Sometimes It Looks Like The Tampa Bay Lightning Are Playing Against Beer Leaguers
Ah yes. I know that defensive strategy deployed by the Devils extremely well. It’s called the “it’s 11:30pm, I have to get up for work in 6 hours, we’re already getting our asses kick and I just want to get out of here as soon as possible”. It happens in pretty much every single beer league game that has ever been played. Not a lot of effort. Just a bunch of stick swinging. Before you know it, the puck ends up in the back of the net and you’re just begging for the clock to run. I’ve seen it a million times.
The only difference is that’s in beer league with a bunch of washed up nobodies, and this is in the National Hockey League against fellow professional hockey players. You really have to feel bad for Kinkaid here. 7th goal he gave up on the night and it’s not like he could have done anything about this one. Just got hung out to dry to get the PAT hung on his head. No figure the dude didn’t even want to pick himself up off the ice after that one.
Would you want to get back in net to face the Bolts after that massacre? For sure not. Kinkaid is just trying to do his job and his boys are sending him to the firing squad. It’s a damn shame. But that’s just what happens when Stamkos and Kucherov get themselves going. They carve teams up and beat them into submission. It can get ugly out there and you’d think that maybe these guys would have some compassion every now and then. But they don’t. They don’t give a single flying h*ck about their opponents and it shows right here. They are just out there seeking death and destruction to every goalie who stands in their way. Psychopaths. I mean they’re fun to watch and everything but it can get gruesome at times.
P.S. – At one point last night, the Tampa Bay Lightning had 3 goals scored in a row by somebody named “Braydon”. I wonder if that’s ever happened before in NHL history.
Need some stat nerds/NHL history nerds to get on that one for me.