RodTheBawd
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Clearly an overreaction based on 2 games, but their board does not seem pleased. "unmotivated" "dead legs" "disengaged".... sounds familiar.
Clearly an overreaction based on 2 games, but their board does not seem pleased. "unmotivated" "dead legs" "disengaged".... sounds familiar.
I think it's a typo."Elite"
I mean, we had said all along that if Staal played most of his career in a major hockey market, he'd have been torn to shreds for how he plays most nights
I think it's a typo.
Meant to read E-lite, as in a shadow of his former self.
I hear you. Those teams that finish top-2 in their division year after year, and make it to the Stanley Cup finals and conference finals in back to back years really do have some soul searching to do.
I read somewhere the other day. Keith Yandle get's a higher % of offensive zone starts (70%) than pretty much any other regular D in the entire NHL. He also goes against some of the weakest competition.
I don't get to watch the Rangers enough, but it seems like the coach (right or wrong) has zero trust in Yandle in defensive situations or in their own zone?
I watched the 1st game and thought Staal looked engaged and pretty decent. I watched last nights game and he looked pretty bad IMO. No jump, turn-overs on the PP, just sticking his stick out instead of skating after a guy, etc.. Looked like he was in slow motion most of the time.
I read somewhere the other day. Keith Yandle get's a higher % of offensive zone starts (70%) than pretty much any other regular D in the entire NHL. He also goes against some of the weakest competition.
I don't get to watch the Rangers enough, but it seems like the coach (right or wrong) has zero trust in Yandle in defensive situations or in their own zone?
He's so powerful he can literally slow time!!
Granted that it is only angry fans on a message board, but fwiw, there was a main board thread a week or two ago and general consensus was that Vignault was the only coach who apparently even comes close to being as bad as Thierrien.
yeah, they do. ask their board. they've never been a legitimate threat to win a Cup, even the year they made the final (though they were close).
they give up huge assets and mortgage their future every single year (MSL, Yandle, Staal), misuse them, and lose them for little or nothing.
Glass played more than Eric last night. Yandle plays bottom pairing minutes behind M. Staal.
yeah, they do. ask their board. they've never been a legitimate threat to win a Cup, even the year they made the final (though they were close).
Or, they've done a cost/benefit analysis that tells them he's got more value in offensive zone starts than in defensive zone starts. He does have 31 assists, after all.
Yeah, I'm sure that's part of it. Play players to their strength. Even so, it doesn't mean that they trust him in his own zone as well. I have no way of knowing for sure so it's definitely just speculation. It's probably a little bit of both.
Either way though, it can explain why Staal is playing more than Yandle (SG's post) in a particular game. Whether it's because they don't trust him or they are just playing players to their strength, it will depend on game situations. On the Season, the Rangers have a pretty balanced ES workload among their D. Klein: 17:43, McDonaugh: 17:40, Staal: 17:32, Girardi: 17:27, Yandle: 17:16.
For Clarification, the 70% was 5V5 and 11 of his 31 are on the PP. That doesn't change your point though.
Looks like Staal continued his dominance of the Islanders over the weekend.
Looks like Staal continued his dominance of the Islanders over the weekend.
He was very good last night (except for faceoffs) as well.
Granted that it is only angry fans on a message board, but fwiw, there was a main board thread a week or two ago and general consensus was that Vignault was the only coach who apparently even comes close to being as bad as Thierrien.
That's really weird how by-far the worst coaches in the NHL are employed in Montreal and New York City.
Uh...well...not exactly...Even Scotty Bowman would be accused of being a terrible coach under withering attention of Rongos and Habs fans on an international stage...every gamble that doesn't pay off being yet more "proof" he can't coach...and of-course, if you don't take risks, you're accused of being a terrible coach that holds back his players and his team.