Govechkin
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- Nov 10, 2010
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Getting back on track
In both senses of the term.
Oates handedness thing sounded good on paper, more opportunities to shoot on the rush and pinch on the walls. Problem is, as we saw last week, a collapsing umbrella on D starting at the blue line is very tough to break. They have two guys outside deep that will cut off the charge up the boards, and the chip and chase is interfered with right after the dump. It keeps shots to the outside and limits rebound attempts, as the defender has body position to keep the charging Cap from bodying up on the puck on their forehand.
Easy to see, hard to solve, right? We've been watching this handedness thing for so long we forget what it might look like to, you know, radically change the line combos.
We have a logjam at RW, and a lack on LW, correct?
Ward out, Laich out, Green out, Erskine out. Hope Brown or Latta makes a move for line 4.
Next year:
Kuzy-Grabo-OV
Penner-Backstrom-Brouwer
Chimmer-Mojo-Wilson
Whole Lotta-UFA that wins draws-Fehr
Split up Carlzner, Sign a real top-4 LD that plays D, make the youngens fight for a spot with Orlov.
Bonus of that fourth line is Fehr can shoot off the faceoff, OV can pull double duty as 4LW on set plays/desperation time, and that second line is a little more average in speed, so they can keep up/slow each other down. Chimmer and Mojo had some chemistry at some point, right? Could see Wilson bump some people/minutes.
New coach, new management, we can spend some money on line 4 if we ship out Laich and Ward, and plenty more on the back end for some real D and depth.
Anyone want to run the cap numbers? I'm not a smart man...
In both senses of the term.
Oates handedness thing sounded good on paper, more opportunities to shoot on the rush and pinch on the walls. Problem is, as we saw last week, a collapsing umbrella on D starting at the blue line is very tough to break. They have two guys outside deep that will cut off the charge up the boards, and the chip and chase is interfered with right after the dump. It keeps shots to the outside and limits rebound attempts, as the defender has body position to keep the charging Cap from bodying up on the puck on their forehand.
Easy to see, hard to solve, right? We've been watching this handedness thing for so long we forget what it might look like to, you know, radically change the line combos.
We have a logjam at RW, and a lack on LW, correct?
Ward out, Laich out, Green out, Erskine out. Hope Brown or Latta makes a move for line 4.
Next year:
Kuzy-Grabo-OV
Penner-Backstrom-Brouwer
Chimmer-Mojo-Wilson
Whole Lotta-UFA that wins draws-Fehr
Split up Carlzner, Sign a real top-4 LD that plays D, make the youngens fight for a spot with Orlov.
Bonus of that fourth line is Fehr can shoot off the faceoff, OV can pull double duty as 4LW on set plays/desperation time, and that second line is a little more average in speed, so they can keep up/slow each other down. Chimmer and Mojo had some chemistry at some point, right? Could see Wilson bump some people/minutes.
New coach, new management, we can spend some money on line 4 if we ship out Laich and Ward, and plenty more on the back end for some real D and depth.
Anyone want to run the cap numbers? I'm not a smart man...