Svechhammer
THIS is hockey?
- Jun 8, 2017
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AgreedSide note, I think it can’t be over stated that we miss Pesce. He’s very good at breaking up plays down low, especially on the pk. They’d still score some but I’d bet he’d be in passing lanes and forcing them to work harder. I don’t know if Tro’s game winner the other night happens with Pesce. He’s going to be missed, and we’re missing him right now.
At the same time the reason we are hurting so much with Pesce being out is that the front office failed to have us in a situation where we could absorb an injury to a defensive player and be able to put in someone who could at least be serviceable in the defensive zone. Going from Pesce to TDA has f***ed Skjei's ability to be a difference maker this playoff run and has completely taken one of our better defensive players out of playing meaningful minutes because we just can't trust TDA in the defensive zone. As good as our defense is and what it's supposed to mean to our chances, it's major f***up by Waddell that our only serviceable defensive depth going into the playoffs was statistically the worst defensive defenseman in the league by a pretty significant margin.
2010 Philly has Pronger playing like 40 mins a night during that runSt Louis, 2019 Vegas, 2020 Dallas, 2010 Philly