GDT: 12/16/23 - 10:00PM EDT - Tampa Bay @ Calgary

Master P

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Mar 31, 2016
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No. Too cheap.
Found a snippet that on some other site. It does give a bit of an explanation as to why so many point shots go in.

"The idea with their defensive style is to clog up the shooting and passing lanes to make puck movement around the net difficult. This also heavily relies on players to sacrifice their bodies to block shots. With the defense compacted out in front of their goaltender, eyesight may be an issue. This isn’t truly a concern as the Golden Knight goalie Adin Hill is 6’6″; still, Vegas is phenomenal at shot-blocking. Vegas, as a team, are blocking 19 shots a game. Three of the top five players in the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs in blocked shots are Vegas defensemen."
 

Rschmitz

Finding new ways to cheat
Feb 27, 2002
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Over complicating the defensive structure when combined our cocktail of other issues on the blueline was a bad idea.

An amazing system with players who can't play it, is a bad system. That's why the simple stuff usually works the best.
 
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