The only test that matters for me when it comes to his role on this team and that's the ability to get the puck out of his zone on the third pairing on a regular basis and help contribute to their possession game instead of having a 3rd pairing come out and be stapled to their zone for 95% of their shifts. I'm not worried about the counting stats of a 3rd pairing d-man with 2nd PP unit shifts. That's not important to me. That all will come when the forwards start converting on their scoring attempts which they are getting. The fact that he's a positive possession player with Dillon and mostly 3rd line or 4th line forwards is a huge improvement from what they had last year with Polak. Dillon and Polak were negative possession players and Schlemko turns Dillon into a positive possession player.
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The only test that matters for me when it comes to his role on this team and that's the ability to get the puck out of his zone on the third pairing on a regular basis and help contribute to their possession game instead of having a 3rd pairing come out and be stapled to their zone for 95% of their shifts. I'm not worried about the counting stats of a 3rd pairing d-man with 2nd PP unit shifts. That's not important to me. That all will come when the forwards start converting on their scoring attempts which they are getting. The fact that he's a positive possession player with Dillon and mostly 3rd line or 4th line forwards is a huge improvement from what they had last year with Polak. Dillon and Polak were negative possession players and Schlemko turns Dillon into a positive possession player.
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It should never have been a real debate. Braun is more proven at a higher level.
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Why am I not surprised it's you that posted this?
DeBoer is a pretty good coach. He's not perfect, but in his ONE year here we've gone further than we ever had before.
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sounds to me like he was being disciplined, and rather than turn it into a media circus he kept his mouth shut which i appreciate.
If hes scratched next game, there may be something here but right now id say its nothing
If hes scratched next game, there may be something here but right now id say its nothing
Schlemko coming close to tearing up over one healthy scratch while both give purposefully vague answers to the media doesn't say anything at all to you?
Obviously something else is happening here.
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The Schlemko issue will be forgotten once he plays tomorrow. Till then, people will assume the worst.
One scratch (healthy or otherwise) is nothing to be worried about. However, if this turns into a Nieto like situation, yeah, I will be worried then.
One scratch (healthy or otherwise) is nothing to be worried about. However, if this turns into a Nieto like situation, yeah, I will be worried then.
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PFFFTT, I am going to be up ALL night worrying about this!! I mean, good god, when the most elite player on earth is scratched with no explanation.... oh wait. I forgot. I don't actually care.
Honestly I figured they were just trying to get DeMelo gametime, sounds more like he pissed the coach off some how, it happens.
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From everything I've read on these boards you're due to be visited by 3 ghosts in a couple of nights.
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Meier and Labanc were last ones off the ice. Good work ethic in both of them.
Labanc shot a hundred pucks from various places on the ice. He is a perfectionist. If he missed one (which he seldom did), he would go retrieve it and shoot it again till he got it in the net. I can see why he has a good shot. He doesn't give up!
Labanc shot a hundred pucks from various places on the ice. He is a perfectionist. If he missed one (which he seldom did), he would go retrieve it and shoot it again till he got it in the net. I can see why he has a good shot. He doesn't give up!
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awesome. good to hear this kind of thing, goalscoring is so important in today's game. well it's always been important but it's harder than ever IMO so each goal means more.
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Why am I not surprised it's you that posted this?
DeBoer is a pretty good coach. He's not perfect, but in his ONE year here we've gone further than we ever had before.
Some people just can't get over their disliking of another and will make anything they do fit their agenda.
Gotta say I was very pleasantly surprised with the amount of people who came around on DW over the past 2 years. Thought people would hate him forever regardless of what he did.
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I still think he f'd up majorly after the Sharks were reverse swept. I could change my mind but there would have to be a lot of new info for that to happen. I thought he did very well in the summer of 2015 and said so on the boards. I defended him against other posters (mainly fans of other teams) who said he was a bad GM and that the Sharks would not be a good team last season. I don't understand why ppl think that if you criticize someone (even severely) you must hate them or if you praise them (even profusely) you must love them.
He absolutely messed up that season but it was still a matter of what was available to him at the time and that's impossible to say. Everyone knew their left side of the blue line was a weakness and it was never addressed. It was a justifiable criticism. The question was with all the history DW has had, was it in him to see it and fix it. He has a long history of questionable depth acquisitions but he finally got some things right when it comes to depth. The Ward, Martin, Schlemko, and Boedker signings are still good signings from a depth perspective even with Boedker's lack of production thus far. There are still some weird ones now and then like Zubrus, Spaling, and Polak but at least now there's some good ones plus the youth that has stepped in has helped immensely to address those issues as well whether it's Donskoi, Karlsson, or Tierney.
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