Yeah, most fans cheers the losses as equally as the wins and all players are appreciated equally.Once Myers is gone, fans will just complain about another players. There's always a scapegoat.
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Yeah, most fans cheers the losses as equally as the wins and all players are appreciated equally.Once Myers is gone, fans will just complain about another players. There's always a scapegoat.
If my scapegoat has to be Juulsen who makes 775K, sign me the f*** up.Once Myers is gone, fans will just complain about another players. There's always a scapegoat.
solid post if we are discussing one game, but over time for me it's not even rational anymore. myers is always in the mix at key bad points in our games. it often is not his fault, but he's right there. i feel like at a deeper level the team is just out of synch with him on the ice and it shows up in unexpected ways. maybe other guys make mistakes because they are distracted by something myers did or did not do, or maybe they are just trying to hard too adapt to or allow for his style of play.
With a roster filled with Benning picks, there's an abundance of full value wipping boyse.Myers has cost us at least 4 games, single handedly. And countless egregious penalties that have resulted in goals. His constant defensive breakdowns have time and time again cost us this team more times than any other player.
Do I think there are scapegoats every year? Yes, no question, you will have players having down seasons, it happens all the time. The thing is, this is year 5 of Myers and I don’t think he’s ever played a stretch where he’s been solid for more than 10 consecutive games.
Why do these media guys just beat around the bush on every question? Someone needs to grow a pair and straight up ask what Foote sees in Myers/Juulsen
I don't see how kuzmenko is still a canuck by the trade deadline
Tocchet hates him and I don't really disagree with his main issues with kuz
Demko Petey not showing up is really hard to get used to.
Somethings wrong with them
Yeah his comments in the post game presser were just awful. He's clearly pissed with Kuz. I don't see how Kuz stays now.
and leave the wings as boeser, mikheyev, lafferty, hoglander, joshua and garland? no way. that team goes nowhere
"Hoggy scored, Laff scored ... we lucked out"
Wut
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Myers decision are, at times, incredibly confounding, so it becomes almost impossible to rely or be confident on having any clue what he'll do in a given situation.solid post if we are discussing one game, but over time for me it's not even rational anymore. myers is always in the mix at key bad points in our games. it often is not his fault, but he's right there. i feel like at a deeper level the team is just out of synch with him on the ice and it shows up in unexpected ways. maybe other guys make mistakes because they are distracted by something myers did or did not do, or maybe they are just trying to hard too adapt to or allow for his style of play.
I think Kuz is definitely trying to do what he was told, but he's just not that kind of player. He's an offense-first, scoring winger. Trying to turn Kuzmenko into a two way player or puck retriever is like trying to do that to Panarin. It's not going to work. It's not his game.Agreed, that's an awfully thin wing, but if Tocchet doesn't trust Kuz, and Kuz won't do whats asked of him by the coaching staff, I don't see how he stays here.
I think he positively impacts the PP, even when he's struggling everywhere else. He does kind of seem broken.I love 98% of what Tocchet has done here but the other 2% is how he’s pushed all the wrong buttons with Kuzmenko and turned him from an elite sniper who outscored his defensive issues to a caught-in-the-middle confidence-lacking shell of himself who looks terrified of making a mistake and then makes them anyway.
He was brutal today.you guys are exaggerating how bad myers is because you are all powerless to the peer pressure of hating on myers
I think Kuz is definitely trying to do what he was told, but he's just not that kind of player. He's an offense-first, scoring winger. Trying to turn Kuzmenko into a two way player or puck retriever is like trying to do that to Panarin. It's not going to work. It's not his game.
I don't think he's being asked to be a two-way player, from Tocchet's comments I get the impression it's entirely to do with his systems play (i.e. forechecking). Going to the boards hard and pressuring defensemen is not something that will affect his offensive talent, and he doesn't have the positional smarts to force turnovers as a replacement for forechecking.I think Kuz is definitely trying to do what he was told, but he's just not that kind of player. He's an offense-first, scoring winger. Trying to turn Kuzmenko into a two way player or puck retriever is like trying to do that to Panarin. It's not going to work. It's not his game.