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Shaw has a ton of NHL minutes over a number of seasons and is bad every time he’s ever been called up. Guys like him who produce in the AHL at age 27 are omnipresent and rarely, if ever do they amount to even a league average NHL guy. So while I haven’t watched a minute of the Moose this season, it’s hard for me to imagine that Shaw is a better option than even someone like Seuss who they at least gave an extended look to in the preseason.
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Well, top 6 is back to that definition of insanity.
Feel like the "prorated" is there for extra authority. Could also have gone with "amortized."
If Laine is banged up after his Sbisalypse then LSE can't happen, so CSW makes sense, whatever the mythical numbers. Would rather see Seuss or Spacek or Luoto, but Shaw is a big body, looked respectable in the preseason, likely takes Lowry's place?
What's going with Heinola?
Obviously, don`t know what the numbers reflect . Maurice doesn`t even provide context -except a lower number is clearly worse. If I were to guess, they may be related directly to actual time spent in the offensive zone but....? Maurice does put an inordinate amount of weight on this for some reason,even though there is no clear correlation to better team success. Of course, if we`re in the offensive zone, we can`t be scored against 
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I think Sbisa will get a hearing and 2 games
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I think Sbisa will get a hearing and 2 games
2 games in or 2 games out??
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Hey, you never know -
Maybe the new and improved Ehlers / Laine will make that combination work - won't hurt to take a look at it considering nothing in the top 6 is currently tearing up the league.
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Maybe, would prefer to see the new improved Laine/Ehlers work with Scheifele.
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Obviously, don`t know what the numbers reflect . Maurice doesn`t even provide context -except a lower number is clearly worse. If I were to guess, they may be related directly to actual time spent in the offensive zone but....? Maurice does put an inordinate amount of weight on this for some reason,even though there is no clear correlation to better team success. Of course, if we`re in the offensive zone, we can`t be scored against
It looks like total goals for numbers over the season. Two years ago we had 273, last season we had 270, this season if you extrapolate we're on pace for 205.
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This is correct, and quite honestly depressing
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Feels like a 'missing the forest for the trees' moment when those numbers are put in context.
Have the lines been changed enough for long enough periods of time in those 3 seasons to draw any real conclusions from those totals?
3 years is a long time in pro sports, young players gain experience and their games change as a result and older players can slow down quite a bit in that time.
That is my hope actually. Both are better this year, so who knows?
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Don't we need another forward recalled if Laine can't go? My god no Lowry and no Laine would be rough.
Ehlers-Scheifele- Wheeler
Connor- Little- Roslo
Perreault- Copp- Borque
God knows what
that is of course Maurice logic. Many better things you could do. But either way thats a rough forward group to match our defence
Ehlers-Scheifele- Wheeler
Connor- Little- Roslo
Perreault- Copp- Borque
God knows what
that is of course Maurice logic. Many better things you could do. But either way thats a rough forward group to match our defence
Yeah... why should the default move be try an improved player with a line that hasn’t previously worked so you can have a first line that also doesn’t work? Especially when the alternative is two lines that historically do work.
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The answer is really not that difficult - try a few combo's until they find something that works.
This is not a default move - the top 6 has been shuffled a few times already and we are not scoring - so keep trying.
Many have held Mo accountable for not making moves when things don't appear to be working -
Things don't appear to be working - give it a shot and see how it goes before assuming it won't work based on the "history" of players that are better now than they were then.
The problem with that logic is that players like Laine and Ehlers have produced more than their share, its players like Wheeler and Connor who haven't, so rewarding them with top line time for that is strange.
The other issue is that Wheeler's completely forgotten how to run the PP and now seems to just try to snipe it with his awful shot.
If there's one change that's needed it's demoting Wheeler to the 3rd line and promoting Roslovic.
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