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USA dominated? What game did you watch, Chris?
US' formula all day long was, "Pass, pass, turnover."
Point was not to absolve the rest of the team and the coaching of any stupidities they might be doing. They are bad. But I'm totally against saying that Gally is solely a victim here. As a star player, you have to create something. He doesn't have the puck enough? Sure, but when he does, he doesn't do enough with it. It's not like he's creating tons of spaces, and gives passes to guys who has open nets and they shoot wide. Not happening right now. He did have some shots but just shoots wide. Gally is just not doing enough. But they surely have more problems than him that's for sure.....like I keep saying. But we should have the right to criticize a Habs property. Pretty sure that if he'd be a Leafs or Bruins, we would have a whole lot of fun.....yet, that would be wrong as well.
Speaking just for myself, I think Galchenyuk has been very good and would acknowledge as much if he was Leaf or Bruin property.
Like I said earlier, there is a serious lack of hockey IQ and creativity on that team. It is only compounded by peewee style breakouts and structure. Galchenyuk is in a system that simply isn't conducive to enabling skilled players to carry the puck as there is almost no puck support and skaters are easily funnelled into traps.
The only knock on Galchenyuk is that he is deferring too much to his teammates instead of forcing the play. Unfortunately this is a short tournament and it sometimes takes a while for players to understand their respective roles on the team. It will be interesting to see if he takes things into his control with the tournament on the line against the Slovaks. In Sarnia he knows that he is the star player and when he acknowledges as much with this team I believe he will bring his play to another level.
Speaking just for myself, I think Galchenyuk has been very good and would acknowledge as much if he was Leaf or Bruin property.
Like I said earlier, there is a serious lack of hockey IQ and creativity on that team. It is only compounded by peewee style breakouts and structure. Galchenyuk is in a system that simply isn't conducive to enabling skilled players to carry the puck as there is almost no puck support and skaters are easily funnelled into traps.
The only knock on Galchenyuk is that he is deferring too much to his teammates instead of forcing the play. Unfortunately this is a short tournament and it sometimes takes a while for players to understand their respective roles on the team. It will be interesting to see if he takes things into his control with the tournament on the line against the Slovaks. In Sarnia he knows that he is the star player and when he acknowledges as much with this team I believe he will bring his play to another level.
See, I don't get your last paragraph. If the idea is to acknowledge that the system played or the players he play with totally annihilates the way he is supposed to play or can't show his elite talent, and I'm not saying you are wrong by the way, it is a good analysis....why would it against Slovakia? Why would you now expect him to "takes things into his control"? 'Cause the opposition is much weaker? Well for me, it's not a sign of a player shining when it counts the most even if that game will probably mean life or death for them. The real games to be played was to get some points against Russia and Canada. To actually not have to play the Slovakia game like if it was a gold medal game. Even if the Slovaks aren't slouch, everyboyd expects a team like the US to have more than 1 goal. But that doesn't make them suddenly a great offensive powerhouse. Wouldn't make Housley a great coach either. And bringing his play to another level....well you do hope it happens against the best of them. Like Subban did today. Not saying Subban needed to be incredible, US shots weren't that great. But he was at his best today. Gally being at his best against Germany and the Slovaks will not mean that he ended up playing a superb tournament. Unless he builds from this and has a terrific quarterfinal and so on. But because of how weak this US team is....I don't expect him to have a longer time than the quarterfinal game but we never know.....
By the way....this tournament is not the end of the world as far as what's next for this or that player. I do expect Dougie Hamilton to be a really good player for the Bruins and yet...he looks rather ordinairy. And everybody remembers that great thread on the main board about "Who's better than Justin Pogge"...and so on. So it is not always a sign of what's next.
The point that I am trying to make is that there is a big difference between playing for his OHL team where he is expected to lead because he is the undisputed star on the team. This enables him to take chances and be more creative in the offensive zone because he HAS to be the one to create chances. There is a different dynamic on a national team as all of his teammates are the top scorers on their respective teams. He feels too comftorable in deferring to them as they have the credentials that he respects in the o-zone. Over time his confidence will grow and realize that he is far better than any of his teammates.......he just hasn't played with them long enough to establish in his own mind where he actually fits in the hierarchy of the team. It is almost a case of being too respectfull of his line mates.
Maybe with the tournament on the line he will acknowledge his superiority and say **** it and play balls out.
Like I said and was said a lot...US doesn't have Canada depth. So add Noesen, Kerdiles who would have been there and add Boucher and you are not talking about the exact same team. Matteau, well I was not a fan of his game lately so not too encline to bash the US team for not bringing him on board though he would not have done worst so far than pluggers like Vesey and Biggs....
On a bright spot, Galy is tied for 3rd in scoring and ahead of Yakopov even though the US has 2 goals in their last 2 games. Not bad. Wonder why Housley isn't loading up Galy's line? Strange coaching decision in most people's opinions.
Gibson was the best US player today.
Gally was great at times and invisible at other times. When was he visible you ask? When he got to carry the damn puck. When he didn't, he did nothing, because his linemates do nothing.
Trouba is pretty awesome though. May be the second best defenseman drafted this year after Murray (who I think is the second best player in the draft still).
Also, for Canada, still not sure why we took Murphy over Ceci. Terrible decision.