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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Mikko was raised by the Avs and was already getting pissed about the absence of calls. He may come around yet. But there's gonna be no replacing the sheer audacity, and we may never get over that loss.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Yes, but what would it take to replace that mustache?

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Immediately antagonizing the refs from the bench after his coach tells team to stuff it? Finding each and every way to the ice as he channels McDavid's embellishment but not his skill? Being an absurd locker room human? MushSmushes? Marchment is a man of multitudes, and I will miss the comedy.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I will miss the blue eyed ice troll for his commitment to the bit, if nothing else. They were never going to be able to the full WTF forward lineup together for budget reasons alone, and he's a reasonable fall guy given the Finn shaped upgrade. Now about heaving Dumba into the pit of Washed Up...

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I just want my highly prized purebred to show out at the big events and stop losing the group to the loveable lab. We know they never win best in show anyway.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It's amazing what happens when your goalie doesn't consistently blink first. (He was so damn good the first two rounds, and honestly a lot of Games 2-5 is probably that horribly timed URI. But the difference in the chance-to-goal-against ratio was staggering.)

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I don't know why the hockey gods hate Dallas so much against WCF goalies in particular. Even in 2020 it was like pulling teeth.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Played all of his meaningful adolescent hockey in the Stars system, from 12 until he joined the NTDP, but clearly his elementary school seasons in Denver are the only things that matter.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Happy for Dallas youth hockey legend Seth Jones (one day the hockey media will stop crediting his formative hockey years to Denver, I swear)

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Also, screw the Oilers to perpetuity.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

But until they build a better defense that doesn't rely on 35 minutes a night from Esa and Cody Ceci as second pair shutdown pals, they'll be in the same boat. If you can't possess and transition, you're gonna struggle deep in the playoffs or if your goalie urps for a series. That one's all Nill.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I don't mind the DeBoer move. He was right that Jake was part of the problem at that point, but when you scratch/pull any core guy you've got to actually debrief them about it soon afterward to maintain necessary relationships. You let that fester this long, and it's on you dude.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Per @tiffin.bsky.social this is the first part of the DeBoer quote about the pull. Comes right before the part more widely circulated to this point.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I wonder if the fact Jake was so good the first two rounds, unlike the last couple years, earned him more rope before the potential confidence torpedo. This was clearly, for better or worse, a desperation move. Desperate doesn't usually end up being a good look, no matter how justified it is.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Agree. It's risky as hell and didn't work. But it didn't come out of nowhere and pretending it was just for momentum is ignoring the elephant in the room. I would have been annoyed if he said "Goaltending alone dug us that hole." But that wasn't my read - just that Jake was and had been struggling.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I didn't read it as a throw under the bus, just a statement of fact. They all underperformed this series, Jake included. (I also want Jake to be secure enough in his talent to get mad about it and play better in these moments in an "I'll show you" revenge tour.)

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

For me it lies all around. The goalie was out-goalied by an inferior goalie, the forwards were outsniped by a shallower but top-heavier forward group, the D was exhausted and couldnt contribute offense. I won't defend coaching as a strength here, but execution was quite poor and that's on players.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

But is he wrong? That was the reason for the pull. Jake isn't the only reason they lost this series, but he certainly wasn't helping them win it, and he does struggle against Edmonton in the playoffs (worse this year than last). He pulled Jake. He was gonna get asked about it and say why.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

He didn't say they were the better team overall, just in this series. The evidence is pretty clear with that.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

But if you are paid to be your team's backbone you can't give up 2 goals on the first 2 shots no matter the quality of the chances. The very reason you're paid so much is to bail your team out in exactly that circumstance. It's a weird island for goalies. And a very Hellebuyck performance from him.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I hope Jake takes the pull as a wake up call. He's so damn talented. He was great through two rounds, a huge reason they got there. He stole so many wins in the season. And then he crumbled, again, in the biggest moment. He has to find a way to not go 0.851 in the WCF.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

They're a top four team in for multiple years while turning over their core, even in the setting of needing a key players deeply needing sports psychologist for and trying to fill defense holes with Literally Dumba and Ceci. It's so much more than I would have expected. It's utterly frustrating.

