SixthSens
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I attended last night's game, don't know if it was just me, but I found Boro left his position quite a bit just to hit a guy, a couple of times skating right by his forwards to do so.
Phaneuf I thought played well
Methot and Karlsson were ok, didn't think much of either last night
Ceci and Wideman were ok too, thoguht Claesson was noticeable
Our NZ system is designed to funnel the play to the left side, ando the left side dish are encouraged to step up like that. Boro is certainly the most aggressive, but Phaneuf and methot will try to stand up the play in the nz from time to time too.
Pretty sure Boro is highly encouraged to do this.
the left side D in the system they play is supposed to be stepping up and hitting people and the forwards are supposed to be covering for them doing that. it's part of why Boro leads the league in hits because he has free rein to do that. When he does if there is no one covering for it, I'm pretty sure that the discussion in the room is with the high side forward that didn't cover, not with Boro for stepping up and going for the hit. Because he does that frequently is also probably why he is playing ahead of Claesson who most think, including me, brings more in just about every other aspect of the game.
The left side D stepping up for the hit gets talked about a lot by the analysts on TV.
Lost in the sauce
Lost in the sauce
Pyatt kinda lost his man going after the puck there. Gave up open ice to a man with speed. Not a great play by either guy there.
What? Is it the return of the gif argument to show someone is bad? Have I seen that before we one of our player?
One bad sequence, against JT of all player, doesn't represent the strong game he had by being in JT's face all game when it wasn't Pageau.
He played a strong game this afternoon.
What? Is it the return of the gif argument to show someone is bad? Have I seen that before we one of our player?
One bad sequence, against JT of all player, doesn't represent the strong game he had by being in JT's face all game when it wasn't Pageau.
He played a strong game this afternoon.
He was matched up against tavares all game. Thought he did well against him aside from the one missed check.
Well we know he's not a Tavares level player.
He does his thing. He's very average at his best at a very difficult job.
What? Is it the return of the gif argument to show someone is bad? Have I seen that before we one of our player?
One bad sequence, against JT of all player, doesn't represent the strong game he had by being in JT's face all game when it wasn't Pageau.
He played a strong game this afternoon.
Yes. Very average at a difficult job when you have to compete against 29 teams who, for the most part, all have someone better than Ceci doing that job so yea it's all about relativity.
I think people are getting carried away with this gif while it really has nothing to do with the criticism that Ceci has been getting since game 1 of the 2016-17 season.
And then people will say we are in a playoff spot. Sure, yea, Dallas also made the playoffs with Lethonen and Niemi last season. Doesn't mean they have good goaltending.
Our defensive system and especially the dedicatiob of our forwards on the defensive side makes Ceci look alright but when you look at him game in and game out it's worrying. Decision making is terrible.
I think he is a pretty average #4D. We have D better than him as well. Put a microscope on most players and shout out every mistake ... IMO He's not something to brag about but he is not absolute ***** either.
there are not more than 12-15 teams you can say their 4TH D is absolutely better than Ceci. If you factor in Ceci's age its another + for him.
I get frustrated watching parts of his game just like everyone else but it is a hard fn job to be really good at
Some of you folks are bat**** crazy and it's difficult to figure out unless it's cool to be an internet warrior.
Ceci has been great as a young #4 dman, why is it necessary to isolate a single play on a single shift. I don't think folks know how to evaluate dmen besides looking at the scoring sheet.
If you think he will be exposed in the expansion draft you're nuts, if you think he'll be traded you're nuts. He will keep developing and will provide years of solid D. There is a contingent on this board that is both very immature and very poor at evaluating hockey players.
Ceci was 10/27 in EV Corsi today....
Do you see the problem with the eye-test sometimes??