barnburner wrote: Fri Nov 29, 2019 2:27 pm
Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:42 pm
barnburner wrote: Fri Nov 29, 2019 1:39 pm
Allen in for Binner
Pouliot for Gunnar
Walker for Sunny D
If we win this game, Chief better get a thirty year contract.
And if we lose, we bring in Bill Peters as the coach in waiting for Chief starting Allen.
I think they fear that a bad game at home by Allen might put him back in useless mode for the rest of the season.
I think they are past that point; they already know that the best way to get any points out of Jake is on the road, and his record reflects that over the last calendar year too:
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Just looking at this year,
his stats vs WC is a lot better than the EC, along with his road totals. The only bad WC game was vs the Wild, and IIRC the whole team stunk it up that night. As Bill mentioned, if you're playing the odds and using stats for part of your decision process, you play Allen tonight and Binner tomorrow to get as many points from the back to back as you can.
PS: The above was not an endorsement of Jake Allen; it's just he is what the Blues have as a backup, so got to root for him and hope we get at least 3/4 points this weekend.