Triumph
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- Oct 2, 2007
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This is all 100% correct.
Only thing I can add is posters saying Severson is correct "because it's McDavid", is a dopey comment. The X's & O's dont change because of the player. I dont care if the man with the puck is Pavel Bure in EA Sports NHL94, the defensive fundamentals of hockey dont change.
The X's and O's absolutely do change because of the player. If a defender knows a guy is a shoot-first guy, he should cheat more towards a shot. If he's a pass-first player, maybe cheat towards the pass. With McDavid, he made a mistake, but that's one of the many ways how tremendously skilled players can beat defenders - the defenders get focused on him because he's so talented one on one, they're looking to help out their partner and get tunnel vision about the other players around him.
I think someone said upthread that Greene and Severson also ended up on the wrong side of the ice relative to their positions. Not sure how that happened either. However it did, that added to the difficulty of the play.
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