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Abby-Nielsen-Helm
Today, despite Abby's PP goal, they were awful.
Goal 1 - Helm-Nielsen-Abby - Abby took nobody and watched the pass go right by him to Malkin on goal one.
Abby
Goal 2 - PK - Abby-Larkin - Quick pass past Abby gains the zone and the Kessel speeds past Big E.
Goal 3 - AA-Larkin-Mantha - Mantha cheated toward's Daley's guy and left his late man (Malkin) alone.
Goal 4- PK - Helm-Nielsen - Nielsen got outmuscled by Crosby with a stickcheck in the slot. Crosby scores.
Over his last 25 games Nielsen is 4-3-7 -10
Over his last 18 games Abdelkader is 4-0-4 -8 (despite #1 unit PP time.
Over his last 25 Helm is 1-5-6 -9
Yes, they often draw tough assignments. But they're getting beat fairly routinely.
In the short term, this line will be broken up because Helm and Abdelkader are out for Sunday's game.
And long term, I'd guess Glendening returns to a checking line.
But looking our our lineup, wouldn't we better if Nielsen was used offensively?
We're sitting here with Frk and Mantha as some bullshit 2/3rds of a 4th line.
Slip Nielsen there and it's an attack line.
Then Glendening centers with Helm and Abby.
Nyquist-Zetterberg-Bertuzzi
Tatar-Larkin-Athanasiou.
Mantha-Nielsen-Frk
Helm-Glendening-Abdelkader.
And stop worrying about the f***ing matchups.
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Today, despite Abby's PP goal, they were awful.
Goal 1 - Helm-Nielsen-Abby - Abby took nobody and watched the pass go right by him to Malkin on goal one.
Abby
Goal 2 - PK - Abby-Larkin - Quick pass past Abby gains the zone and the Kessel speeds past Big E.
Goal 3 - AA-Larkin-Mantha - Mantha cheated toward's Daley's guy and left his late man (Malkin) alone.
Goal 4- PK - Helm-Nielsen - Nielsen got outmuscled by Crosby with a stickcheck in the slot. Crosby scores.
Over his last 25 games Nielsen is 4-3-7 -10
Over his last 18 games Abdelkader is 4-0-4 -8 (despite #1 unit PP time.
Over his last 25 Helm is 1-5-6 -9
Yes, they often draw tough assignments. But they're getting beat fairly routinely.
In the short term, this line will be broken up because Helm and Abdelkader are out for Sunday's game.
And long term, I'd guess Glendening returns to a checking line.
But looking our our lineup, wouldn't we better if Nielsen was used offensively?
We're sitting here with Frk and Mantha as some bullshit 2/3rds of a 4th line.
Slip Nielsen there and it's an attack line.
Then Glendening centers with Helm and Abby.
Nyquist-Zetterberg-Bertuzzi
Tatar-Larkin-Athanasiou.
Mantha-Nielsen-Frk
Helm-Glendening-Abdelkader.
And stop worrying about the f***ing matchups.
.
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