Halberdier
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- May 14, 2016
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CSW - Once again they had some brilliant shifts, but they also had some brutal shifts in their own zone. Wheeler doesn't figure out where to position himself, so he's always too high or too low along the right side. Scheifele cheats with his positioning and puck battles looking for a break, and Connor isn't strong along the boards. Also, Maurice plays them into the ice. I was flabbergasted that he played them on back to back shifts 5v6 late in the game. He has the Lowry line ready to roll but goes with Scheifele and company, maybe because they like the EN points.
Seems that I'm not watching the game alone.
For the bolded, I was just shaking my head in disbelief when I saw that. Well, they got away with that and even got an empty netter, and not for example a hooking penalty about 10 seconds before the end for Connor who had ahem... a bit active stick out there on o-zone forecheck. Not sure if it was Maurice yelling from the bench something like "easy! easy!" for him, as there was not much time left, but a o-zone faceoff with 6-on-4 could be something.