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GoAwayPanarin said:
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If you want to say that no team plays slower I might be able to buy that but thats even hard to quantify with out really watching a shit ton of other teams.
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I don’t particularly care too much about these statistics because it has nothing to do with whether a team is quickly advancing the puck, just thousands of isolated skating speeds. Trochek is one of the faster guys in the league according to these same numbers but just because he has 200 (or whatever) 20 MPH bursts it doesn’t mean the team is smoothly and quickly transitioning, or playing quick. Puck movement is just as, if not more, important than skating speed in isolation. Yes, you need guys who can attack with speed (like the Hintz goal I commented on the other night) to back defenders up and create space, but being able to move the puck quickly and smoothly is probably more important. We have forever been just a really ugly passing team. We do not move quickly and seamlessly up the ice as a unit. Utah does. Colorado does. Ottawa does. It’s very, very evident when you watch them. Like it immediately stands out, the fluidity of their puck movement which allows them to play fast. You don’t need to be flying over 18 MPH if you’re never slowing down. It’s the passes into skates, behind or too far ahead, the bobbled receptions which slow you down to the point where it doesn’t matter if you have more individual straight away speed, because you can’t move the puck. Matt Tkachuk was named like the second slowest player in the league but he’s a massively integral part of Florida’s attack and he doesn’t look slow. He doesn’t have bursts over 20 MPH, but it’s irrelevant if he never has to slow down because the puck movement is crisp. We are a horrible puck moving team. I firmly believe our puck moving is like stone aged compared to most teams.
 
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LokiDog said:
I don’t particularly care too much about these statistics because it has nothing to do with whether a team is quickly advancing the puck, just thousands of isolated skating speeds. Trochek is one of the faster guys in the league according to these same numbers but just because he has 200 (or whatever) 20 MPH bursts it doesn’t mean the team is smoothly and quickly transitioning, or playing quick. Puck movement is just as, if not more, important than skating speed in isolation. Yes, you need guys who can attack with speed (like the Hintz goal I commented on the other night) to back defenders up and create space, but being able to move the puck quickly and smoothly is probably more important. We have forever been just a really ugly passing team. We do not move quickly and seamlessly up the ice as a unit. Utah does. Colorado does. Ottawa does. It’s very, very evident when you watch them. Like it immediately stands out, the fluidity of their puck movement which allows them to play fast. You don’t need to be flying over 18 MPH if you’re never slowing down. It’s the passes into skates, behind or too far ahead, the bobbled receptions which slow you down to the point where it doesn’t matter if you have more individual straight away speed, because you can’t move the puck. Matt Tkachuk was named like the second slowest player in the league but he’s a massively integral part of Florida’s attack and he doesn’t look slow. He doesn’t have bursts over 20 MPH, but it’s irrelevant if he never has to slow down because the puck movement is crisp. We are a horrible puck moving team. I firmly believe our puck moving is like stone aged compared to most teams.
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I've said this for a while. The Rangers players are not particularly slow. They just play slow.
 
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