GDT: #10 | Flyers at Bruins | Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | 7:00 PM | NBCSP, 97.5 FM

[Gregor Samsa]

Low scoring games can be great if the goalies are playing phenomenally and/or it’s an intense physical affair. This was neither

 

[deadhead]

It def helped in that 5 on 3 the bruins had early, but usually not a recipe for success if the team has to continually be blocking shots

It helped Vegas win a Cup in 2022-23.

Not for every team, but it is a viable strategy to reduce opponent's scoring opportunities, shots that don't make it to the net can't be deflected or screened.

Blocking shots can also lead to odd man rushes the other way.

 

[Embiid]

It def helped in that 5 on 3 the bruins had early, but usually not a recipe for success if the team has to continually be blocking shots

Tortorella got away with this with the Rangers and Lundqvist until he didn't bc of injuries to the D (blocking shots if I recall correctly) and just general burnout. The guy has a one track meathead mind. Hate this org for thinking this dino is the right guy at the right time....clearly not!

 

[ponder719]

Tortorella got away with this with the Rangers and Lundqvist until he didn't bc of injuries to the D (blocking shots if I recall correctly) and just general burnout. The guy has a one track meathead mind. Hate this org for thinking this dino is the right guy at the right time....clearly not!

I keep saying this, and their actions have never disabused me of the notion: The Flyers have spent the better part of the last half-century trying to win the 1976 Stanley Cup, and they will persist in this effort until they succeed.

 

[Beef Invictus]

It helped Vegas win a Cup in 2022-23.

Not for every team, but it is a viable strategy to reduce opponent's scoring opportunities, shots that don't make it to the net can't be deflected or screened.

Blocking shots can also lead to odd man rushes the other way.

Vegas leading the playoffs in goalscoring by an even wider margin than their defensive numbers seems important, yeah? They won with the best offense and a top 5 defense. Not vice versa.

Goals win games and Cups, not hanging on and hoping for the best as the Flyers aim to do.

 

[deadhead]

Vegas leading the playoffs in goalscoring by an even wider margin than their defensive numbers seems important, yeah? They won with the best offense and a top 5 defense. Not vice versa.

Goals win games and Cups, not hanging on and hoping for the best as the Flyers aim to do.

If you play good defense, you don't have to score as many goals.

Defense is an attitude, offense is talent.

 

[Beef Invictus]

If you play good defense, you don't have to score as many goals.

Defense is an attitude, offense is talent.

Scoring goals is a form of defense. Defense is not a form of offense.

Offense is also an attitude. One that Tortorella does not want. Neither does management.