Kuz is clearly lacking confidence in his shot. Trotz job should be to fix this
Don't think this is accurate.
It's either A- he honestly thinks passing will result in a better scoring opportunities
B- he's so unselfish he'd rather his line mates have the goal
Don't think this is accurate.
It's either A- he honestly thinks passing will result in a better scoring opportunities
B- he's so unselfish he'd rather his line mates have the goal
I'm happy with his recent play.
But come the 2nd round of the playoffs you can't pass that puck and need to score.
Weak opponent. Next.
Don't think this is accurate.
It's either A- he honestly thinks passing will result in a better scoring opportunities
B- he's so unselfish he'd rather his line mates have the goal
there are c's and d's that could be added to that. he is 10ft straight in front of the net alone and passed to a guy with a far worse shooting angle. he not only did that here but has a pattern of doing that this season. He was scoring that himself last season.
He is starting to rack up points and pucks are going in for Williams and Vrana and that is what counts. Kuzy is coming around.
Burakovsky, though. He hasn't scored a goal in 26 games.
If he wont shoot from there, he wont shoot
The way the metro is this season. Not getting the points vs weak teams is very costly.
Skins and caps wins I'm happy
We won a game that we had to win. Ovi ends his drought, Kuzy extends his point streak, Holtby gets a shutout. What more do you want?
If he shoots from there it gets saved. Being close to the goalie does not mean you have a good shot available.
He could shoot more but that's a good example of playmaking.
Also most backhand goals happen because the player flat out beats the goalie positionally and has a yawning net rather than cleanly beating them with a shot unless it's like Crosby or Radulov. Kuznetsov wasn't in the best position relative to the goalie, he was twisted, the goalie was square to him and he had dudes converging.