That’s a fair point but it’s Rielly’s lack of defensive awareness that is dumbfounding. He had a good offensive game tonight but made bad decisions at critical times in his own end. The bottom line for me is his poor defensive play outweighs his offensive contribution. A veteran 10 year player who is paid to be a number one dman needs to know how to defend and put in the effort to do so. Most of the time he seems to prefer to float around the dzone looking to grab a loose puck and go instead of playing defense.
If you watch the play carefully, maybe outside of JT... everybody was out of position
Bunting lost the inside of aho forcing rielly to.move up on Aho
Nylander around the board 1000% passive
I cant only blame rielly in that play, i see easily 5 player making a mistake
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I'm not sure you're argument is founded in fact. Murray was positioned for the shot and came out to ameliate the possible deflection. These adjustments affected his save selection which likely caused the rebound. This is a good offer sive tactic as you hear all the time. Nobody in front of the goalie allows for an easy save and the goalie just vacuums up the puck.
This isn't news. This is 101 stuff.
I've said before that we will have to agree to disagree and that's the last I will say on it with you.
Have a good Sunday.
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1- Normally when youre in good position for direct shot, you will be for deflection too
2- the most dangerous shot is ALWAYS direct shot..You cant anticipate deflection butyou can adapt your positionning when you see a deflection.
In pratically 90% of the time during a shot, they re a chance of deflection... they just cant overthink about deflection and overreacting about deflection all the time... they gonna suck hard