

Mitch & Auston scoring 2 more goals each this year (which would put them on 26 and 46 goal paces respectively) isn't the difference between being a bubble team and not.

But the 5-6 more Kerfoot and Bunting should have between them, the 4-5 more our blueline should have (but that's a tactical decision that's on Sheldon imo), on top of the handful more than the rest of the depth should have is pretty massive.

Basically, we shouldn't depend on Mitch & Auston to score 35 and 60 respectively for the offence to be top shelf. Expect them to be great in line with their pay cheques, absolutely. But both are only a couple of points off of that pace currently. Nylander and Tavares are doing what would be expected of them.
 
I think the offensive outage is team wide tbh. The only guys scoring at the expected pace, both goals and points, are Tavares and Lilly.

And actually the bottom 6 has been decent - 14 goals in 16 games, just under a goal per game, which is a solid rate for the bottom 6.
 
Bunting, Kerf and Yarn Cock have been very disappointing but Robertson is the guy for me that I was counting on to really give their secondary scoring a jolt. They need a kid like that to step up one of these years in the worst way I think. At the moment he doesn't really seem close but he did show flashes in the preseason and game one of this season. As of right now it just seems like kerf is their most dangerous offensive forward outside of their core 4 and honestly, that's not a good thing. Hell, Kampf is their fifth highest scoring forward! Not ideal.

But anyway, I agree with zeke. They all look out of sorts offensively including the top dogs and it can't all be blamed on poor luck.
 
i dunno most of our losses have been 1 goal games or two goal games with empty netters, including two OT losses to crap teams, i think four extra goals from mitch and matthews could've easily resulted in a couple extra wins.
 
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