Monctonscout
Monctonscout
- Jan 26, 2008
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Can we put this to bed, I find it very annoying...
The group of "Desharnais bashers" as most on here call them, seem to be living on some parallel universe where his line gets "sheltered minutes" despite playing on the top offensive line an with the top scoring winger.
How can you get sheltered minutes when the opposing team(as much as they can) tries to put out their best checkers or shutdown defense to try and shut you down as a line? That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. the funny part is that his numbers are better on the road...33 points in 41 games vs 19 points in 38 games at home...where an opposing coach can much better controls who is out against 51-67 most shifts given they play 17-20 minutes a night.
If you want to shelter a player(like Galchenyuk-Eller-Prust/Gallagher the lock out year), you send them out almost exclusively against 3rd or 4th line/3rd pair matchups and often in the offensive zone. This limits their ice time to 10-12 minutes a game as you can only insulate a player on limited ice time given how much top players and top pairs play in the NHL. Briere got a lot of those types of minutes last year.
...and the shame of it, Therrien sending out his best scorer on offensive zone draws...what horrible coaching! I'm sure Cooper only sends out Stamkos on defensive zone draws an saves the offensive ones for Nate Thompson.
On the Habs the most Non-sheltered minute are Desharnais' line, targeted by other teams to shut them down, and Plekanec playing against top lines and also being expected to produce on offense.
The group of "Desharnais bashers" as most on here call them, seem to be living on some parallel universe where his line gets "sheltered minutes" despite playing on the top offensive line an with the top scoring winger.
How can you get sheltered minutes when the opposing team(as much as they can) tries to put out their best checkers or shutdown defense to try and shut you down as a line? That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. the funny part is that his numbers are better on the road...33 points in 41 games vs 19 points in 38 games at home...where an opposing coach can much better controls who is out against 51-67 most shifts given they play 17-20 minutes a night.
If you want to shelter a player(like Galchenyuk-Eller-Prust/Gallagher the lock out year), you send them out almost exclusively against 3rd or 4th line/3rd pair matchups and often in the offensive zone. This limits their ice time to 10-12 minutes a game as you can only insulate a player on limited ice time given how much top players and top pairs play in the NHL. Briere got a lot of those types of minutes last year.
...and the shame of it, Therrien sending out his best scorer on offensive zone draws...what horrible coaching! I'm sure Cooper only sends out Stamkos on defensive zone draws an saves the offensive ones for Nate Thompson.
On the Habs the most Non-sheltered minute are Desharnais' line, targeted by other teams to shut them down, and Plekanec playing against top lines and also being expected to produce on offense.