Boom Boom Apathy
I am the Professor. Deal with it!
- Sep 6, 2006
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I'd really like Tripp and Chip Alexander to stop characterizing the Hanifin-to-Faulk play as a "bad pass." The pass was perfect. Faulk missed it with his skate and his stick on the second chance, then got beat up the ice.
No, just no. That pass was anything but perfect. When you are on the blueline and simply need to make a pass across to your partner and not send it in his skates, it's far from perfect. That said, Faulk took a poor pass and made it infinitely worse with how he played it so not absolving him at all as he f***ed it up also. In the end though, that was irrelevant when you score zero goals.
Watching live, it was painfully obvious that the Canes can't pass in transition. So many passes in skates, behind guys, to the other team, too far in front, etc. When a team does like NYI did, just clog the neutral zone and pack it it, the severe lack of passing skills turns the Canes into a weak dump and chase team. To me, it was less about Peters adjusting than it was about the Canes not having the skill to make quick passes in transition to solve the other team's plan. Was one of the more boring games I've seen in a while, and that's shocking considering how the Islanders play. There was a short stint in the 2nd where it was more up and down, but that's it.