Melkor
Registered User
Despite being tied for 1st place on the team in goals and t-5th for pts and having the 2nd lowest TOI/G on the team.
I still don't get how these supposedly world class executives and coaches get these players like Shipachev and Gusev at the age of 30 (couple years more or less) and after a couple of games say things like this with a straight face. You're basically signing a player that is a finished product at that point of his career. You either like his game or not. What's the deal with all these 'we want him to play like this/that without the puck'? This guy has never been known as a 200 foot player. He has always been about offense. How many players in hockey have ever all of a sudden become sound defensively after being defensive liabilities for their entire life? I've read his interview in Russian a couple of weeks ago and the guy is frustrated by the coach and the way his team trying to play, to say the least.
I still don't get how these supposedly world class executives and coaches get these players like Shipachev and Gusev at the age of 30 (couple years more or less) and after a couple of games say things like this with a straight face. You're basically signing a player that is a finished product at that point of his career. You either like his game or not. What's the deal with all these 'we want him to play like this/that without the puck'? This guy has never been known as a 200 foot player. He has always been about offense. How many players in hockey have ever all of a sudden become sound defensively after being defensive liabilities for their entire life? I've read his interview in Russian a couple of weeks ago and the guy is frustrated by the coach and the way his team trying to play, to say the least.