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“I really wish I had scored on that one, and I wanted get the puck back right away.”

More of that, please.

BEST DANGLE

Goldy and JV18 weren’t bad together.

BEST POP QUIZ

Willie is the coach. The team loses 7-1 to Nashville.

Things look bleak. All those injuries.

Pop quiz time:

Are the lines changed?

I’m going to go with no.

More importantly, does Willie urge his team to be aggressive or does he think tying a game at one is the only way his group is going to get a point?

Green couldn’t be more different.

“We’re not going to sit back. To me, that’s a slow death in a game,” he said.

Boy, he just described months of the last two seasons in one sentence.

“We want to be aggressive.”

Henrik is a Willie survivor. You think he has any shade for the way things were back in the day?

“You can’t back out (when you have injuries). If you want to win in this league, you have to be aggressive.

“Even more so when you have guys out who play a lot of minutes.

“It’s tough for a young guy to come in and you tell him to sit back and play on the right side.

“Then, you’re playing on your heels.

“It’s too tough of a league to do that. You have to play on your toes.

“You have to play with jump and you have to be excited. If you just sit back, you get no speed.”

That may be the best explanation I’ve heard on why staying aggressive is arguably more important for understaffed teams.

WORST PLAY

Yeah, so Stecher and Hutton together.

It was not their finest moment. They sat out the final four minutes in regulation and neither got a shift in OT.

That giveaway which led to the Sharks’ second goal late in the middle frame didn’t do themselves any favours.

Stech has been making more plays like this than you’d think.

It didn’t help them that Biega was going bananas, beaver-tailing all night like this:

And crashing the net like this:

And laying the body like this:

BEST REQUEST

Can I be there when Markstrom asks Edler about this one?

How about you let the goalie manage the goal line?

BEST SCOUTING REPORT

Boeser on the Sharks’ aggressive penalty killing:

“We watched film on them and knew they were going to pressure hard on one side of the ice.

“We knew we could exploit them if we could get a quick-strike pass from that aspect.”

Well, that worked.

BEST IDEA

Uh, Brent Burns, The Flow leads the league in goals since November.

May not want to back up when he has the puck.

BEST DEBUT

Has anyone in the history of reviews got a better reaction than Sat did tonight on the panel?

He’s the Baby Driver of intermission panellists.

Everyone loves this guy.

You think it ended there?

I am here to tell you.

It did not.

TV is not supposed to be this easy.

BEST DEBATE

Speaking of the panel, so this happened: