Sentences with phrase «last handful of games»

That's just the luxury of having won the Scudetto weeks ago and playing the last handful of games with little pressure attached to them.
«We were talking about desperation and playing with urgency and we've lacked that a little bit in the last handful of games,» Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said.
Smith, JDickie, Honks and Heatherington to all get more time in the last handful of games.
Diego Costa did not pick up his goalscoring pace until nearly midway through the season, and Eden Hazard didn't even score a goal until the last handful of games.

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Even though we have only seen him for 45 NHL games and a handful of World Cup games this fall, McDavid already looks like a player that is ready to completely take over the NHL and give us what we were anticipating going into last season.
This was truly anyone's Game until the last handful of minutes, when Team Unger just finally wore Halperin's crew down..
Arsenal though are at a massive 2/1 or better, and I bet there have not been more than a handful of games in the last 20 years that have seen us at such a high price for a home game, and I think that could prove to be a great bet, and this is why.
This particular health supplement has killed a handful of people in the last 5 yearst but its the Superbowl, if Im going to have a heart attack anyways (and the stats say you defnitely are) I want it to be during the Big Game.
Despite possessing a handful of players who played key roles on last year's run to the title, it was freshman Zach Norvell Jr. who took, and made, the biggest shot of the game for Mark Few's team.
And b4 you say dzeko isn't good and didn't score goals please look at his stats before last season where he regularly reached 15 goals coming of the bench and starting only a handful of games.
The Crimson Tide have lost a handful of close games over the last few years.
The 31 - year - old goalkeeper has played his last nine seasons for Marseille, only missing a handful of games in that span.
He played his best football for us as a RWB in a handful of games at the end of last season.
Last Friday, South Point released spreads for a handful of the most exciting matchups on the schedule including rivalry games like the Iron Bowl, the Governor's Cup, and the Red River Showdown.
He had a small handful of games in which he looked like he had a chance to fulfill his promise, but given his inconsistency last season, it's not surprising that Charlotte would rather roll the dice with the players in this year's draft.
never waste CAPITAL LETTERS on an article about Chambers at this juncture... I still can't believe that no one from management has ever explained why such a frugal club spent so much money on him in the first place... we haggle for months and years with clubs for players who could have a monumental impact on the very future of our club but somehow we found $ 16 million for someone who couldn't regularly crack a Southampton lineup (very fishy)... don't get me wrong, I like what he showed at times last season in Middlesbourogh but from the handful of games I watched him play I still have some serious questions about his consistency as a back - line player in the EPL; as such he should prove himself on loan for another season, making sure that he goes to a team that wants him in the starting 11... bottom line, let's not get bogged down with the semantics of peripheral players and focus on the real task at hand = figure out who the hell is going to be our starting 11 for the foreseeable future, which means getting contracts signed, getting rid of a lot of deadwood and bringing in talented players into the positions which truly need upgrading... the rest is just unnecessary noise
Undefeated Wisconsin is now the conference's last best hope for a playoff spot, failing mass chaos in other conferences in the final four weeks — but if the Badgers stumble in the Big Ten title game against a multi-loss East champion looking for one last handful of style points (assuming they survive a visit from Michigan later this month), their résumé likely won't hold up against the other one - loss teams under consideration.
West Ham on the other hand, although unbeaten in four, had only won once in the last eleven games and had accumulated only a handful of points from top eight sides all season.
Seeing where Juve's last handful of Serie A opponents sit in the league table, I constantly thought to myself, «Okay, this is the game where the offense could break out a little bit and pave the way to a comfortable win.»
Im sure he will come through this, you always have a couple of players that ai nt on their game 100 %, yes he so far ai nt been the player he was last year but lets not start slaughtering him, the same as Noble.If he doeant improve then fair enough you replace him but i ai nt going to write someone off after a handful of games
I only missed a handful of games last season and he was magnificent, growing in confidence and stature throughout the campaign.
The tiny midfielder proved a handful in the last game against the Germans and Wenger will be looking to the likes of the very impressive Vermaelen, Koscielny and Song to cut out the threat he provides.
Kevin Wimmer 2/0 Tottenham Hotspur (Eng) Age 23 (15.11.92) Centre - back who has only played a handful of games for Spurs since joining from Cologne last summer.
Speaking to Arsenal player about Abou Diaby who only managed a handful of games last season, Wenger said:
When it came out last fall, «Gamer» was quickly dismissed and almost as quickly left theaters, leaving in its wake a handful of dedicated fans and critics that either hailed it for its technical wizardry or panned it for its rapid - fire editing, fevered pace, and outrageous plot.
When we filed into one of the Alamo Drafthouse's South Lamar theaters last night, we immediately discovered that each of our seats had been thoughtfully prepared for the shenanigans that would soon follow: we had a little Your Highness chalice / cup (presumably for drinking games we might want to apply to Krull and The Sword and The Sorcerer, both of which were playing alongside Universal's new film), a plastic sword, and a handful of posters commemorating the event.
At last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Konami revealed a handful of big - name games, including Castlevania: Lords of Judgment, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
In this edition, we're featuring a handful of the star - studded Super Bowl commercials from last night featuring the likes of Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt selling Michelob Ultra, Stranger Things police chief David Harbour talking about Tide, Game of Thrones badass Peter Dinklage rapping for Doritos, Jurassic Park franchise star Jeff Goldblum driving a Jeep alongside some dinosaurs, and many more.
I've done well with the handful of individual stocks I've purchased, but it's a dangerous game to play (imagine the poor people who bought Volkswagen stock last week).
We scrounge up a handful of our absolute favorite games from last year — some from totally unexpected places.
When Nintendo launched its quirky online shooter Splatoon on the WII U last year, the game had only a handful of maps, weapons and cosmetic clothing options.
Not to mention that at this point it is a solid bet there will be no major 3rd party games to get released this year, last year still saw a handful of releases even though they were few and far between this year is a wasteland in that area so new sales riding on a yarn - based game starring a second rate character and a Kirby that while does look good does not look anywhere close to mainstream.
There has been a valiant attempt over the last handful of years to create an awards night that celebrates video games.
Just the other day (January 10th), a handful more titles were added to its list of last - gen games playable on the present - day platform, including a couple of Battlefields, the 2009 Ghostbusters, and Dragon Age: Origins.
Shovel Knight, one of the best indie games to have made its way to release in the last handful of years, is a beautiful retro - inspired platformer.
With the last «Workshop Update», the game got a handful of tools and features that encourage modding.
Today's event did not contain the two hours of game hype that accompanied Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4 event last February, but Microsoft did unveil a handful of big titles, including Forza Motorsport 5 (which will be released alongside Xbox One) and Quantum Break (an unusual game that uses live action footage to tell a story).
A handful of huge games are being reborn for PS4 in the near future, including «The Last of Us: Remastered» on July 29 and «Grand Theft Auto V» this fall.
A handful of very huge games have been released over the last few weeks, but the month comes to a close with just a pair of new titles.
But as it stands, allowing gamers to re-play titles they probably only last touched a couple of years ago (and only a handful of them at that) is more of a convenient feature than a killer app — especially in an era where all the old games you want to play have been remastered or re-released anyway.
The Game Awards were host to a handful of announcements last night and new trailers for already announced games, but one of...
There are no lives in the game; instead, death merely results in you returning to the last checkpoint and losing a handful of coinage — hardly a major frustration as coins are everywhere.
Average COD game lasts about 7 minutes with 10 deaths and hundreds of encounters, wheras BR, even the really short games usually only have a handful of encounters with lots of running about scavenging inbetween.
The love affair between Hollywood and the Wild West may be long gone, with only a handful of truly great films and a plethora of cheesey rugged hero damnsel - in - distress flicks to show for it, but the last few years have proven that the video game industry is less than willing to let the setting go so easily.
Last month, you and I looked at a handful of upcoming sci - fi horror games that have been on my mind lately...
After all, only a handful of games have been able to prove what Move can do, and it's about time some of the solid titles that were promised when PlayStation Move was announced at the last E3 make their way to the system.
Additionally, Remedy Entertainment announced today that those who pre-order the game will receive a handful of cool bonuses including backwards compatible versions of Remedy's last - gen horror title Alan Wake along with two DLCs and Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
At the end of last week they added user reviews, giving people the ability to post their opinions and a five star rating, as well as picking a handful of tags so that prospective buyers could try and find games similar to their own tastes more easily.
Last week, Sony announced that as part of the PlayStation Plus subscription service, PS4 users would be getting opportunities to vote on a handful of games, with the winner being included in the next month's free game lineup.
Each of us kids was introduced to the game by our dad, George, and every summer we'd receive a handful of balls that were to last us until fall.
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