joshjull
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How do you make a line irrelevant for most of the night? play Ennis at center
I would argue the probelm was more Leino on that line and Leino and Ennis together. IMO they just don't mesh at all.
You know what I hated about tonight? No passion/hustle and little physical play.
Yeah, Regier's fingerprints are still all over this team. **** can this guy before it's too late, Terry.
Can't hit what you can't catch. The Wings were moving the puck beautifully and rarely held the puck long enough to get hit.
Something you'd expect with a lineup containing Flynn, Porter, Grigs, Stafford, Kaleta, McCormick, Ott, etc.
Or give that first guy more of a green light to go lower and put a TAD BIT of pressure on Detroit's D.
That was mind blowing.
I don't think letting the first guy in a 1-2-2 go lower would have changed much in that game. Though generally it could help.
I still think our defensemen did a solid job last night. They tried to keep it simple and looked somehow "fresher" than our offense lines (except GGF).
I wonder if anyone else hade the same feeling?
I thought the dmen on the whole played well and didn't get much support from the forwards.
I also think dump and chase gets a team moving forward more instead of trying to forcing things in the neutral zone.You can't look at the dump and chase strictly as voluntarily giving up puck possession. If you do it right, it's an effective way to make sure the puck stays in your offensive zone. I think we have a handful of puck possession players, but the grander theme is that we need to be crisper and faster to immediately stretch opponents out and become threatening.
Yep, Like the 2005-07 edition of the team.
I have my doubts that it's going to happen with the current group of forwards....... Hopefully, our prospects have these attributes.... And the coaching is gearing towards this direction.
We do have enough forwards (particularly the youth) in the mix to be a better possession team. But how often they will all be in the lineup is anyone's guess.
Vanek looked disinterested and mentally checked out. Espo on XM today thinks we gave Vanek the captaincy in an effort to preemptively strike against Vanek pouting. That's a stretch, but Vanek looked a little bit.... Sulky tonight.
I thought Vanek and Hodgson took a bit to get going. Once they did get anything going it was usually killed by Stafford. Drew just doesn't have the offensive IQ that Pommer's does to keep the flow going with those two. Nor does he have the physical game to open up space for those two like Foligno does.
Part of the problem in that game was Rolston had some bad combos together like Stafford on the top line and Leino/Ennis together.
The PP cost us the game. Two plus minutes of 5-on-3 and not even a dangerous chance. Have to win a special teams battle against Detroit, because they're so stout at 5-on-5. You aren't beating Detroit going 0-for-7 on the PP. Pretty simple.
Very true. We score on those PP and the confidence of this very young team grows and impacts their play.
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