Pred303
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Would have been nice to have had this in Colorado once upon a time:
lol, it damn sure would have.
Would have been nice to have had this in Colorado once upon a time:
We talk about the failings of the pp a lot, deservedly so. but one area we absolutely need to improve this year is the pk numbers. For a team as good defensively and in net as we are it is inexcusable to finish 18th in the league on the pk as we did last year.
Jackman should help here on the backend, when Weber wasn't out there we didn't do a very good job clearing the creasde on the pk.
i thought last year much of the problem was our forwards. especially nystrom and gaustad's lack of quickness, which allowed too many open point shots off reversing the puck from d to d. those point shots were compounded by the lack of doing a good job clearing the front.
really hope hodgson can help out here, even though i don't know his pk ability.
lol byrd, you worry entirely too much. it's an 82 game season, this group should be fine.
Would have been nice to have had this in Colorado once upon a time:
two days guys. two days.
You wanna pop some of my anti anxiety pills to chill out? I know the season is coming, I know there are questions to answer, I know there are high expectations...
Oh **** it! 2 days!
i have to admit i'm a little worried about our pk forward options, as bad as our pp was, we probably have better personnel choices to make it better than we do for the pk.
i'm guessing;
PK1
gaustad-nystrom (a pk forward pair which i think sucks together/not quick enough)
weber-josi
PK2
fisher-bourque/watson
jones-jackman
i hope we pair a quicker winger with gaustad and split nystrom and him up.
the more i look at our pk forward options the less i like them to be honest. hopefully arvidsson and hodgson can help here. it's hard to be a defensive oriented team when your pk is only 18th best. this is sort of new territory for us, as we've always had plenty of two way/defensive forwards. right now i'm not seeing it.
"[He] played a little defense there at the end just to see if he could do everything for us," said Dean Evason. "He's a real good player, both ends of the rink. He'll kill penalties, win faceoffs, play on the PP, [and] 5-on-5 he's sound."
http://www.ontheforecheck.com/2014/...s-kevin-henderson-texas-stars-francis-wathier
I see Jarnkrok on the PK. He was there last year and is praised by coaches for his defensive play. The Milwaukee coach even had him play as a defensive player for a brief period for a game.