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Tier 1 P1 @tier1p1.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I'm old enough to remember the bankruptcy years, the pesky stars, losing a playoff series where you get 3 shutout wins etc. While this sucks ass, 3 straight WCF appearances and meaningful hockey lasting til the very end of May is pretty cool with a young core still intact. On to next season.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

(I wouldn't have pulled Jake because DeSmith isn't a better option overall. But they're gonna have to figure out how to get him a backup they can play in the playoffs, because the same story keeps happening. A fun but flawed team from the back all the way out.)

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

He still can do that. He has all the talent in the world to win games like this 1-0 or 2-1 deep in the playoffs. He's shown that talent this year. Game 5 will be a big tell from him. Either he gets outplayed by an untrustworthy dice roll of a goalie two years in a row or he figures it out.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Last crabby post before I go back to the babies, who deserve me more than that grumpiness. I've said they'll go as far as Jake takes them, and I stand by that. He's drug them (this season even) kicking and screaming to wins they had no business in. He has to be able to be that guy when it matters.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The sixth floor is displeased. Wyatt Johsnton where art thou? Or any other secondary scoring? (If you need to hold a team to 1 or 0 goals, you have to be able to. The Oilers only scored twice* and won. Their defense/goalie weathers key storms while ill timed goals continue to haunt Dallas.)

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

They're both problems. You have to score yes, but sometimes you gotta hold your opponent to 1-2 goals when your offense hits a slump.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I have rage and I'm sure I can find a pitchfork.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Save% of .876 this series, facing a max of 27 shots. No single game over .900 (had only one in the prior rounds under that). You gotta put pucks in the net, but you also gotta give yourself a chance. He has the talent to turn it around. Does he have the mental game?* *applicable to most everyone

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Getting soundly out-goalied by Stuart Skinner and mentally collapsing from it is a familiar script. Can't allow 3 goals on 18 shots when you're dominating chances. Can't allow a goal with 19 seconds left in a period. Being great in early rounds doesn't mean anything if you can't sustain.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Also, I'm just going to blame that on the fact they've gotten so used to the stupid late start times that they didn't show up until what would have been puck drop in their prior series.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This team is the definition of the most dumb. Often (sometimes) in the best way?

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Four down, the most important countdown of the spring.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Micah, we've talked about this so many times already.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Off the bottom of his hand (I think) and knocks it between his own legs away from the net. A self nutmeg.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I knew the hockey gods wouldn't spite them this game (like, you know, some games this series) because this didn't pinball off Jake back into his net and Swiss cheesed its way through him

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Also to be fair to that account, our enegmatic ice troll did give him a very long hug. The Sportsnet feed had it.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

To be fair, that entire line looks exactly like each other. It's easy to get confused.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Also, for the record, what a great Jake. Three down.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I had an awful week at work with the babies (hug your babies and don't sleep in bed with them) and have been down and sad and this doesn't fix all those terrible things but its a sports something special. Thank you, my greenest of idiots.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

These precious precious boys led by their high school physics teacher wunderkind

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

He is either engaged by doing great hits and passes or by doing head smackingly dumb penalties. No in between.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I, for one, welcome our new and eternal Finnish overlords. (That's the type of Jake night I can heartily enjoy. Yes a bad one but so much more good in the key moments. Good Jake, you too can be an honorary Finn.)

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

8-12 viral illnesses a year! (Daycare kids or how divisional opponents felt about Steve Ott, y'all can decide)

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

They aren't allowing us any more Blake Comeau thighs moments and it hurts me inside

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

True facts from everyone's favorite middle aged high school physics teacher.

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ErinB_DBD @erinb-dbd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I need people to appreciate the last post and also explain to me our new defensive stalwart Cody Ceci.

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