GDT: Game 44 - 1/6/2019 - Capitals @ Red Wings - 5 PM ET FS-D

[Cyborg Yzerberg]

Wait, we have a new messiah, and it's not Hughes anymore? Who is the flavor of the day now?

It’s 100% Hughes.

 

[StNickFan]

I had no idea Kronwall had strangely small feet.

I was watching at work so I didn’t have any sound but I was wondering why they kept showing kronwalls skates lol so that’s all it was? Showing his small feet?

 

[pz29]

It’s 100% Hughes.

someone mentioned a dude named Kaapo. I guess it is because Finland has just won the WJC.

 

[Backhandbeauty]

Wait, we have a new messiah, and it's not Hughes anymore? Who is the flavor of the day now?

Who cares? The tank is going so well we'll have our pick of flavors. Yay for losing. <3

 

[TheMule93]

I was watching at work so I didn’t have any sound but I was wondering why they kept showing kronwalls skates lol so that’s all it was? Showing his small feet?

No they were talking about the innovate type of skate that he is wearing, shown here

 

[izlez]

I noticed yesterday that at times going through the neutral zone on the PP, Detroit was doing more of an east/west drop pass to create more room with speed rather than the typical drop pass directly back.

I don't know if it was a fluke, something teams have been doing for a while now that I haven't noticed, or something brand new, but it seems like a nice little wrinkle to get zone entries on the PP.

 

[SCD]

AA with the lazy loser play topping off his lazy night cherry picking at the blue line

AA's game really isn't lazy, he just avoids physical contact. He has been credited with 14 hits this season, and I think that is a little generous. AA pressures people with his stick, never with the body. His game is limited to finding open ice and speed.

The games he looks lazy in are often the ones the other team doesn't give him time or space to use his speed. He won't fight through checks, he would rather avoid them. AA doesn't create his own space.

At this stage in his career, he is not going to change his game.

 

[jkutswings]

He won't fight through checks...

...he would rather avoid them.

Those are two different things, though. I'm fine with a player preferring to avoid contact (assuming he has the talent to still be effective while doing so). But that's not the same thing as never being willing to do so if push comes to shove.

(I'm not necessarily labeling AA one way or the other here. Just making a distinction.)