Frosty415
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I don't know, personally I think Vegas will light Jones up.
And MAF will continue to be Hasek against the Sharks.
And MAF will continue to be Hasek against the Sharks.
This is correct. Why would Deboer lie about it and paint himself in a corner? He could easily deflect as acquisitions are DWs job not his.Usually you get the same sort of cliche when the team is trying to smokescreen potential acquisitions. Vague, Doug-Wilson-specialty stuff like "This is the team we have moving forward and we're happy with the guys we have." Rarely do they out-and-out lie and say "we never even looked." Lies end up coming back to bite the team because it makes reporters more likely to press and prod in the future. There's an art to saying something that says nothing instead of saying something that digs you a deeper hole to get out of later on.
True but wasn't it PDB that said they didn't look? Not DW... Maybe I misread. A coach is going to lie. He's done it plenty already as far as injuries etc...Usually you get the same sort of cliche when the team is trying to smokescreen potential acquisitions. Vague, Doug-Wilson-specialty stuff like "This is the team we have moving forward and we're happy with the guys we have." Rarely do they out-and-out lie and say "we never even looked." Lies end up coming back to bite the team because it makes reporters more likely to press and prod in the future. There's an art to saying something that says nothing instead of saying something that digs you a deeper hole to get out of later on.
Because our offensive system sucks. Everything is predicated from point shots and teams have figured out that pressuring Burns at the point makes it hard for us to score, especially without Pavelski. Add in no Karlsson leads to Dillon, Vlasic, and Braun having to shoot off target every time we setup in the zone and it's no wonder goals have dried up. We don't have enough net front presence and size to play that way, but also don't have enough speed and skill to play the speed game like Vegas.I’m not defending Jones for all the softies he’s let in but I will say if this team doesn’t check themselves defensively then it wouldn’t matter if we had Patrick Roy in goal. You can’t give up 6-8 odd man rushes/ breakaways a game and expect to win. Stop turning it over in the neutral zone and stop trying to force point shots through and that number goes down. You can see how much our offense struggles without magic hands Pavs out there.
Because our offensive system sucks. Everything is predicated from point shots and teams have figured out that pressuring Burns at the point makes it hard for us to score, especially without Pavelski. Add in no Karlsson leads to Dillon, Vlasic, and Braun having to shoot off target every time we setup in the zone and it's no wonder goals have dried up. We don't have enough net front presence and size to play that way, but also don't have enough speed and skill to play the speed game like Vegas.
We are basically a team stuck in limbo that doesn't know what it wants to be. Adding Boedker 2.0 to this roster (remember when everyone roasted me for calling him that prior to the TDL lol) did nothing to change that. This team needs players that can play inside the dots as opposed to soft perimeter wingers like Donskoi and Nyquist if the offensive system being employed now is what we are going to continue to be (I see no reason that PDB would magically change).
They have needed to do that since before the season started......Yep, aside from Thornton, Hertl, Kane and Timo none of the guys can establish a good net front presence. You’re right, everything is originated from the point which teams have caught on to. We just don’t have a good enough cycle game down low. The team needs to work on generating more chances below the faceoff dots. Nothing will change though, they’ll continue to live and die at the blue line and give up odd man breaks. It really sucks that this talented team is subjected to playing this vanilla system.
They have needed to do that since before the season started......
It's funny because they're not winning games anymore lol.Jumbo says the only stat he's seen is that theyre winning games.
You big beautiful son of a gun that's only because you're so goddamn good that you've been able to overcome **** goal tending for a good portion of the games this season.
Yep, aside from Thornton, Hertl, Kane and Timo none of the guys can establish a good net front presence. You’re right, everything is originated from the point which teams have caught on to. We just don’t have a good enough cycle game down low. The team needs to work on generating more chances below the faceoff dots. Nothing will change though, they’ll continue to live and die at the blue line and give up odd man breaks. It really sucks that this talented team is subjected to playing this vanilla system.