GDT: Game 15 - CBJ vs Dallas Stars November 6, 2018 7 p.m

[Hello Johnny]

Murray and Jones are great together.

 

[Maylo]

EN 5+ mins? Wow

He did this already before, i think 7 minutes to go even. "To get intencity from flat team." smth like that.

 

[aRussian]

I'm just happy the CBJ didn't turtle with the lead. More players were on board this game

 

[major major]

Great game. PP was good, Bob was great.

 

[Jaxs]

Definitely more of a team game, no passengers tonight.

 

[thebus88]

I would truly ENJOY that!

TBH I don't think Anderson would very much though.

My money is on Benn starting a fight with Anderson in the 3rd.

And/or Polak takes a run at somebody.

Well it was Polak taking a run at Anderson.

 

[thebus88]

I'd love to see Gavrikov in the CBJ lineup. But has our 6/7/8 been bad really? Harry and Kukan are both doing decent for #6 guys right now, IMO.

They've been up and down.

There are times they are a liability on the ice. I'd like to see Clendening much more. Its not like these guys have earned the icetime/spot.

 

[NotWendell]

I loved the separation Jones and Werenski!

 

[thebus88]

Well it was nice to see "Norris Murray" be rewarded/finish it off.

I think we're to the point where Bjorkstrand comes in for Wennberg next game. He was quite invisible again, will not be missed on the PP, and we have quite a bit of capable center depth at the moment that can actually win a faceoff.

Hannikainen and Sedlak are having more of a positive impact.

 

[Maylo]

So Torts split Seth and Z after 1st period.

 

[Theo Von]

Definitely more of a team game, no passengers tonight.

Yup.

To add onto this, I believe it was the first game all season where every single player (except Duclair and Sedlak) had over 10:00 TOI. Impressive.

Good things happen (wins) when Torts uses a full bench instead of shifting to playing a 3 line game in the 3rd period. Huh. Who would’ve thought...

 

[mikeyp24]

Murray and Jones are great together.

I had been saying since their 1st year together and their pairing on team NA that Murray can be great with the right partner. Happy to see it showing.

 

[Crede777]

Murray's first goal of the season came from less of a shot and more of stretch pass. But if anyone can hit a target with a saucer pass from about 200 feet, it is Murray.

 

[Maylo]

This is cute. (Not Savard stashe)

 

[major major]

This is cute. (Not Savard stashe)

I'd like to see this worked into the goal celebrations. It looks better than Dubois' patented "takes mouthguard out" celebration.

 

[MAHJ71]

Must say.. Dallas was pretty good at 6v5 despite not scoring. Kept the puck in for awhile.

 

[Jovavic]

Shit posting this team works

 

[blahblah]

Watched the second period, looked good. Probably the player situation to watch this season is Murray.

 

[Speedy Sanderson]

Best game of the season so far for the Jackets. Checked really hard and Dallas coughed-up the puck a bunch. Doubt we see Sonny or Oliver in the lineup this weekend.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Nice work by Wennberg on Foligno's goal, outworking the defender and making a quick pass to a teammate on the move into a scoring area. Remember last year when he had a brief surge as the net-front presence on the power play? I know he's soft, but maybe the tonic for that is to send him purposefully into crowded areas instead of into space. I don't expect him to become a crash-and-bang-er, but maybe forcing him to engage and taking away his time to think instead of react is the way to go?

 

[blahblah]

I don't expect him to become a crash-and-bang-er, but maybe forcing him to engage and taking away his time to think instead of react is the way to go?

I tend to agree that he needs a change in mentality. He has all the tools, but he reminds me of early Malhotra. Malhotra, outside of faceoffs, had issues with being competitive. That all changed almost over night and he ended up sticking with Nash. While the situation was a little different, there was a huge change on Atkinson almost overnight. He suddenly got it and became competitive in all three zones and became more than just a player on the rush.

He needs to approach each shift differently than he does now, but not I'm sure we can do that with situational changes.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

He needs to approach each shift differently than he does now, but not I'm sure we can do that with situational changes.

I get that's the kind of thing that starts internally, but just wondering aloud if there's a way to encourage it via coaching? And I don't mean the coach telling a player to do it, but rather via lineups and one-ice responsibilities and the like, trying to force him into situations he might not, initially at least, choose for himself.

 

[KJ Dangler]

I get that's the kind of thing that starts internally, but just wondering aloud if there's a way to encourage it via coaching? And I don't mean the coach telling a player to do it, but rather via lineups and one-ice responsibilities and the like, trying to force him into situations he might not, initially at least, choose for himself.

You encourage it by putting players like him on a game to game basis . If he doesn’t do the things needed , and compete , put him on the bench , rinse and repeat . The only time he’s remotely played well in the past 2 years in when Torts gets to the end of the line with him . He doesn’t have that desire to be the best , like Pld does . He needs someone to constantly be on his ass

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

You encourage it by putting players like him on a game to game basis . If he doesn’t do the things needed , and compete , put him on the bench , rinse and repeat . The only time he’s remotely played well in the past 2 years in when Torts gets to the end of the line with him . He doesn’t have that desire to be the best , like Pld does . He needs someone to constantly be on his ass

I allowed for that but was also wondering if there was a way to address it from a schematic standpoint as well.

 

[major major]

You encourage it by putting players like him on a game to game basis . If he doesn’t do the things needed , and compete , put him on the bench , rinse and repeat . The only time he’s remotely played well in the past 2 years in when Torts gets to the end of the line with him . He doesn’t have that desire to be the best , like Pld does . He needs someone to constantly be on his ass

Well that or the opposite of that. The best Wennberg we've seen, two years ago, had no one on his ass. It doesn't look like Torts screaming at him, however insufficient in your view, has led to improvements.