Blue Liner
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Strongly agree with all the talk about Murphy. He's been really good, and our best dman for a while now. He broke up a bunch of potential odd-man rushes last night. I find that he's very aggressive in his defensive play, but in smart and under control way unlike everyone else. Surprisingly great stick too, and on paper he seems like the type of dman that Q should love.
He deserves a shot with Keith on the top pair, but Q also has to change the way he's using the top four. Make that the shut down pair. I don't understand why he's giving Forsling the type of zone starts and competition that he is. Nice to see what he's capable of I guess, but why not play his players to their strengths a bit, and actually put the team in a better to position to win games? I want to give him a bit of credit and say maybe he learned something from his handling of Leddy, but I doubt that has anything to do with this.
I wouldn't even mind him giving 7 dmen a try again. It probably won't happen though because they lost that game, and Q is bizarrely results over process when it comes to lineup decisions.
Thought it was Pierre. but guess I was wrong. Really strange comment, especially on a night they were talking up Debrincat as future star. It was like something you'd read on here.
Whoever it was, that kind of analysis and take is..well...terrible, and an indictment on hockey analysis as a whole considering that's the lead team of analysts for the US national broadcasts.