Took a pill in Sbisa
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Ok, so hear me out;
Once Yakupov was injured, for some reason I decided to keep tabs on the bottom-6 just to see exactly what they do. I was thinking about Lander's impressive streak and it got me curious.
From the second period, I counted how many scoring opportunities the bottom-6 produced that led to a shot, by the forwards, that A. Hit the net, and B. Challenged the goalie.
I knew they were offensively incompetent, but my god.
In the 2nd and 3rd period I counted 1 shot that challenged the goalie. It was the 3-on-1 early in the 2nd where one winger flubbed the pass to the other, and Letestu passed the loose puck into Ward's pad. That. was it.
Just as surprisingly, I counted only 2 other shots for the final 40 minutes by the bottom 6. Both came from Hendricks. The first one was just inside the blueline, where he did one of those weak dump-in wristers at the goalie, and the other was from behind the net. It's unclear whether he was just trying to center it, or looking for the unlikely bank shot (though likely if you play against us apparently).
So I'm serious when I ask, are they actually trying to score goals? They seem to be perfectly content just not having goals scored against them. They literally play as if they're killing a penalty. Most shifts were the same. Spend a bunch of time in the defensive zone, get the puck out, dump it in, battle along the boards, lose the puck.
I know we have a whole laundry list of problems with this team, but we'll never be competitive if we get literally no production from half our forwards.
Once Yakupov was injured, for some reason I decided to keep tabs on the bottom-6 just to see exactly what they do. I was thinking about Lander's impressive streak and it got me curious.
From the second period, I counted how many scoring opportunities the bottom-6 produced that led to a shot, by the forwards, that A. Hit the net, and B. Challenged the goalie.
I knew they were offensively incompetent, but my god.
In the 2nd and 3rd period I counted 1 shot that challenged the goalie. It was the 3-on-1 early in the 2nd where one winger flubbed the pass to the other, and Letestu passed the loose puck into Ward's pad. That. was it.
Just as surprisingly, I counted only 2 other shots for the final 40 minutes by the bottom 6. Both came from Hendricks. The first one was just inside the blueline, where he did one of those weak dump-in wristers at the goalie, and the other was from behind the net. It's unclear whether he was just trying to center it, or looking for the unlikely bank shot (though likely if you play against us apparently).
So I'm serious when I ask, are they actually trying to score goals? They seem to be perfectly content just not having goals scored against them. They literally play as if they're killing a penalty. Most shifts were the same. Spend a bunch of time in the defensive zone, get the puck out, dump it in, battle along the boards, lose the puck.
I know we have a whole laundry list of problems with this team, but we'll never be competitive if we get literally no production from half our forwards.
