Aceboogie
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- Aug 25, 2012
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You think Fayne was better defensively than guys like Simpson and Gryba? To me he was struggling a lot last night. There was nothing assertive about his game and he got beat wide atleast once. Gryba ended up playing over 19mins while Fayne got less ice time than everyone on D.
Ideally we would have Fayne and Gryba playing #6 \ #7 on the team with Gryba drawing in on semi regular basis.
I thought he was on par with them. About same amount of mistakes as them. But none of the tire fire moments in our end happened ith him on ice IIRC. He was assertive by jumping up in play, pinched hard down low a couple of times (and one pinch near the goalline kept puck in and almost led to a goal). He was also making some pretty ballsy passes on break out instead of going off glass and out. He made a number of fumbles with the puck but Ill chalk it up to preseason rust. Atleast he had mindset to make risky plays
We need a lot more of those plays. Our D need to pinch WAY more. Watch a Calgary game and their D are almost forwards in O zone. They pinch a ton