Kidding? Canadian kids are born with that level of hockey smarts. Think this is Woodcroft admitting to himself that he didn’t inherit a Mensa chapter in this team.
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That’s how bad the defense has been..
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The most surreal moment is the audience slowly realizing it wasn’t planned or scripted. Goes from laughter to awkward silence real quick.
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After watching Nurse and Bouchard the last game, some remedial education is badly needed.
It's not anything they don't know. The problem is that when things get all hyped up they lose all structure. It's the exact same thing we saw against Chicago in the play-in series.
I don't know what it is... do they get high on adrenaline/testosterone and become too aggressive? Does the game just start happening faster than they can think?
Overall yes, you run coverage expectations at any all levels, this is boiling all the meat off the bone however.
This basic a level should be something that is ingrained by now, to have to physically run it, man that's a bad look.
The way they chased Gaudreau and focused only on him while allowing his teammates to get to open ice, yeeeeesh that was bad.
Hopefully they get a good reset, no matter how basic they have to be, and regroup.
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McHy is the new McDrai.
If Woodcroft has to treat this team like little babies to piss them off and encourage them to be responsible defensively, I'm all for it. Our entire defense just got single handedly dissected by Johnny Hobbit over the weekend any time they should of knocked him on his bum to stop a scoring chance. Back to square one.
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I would put Josi above most of those.
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When a team has had a coach for years that had terrible systems or lack there of it takes a lot of time to rewire their brains. When things get tough or emotional like in BOA they can tend to revert back as they haven't had enough time and practice to really nail it down in their heads. I hope they can drill it deep in their brains before the playoffs
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That wouldn't be a big surprise, to be honest. The guy has become a walking band-aid in the last couple years (fights excluded)
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So... it seems like Kassian was healthy scratched tonight.
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Well, that sucks, because I would have put him in for Bouchard for a couple games at least. I think only Drai left as an uninfected one. Germans are tough.
Edit: now watch him catch it right before the playoffs start. That would be rich.
The collective ages of our D core is probably higher than the sum of their IQs, so I don’t blame Woodcroft one iota for giving them the remedial treatment.
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Or even better, during the playoffs, and it’s used as a primary excuse for status quo in the offseason when they fail to make the second round, again
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LOL poor McDavid and Kane have to carry around JP tonight. Lets see how many whiffs he does or how many times he falls down. Yammo was hot.
It's pathetic that it comes this late, but this team actually needs to learn basic zone D.
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