Disagreed completely. I'm huge on microevents, so I'd like to think I'm an "expert" (
) at isolating players and analyzing lol. I did it with Hainsey, Zaitsev, Gardiner last year and Rielly, Barrie this year.
Maybe you're a bigger/taller guy like a Muzzin/Holl who can absorb a hit to make a play.
Smaller players utilize their stick to move the puck effectively. Look across the league and almost all smallish players do this. Krug, Dumba, Dahlin, Ellis, etc all do this as well. Heck, even Karlsson does it.
Why on earth would you lose the puck
AND get knocked down out of the play? I'm a smaller guy too and I would do the same. Obviously you absorb the hit
if you need to, but the best option for the smaller players is to look for quick passing options (I.e which way to move the puck around the boards) and then get out of the way so that you can be a receiving option.