Tampa Bay @ Toronto

[ChaseSpace]

Tampa Bay Lightning(37-36-7) AT Toronto Maple Leafs(34-36-10)
7PM, SunSports

The Penultimate Peril.

[Sotnos]

You'd think they'd be keeping better track of Stammer! Got a lot of love from the crowd, very nice.

[Hoek]

One more. Gooooo Stamkos.

[Hoek]

Connolly just bought Stammer some more time with that idiotic own goal.

[Sotnos]

Well I know folks have been wanting Connolly to get one...

[SmittyFan1]

Nice FRICKING goal Connolly. Oh wait wrong FRICKING GOAL!!!!!!!!!!! The guy just plain sucks.

[Sotnos]

Wow, what an awful last play

[timothy]

Originally Posted by Bolts4Lyfe

My argument was with Zo's retort to Smitty. I said that what Smitty said was logical. There was no reason for Zo to say that sports aren't his thing because he doesn't have a high opinion of Connolly. That's all. Still confused?

Dude. You are new here. Lots of folks have been here a long time, and before that an eternity on the Sunsports board that died off while you were probably in elementary school. Point is there's a lot of history between posters that you have no clue about. There's a community that have been talking and discussing things for a long time and know each others tendencies. Your welcome to post here and we are glad you are here and want to contribute, but it's just plain goofy as a newbie to walk in and act like you are some arbiter of how folks should talk to each other.

[Bolts4Lyfe]

Originally Posted by timothy

Dude. You are new here. Lots of folks have been here a long time, and before that an eternity on the Sunsports board that died off while you were probably in elementary school. Point is there's a lot of history between posters that you have no clue about. There's a community that have been talking and discussing things for a long time and know each others tendencies. Your welcome to post here and we are glad you are here and want to contribute, but it's just plain goofy as a newbie to walk in and act like you are some arbiter of how folks should talk to each other.

Timothy, you're honestly one of the people I'm talking about that shoots people down if they don't share the same opinion as you, or if you feel they've asked a dumb question.And, how am I acting like an arbiter of how "folks should talk to each other"? Are you fucking serious? So what, I'm new. Big deal. Doesn't mean I can't backup someone that's getting undeserved hate. Just because I may have been in elementary school (nice troll, by the way) when the Sunsports forum died down, doesn't have anything to do with someone being blatantly mean to someone for no reason other than they don't share the same opinion. This is going nowhere, let's just drop it. Like always, people are going to try and out post each other, to see who makes the better comment.

That's all I notice on here, by the way. They only time someone gets any attention is when someone doesn't agree with their opinion and shoots them down for it.

[Bouché]

Connolly is a 19 year old playing in the NHL and people are acting like he's a bust already. He obviously has areas where he needs improvement but I have no reason to believe he won't be a productive player in this league. In the World Juniors he was fantastic and really showed what he was capable of. To fault him because he hasn't yet carried over that level of play to the NHL seems unfair, in my opinion. I actually thought Connolly was visibly more confident on the ice after the tournament (including up until this point) and his game has gotten noticeably better over the course of the season. He has been getting and creating more scoring chances and his compete level has gone up. His defensive and physical play could use improvement, but those are issues that most rookie forwards have when they're new to the league. Connolly will only get better and stronger and he'll continue to get help in the areas he needs to work on.

With all that said, I'm not opposed to trading him if the right deal comes along. We've got some impressive wingers getting closer and closer to becoming NHL-ready and that could make Connolly expendable. Regardless of where he ends up though, I think he'll be a good player in this league. Patience is key.