Rest Update: Leopold and Kennedy skate

Whichever way it pans out, it’s good that it’s a best of 7 series.

I still don’t know whether or not I’m disgusted or attracted to that bright yellow practice sweater Leo was wearing though.

I think rest is more of a benefit and less a burden in Hockey than in other sports, like basketball. Hockey takes such a huge toll on the body, that with a few days rest more than another team can mean a point or two differential – easy.

I’m excited for the prospect of rest mainly because this won’t get near the point of TOO much rest, like say if we had swept the Sens. I’m unsure how the playoff times do it, but I would think we will have a game by the end of the week (does the East have to wait for West series to complete?) which would be a solid amount of rest that will get our guys back to feeling better to go out there and forecheck hard. I feel like that was one aspect of our game we lost as the series with the Sens went on.

I think at this point the rest would be more beneficial then the adrenaline. With two players banged up that we know of. Some of our older players will need more rest then the younger.

Last year’s series:
Round 1: 4/15-4/25 followed by 6 days off
Round 2: 5/2-5/13 followed by 4 days off
Round 3: 5/18-5/26 followed by 3 days off
Round 4: 5/30-6/12
 
6 days off and 3 days off led to losing the first two games of the following series. 4 days off led to a sweep. If I had to guess, I’d say we get 5 days off this time and start the series with Boston Friday.

I don’t think it makes much difference to have a long or short layoff, so I’d go with getting the rest and having as healthy a team as possible going into the next round.

If we were firing on all cylinders and rolled handedly over the Senators, I’d be worried about having so much time off. Look what happened to Ottawa the year they charged into the playoffs and hammered everyone in the East, then had a big layoff, and laid an egg for the ducks. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) we’re not quite a well tuned machine yet, so days off shouldn’t hurt us.

I think what Leo provides is simply a solid Defensive player. He’s good on the D side, and he’s good on the O side of things as well. You can count on him to kill penalties and defend the stars on the other team, and you can count on him to be an additional leader for the PP, or at least shoot when he has a lane or not fumble any passes.

You really think that McKee has been great? He is a serviceable 6th/7th defenseman, but Leopold is a huge upgrade. McKee had trouble keeping up with the game last last two games, and was constantly beaten to the puck.

TK will get in the top 12 forwards, I imagine Conner would sit, maybe even CC stays in the lineup and Mike Rupp sits….Which, yeah, does mean that Fedotenko’s fallen to 14th on the forward depth chart and may well have played his last game in a Penguins jersey.

…Of course we thought that last year with Satan and Sykora and both of them were asked to give a little bit more deeper in the playoffs. So who knows.

I agree — if we don’t get enough rest, we’re going to be banged up for the next series, and there’s not much you can do about that. If the team comes back rusty that’s a lot easier to fix.

The first time we went back to Boston after that hit, the shit was supposed to hit the fan. Cookie took his lumps but the fans were pretty docile.

There was actually an article on it in sportsillustrated. I’d dig it up but finding links on my cell phone is a shit.

CORRECTION

“If Montreal wins and Buffalo wins” my bad. If Montreal and Boston won we’d get Montreal

bring on whoever.

go pens.

whoooooooooooo

Just my opinion…momentum may exist within a game, but when you’re talking one game to the next, the big Mo is just an excuse used by the losing team.