you will notice the dimensions in Nashville (200 x 85) are the same as our rink back in Hickory...
OT- SCF- Game #2 ..... Pens vs Nashville .......
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WTF does the catfish mean? Nobody explains it? Just kept showing the Tennessee hillbilly fans holding them up? I could never be a dedicated enough fan to hold a huge smelly catfish for the entire game.Catfish is next!
Wow. What a win. What an explosion. This was different. You know Nashville now has to be wondering and having some doubt because they just saw the Pens explode and surgically dissect them in the 3rd. I thought Nashville pretty much won almost every race and puck battle and then Guentzel scored 15 seconds in the 3rd and they just deflated like a balloon.
They have to win Game 3. Have to. I think if the Pens split we are hoisting the Cup at home....finally.
Also......the Pens have a pretty good stable of young forwards which has propelled this team forward. Sheary, Rust, Wilson, all are good players, and will have roles in the league, Kuhnackl and Sundquist, I think are going to be effective role players, in fact I see Scott Wilson as the perfect replacement for Chris Kunitz starting next year. But Jake Guentzel is going to be a star. He has the speed, hands, IQ and willingness to go into the tough areas to score.
They have to win Game 3. Have to. I think if the Pens split we are hoisting the Cup at home....finally.
Also......the Pens have a pretty good stable of young forwards which has propelled this team forward. Sheary, Rust, Wilson, all are good players, and will have roles in the league, Kuhnackl and Sundquist, I think are going to be effective role players, in fact I see Scott Wilson as the perfect replacement for Chris Kunitz starting next year. But Jake Guentzel is going to be a star. He has the speed, hands, IQ and willingness to go into the tough areas to score.
Well....to the best of my knowledge, when the Preds came into the league, they were in the same division as the Detroit Red Wings. And that is when the Red Wings were at their best. They played them 5-6 times a year, and also in some playoff series and we all know the Red Wings tradition of throwing an octopus on the ice. Well one time, some Nashville fan responded by throwing a Catfish on the ice in answer, as a response and it stuck.
By the way, I am serious on this.
Yes the predators have to be exasperated at how much and how long they played better than the Pens only to see themselves down 2-0. Not able to finish their own chances and not able to stem the tide in the brief flourishes the Pens had. Either that will buoy them heading home or they'll be greatly discouraged and ripe to collapse. I think they've proven a resilient team but obviously I hope it's the latter. A quick goal or especially two by the Pens in game 3 might really seal it.
For their part the Pens have to realize they certainly haven't dominated these games (not for long anyway) and not to get complacent.
For their part the Pens have to realize they certainly haven't dominated these games (not for long anyway) and not to get complacent.
I think they will realize this. I don't think they have played their best game by a longshot. I think this 3 days rest will help them, I think they really looked tired the first game and some of last night, but the 3rd period I saw the Penguins and I saw Nashville shell shocked. I no doubt believe Nashville will be juiced up by their crowd. But wasn't San Jose last year? Washington? Ottawa? Columbus? I think the Pens are gaining their sea legs, and will take one of these games......
OK, as long as we don't start throwing Penguins on the ice, I'm fine with it. Although a LIVE CAT running around out there might be fun.
There's no real story to it. They saw what Detroit did and wanted to do it too, only they added a "southern" twist to it.
We actually likely have at least as many catfish in the Mon ... but of course they're highly toxic. 
We actually likely have at least as many catfish in the Mon ... but of course they're highly toxic.
Plus Wyndell's waterlogged computer.
-There are bait and switch strategies in every sport going back to Ali's boxing days and before him, sit back and patiently wait like a lion or cobra hunting before strike. Game 1, I think we were tired and sat back for 2 periods trying to do nothing on offense, and we were a bit lucky to win game 1.
-Game 2, classic bait and switch. The predators defense has been greatly cheating on the fore check all series long. Speed burned their ass in game 2 when we buried them in the 3rd period with pure speed on their cheating defenders on the fore check. The penguins are the only team in the NHL that can score at will with limited high chance opportunities, only if it is a few per game. Nashville paid the price in game 2. And will continue to pay the price if their defenders continue to cheat.
Saw Subban Video Prediction on CBS Sports and although his Voice was Confident his Eyes shifted and they revealed more Confusion. I expect they will go after the Penguins seeking Injuries, but they underestimate Coach Sullivan ability to prepare, adjust and the Columbus, Caps, and Senators tried it, and they all collapsed, Predators are being preyed upon by the Penguins Smarter play like you say.
I heard on CBS Sports Radio Night Show, that most Hockey Coaches just put in a New System every September and make their Player's Accept It, Learn It, and Perfect it all season long.
However, Pens Coach Sullivan has 3 Systems he puts together all season long to adjust to those Coaches and Teams just like Patriots and Belichick & Bama's Saban knows as much as about his Opponents to adapt his Teams to his Opponents Teams.
Coach Sullivan as done one thing many could not do with Penguins, he has them believing they can adapt change and take any blows and thuggery, by just focusing on their Hockey.
It now on the Predators to learn to adapt, but looks like they won't if Subban Eyes continue to betray his beliefs? Time to prove it quietly like Penguins, not say it, like a Predators Panic like their Playing is showing???
Talk to a Smart Bookie too, unless Refs change it, he says now Pens in 5 and that was before this last game? Pens have been out shot in both games but winning bigger by eyes on the prize not doing Videos like Predators did last week. Subban and Preds are on the Ropes but Pens on are their game.
I admit without excuses, I do not know a damn thing about Hockey, Basketball, and Baseball but I do know how to ask good questions and listen on those that follow it and bet on it and win, and then watch the eyes of Players and Coaches, and then it is easier to bet those games then.
We shall see?
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Hey, I didn't say they were my favorite. To be honest, I never so much as tasted one until I met my wife. (Her family tree is firmly rooted in Mississippi.)
That is correct for wild caught fish, but not correct for US farm raised catfish.
I don't know how imported farm raised catfish are fed, but the domestic ponds are pellet fed at top water. Night and day difference.
I would not eat Asian raised seafood because of the feed; chemicals; water quality; etc.
