Player Discussion: Jan Rutta
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Stormbreaker
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He's a #8 defenseman he's got the job done. I don't want to see him come playoffs but he can fill in for now.
VoluntaryDom
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Plz stop pucks
Gets himself beat up along the boards quite a bit, needs to protect himself better. I'm not against trying Gaunce as the extra D, too.
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lol you guys still want to call Rutta #8 defense, he just chased down a guy closing on the goal alone from behind and shut him down cold.
LightningStrikes
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> Be Jan Rutta
> Get traded from Chicago to the best team in the NHL
> Don't play in NHL for most of regular season after the trade until injuries
> Have zero NHL playoff experience
> Get to play over Coburn in first playoff game (Coburn has appeared in 132 PO games)
> Get 3rd highest TOI among Lightning defensemen (behind Hedman, McDonagh)
> Get highest TOI among RD (more than Cernak)
> ????
Has he found Palat's box of compromising pictures of Cooper?
TBF though he didn't look bad IMO. 23 shifts, 1 assist, +2.
> Get traded from Chicago to the best team in the NHL
> Don't play in NHL for most of regular season after the trade until injuries
> Have zero NHL playoff experience
> Get to play over Coburn in first playoff game (Coburn has appeared in 132 PO games)
> Get 3rd highest TOI among Lightning defensemen (behind Hedman, McDonagh)
> Get highest TOI among RD (more than Cernak)
> ????
Has he found Palat's box of compromising pictures of Cooper?
TBF though he didn't look bad IMO. 23 shifts, 1 assist, +2.
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Agree with everything except the last line. I thought he was our worst player by a decent margin. Everything he touched either went wrong or almost went wrong. He's weak on the puck, weak on his skates, and not good enough offensively to make up for it.
Why he got a shift with 2.5 ish minutes to go is beyond me. Hopefully Coburn is ready to go next game.
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Yeah. It's hard to really count Hedman because that game wasn't the norm for him. That was pretty much the norm for Rutta.
LightningStrikes
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Rutta was shaky, yes. The entire team was shaky after the 1st. But his play didn't directly lead to goals against.
Both Hedman and McDonagh are guilty of that though. I have no clue what Hedman was trying to do late in the game. Or on the Savard goal (both the giveaway and that sorry ass attempt on defending). Or McDonagh on the Foligno goal.
Given Rutta's high TOI he really did not make things much worse.
Sure. But we've seen enough from Hedman and McDonagh to know that this isn't the norm. Rutta is slow and weak and miles and miles below Coburn.
LightningStrikes
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Coburn should have been in the lineup, preferred side and handedness aside. 132 career playoff games > 0. Plus he's the better player by a mile.
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While I agree to a extent, Rutta was arguably one of our best players last night. Hedman and Mc on the other hand was like watching bambi on ice. You would have thought that it was there first play off game instead of Rutta, if someone who didn’t watch this team often.
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I've seen the ice-time comps, but what should probably be remembered is that, since it was a 2-3 goal margin for most of the game, trying to spell minutes wasn't an inherently bad strategy. I get it. You run Hedman and McD for 30 minutes when the game situation calls for it. Especially seeing as how Hedman a) was in his first game back in a week and a half and b) f*cking sucked last night, it's understandable that Cooper tried to guide his way through the game rolling six D's. And, no, Rutta really wasn't cause at all for the loss last night; he wasn't even on the ice for any of the goals that were scored. I think we start scape-goating the wrong people when we blow a 3-goal lead, see Rutta on the ice more than Cernak, and start saying "wtf?". Because, while I do agree that seeing that is odd, and that it's also odd that Rutta is in the lineup to begin with over Coburn, those are different problems in need of being discussed in different contexts independent of last night. 'Cuz that wasn't what lost us the game last night. Hedman looking like he was a rookie all over again, getting deked out of his skates on the second goal that really got the Jackets going, and handling the puck like a g-ddamned hot potato, is what really burned us.
LightningStrikes
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LightningStrikes
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Wouldnt be surprising if you paid attention to the charts...
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He's outplayed Schenn. Haven't liked him with anyone but Hedman, and I'm not seeing a ton of offense.
3RD is still a position we need to upgrade, but he'll due for now.
