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Pittsburgh's defensive struggles were also largely impacted by personnel. Not exactly a defensive group rife with shutdown studs.
Well sure. But we knew GMGM wouldn't do what needed to be done. At least now it could happen.
Pittsburgh's defensive struggles were also largely impacted by personnel. Not exactly a defensive group rife with shutdown studs.
Pittsburgh's defensive struggles were also largely impacted by personnel. Not exactly a defensive group rife with shutdown studs.
I'd take their defense over ours in a heartbeat.
But Lambert is known as an excellent teacher. As Milwaukee Admirals head coach, he moved Predators prospects to the NHL. Players such as Roman Josi and Nick Spaling developed under Lambert in Milwaukee and turned into high-functioning NHL players.
@ChuckGormleyCSN: Hearing that Predators asst coach Lane Lambert will join Todd Reirden as an assistant under Caps coach Barry Trotz. #CapitalsTalk
A little background from a previous article...he would run the forwards.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/predatorsinsider/2014/06/02/lambert-limbo/9868609/
I have been jealous of teams with working breakout schemes... oh for about a full decade now. How was the Nashville breakout?
We look like a bunch of boobies; depending on one guy to make a homerun stretch pass to a cherry picker, more lately just happy to up and out to no one over and over. Dale tried to implement the 90 degree chip off the half boards to a guy coming up the middle of the ice but it rarely hit the guy in stride; always a little off target. Always. I still to this day do not even know what Calle and Oates were trying to do.
Can I say it again, I am so glad they are both gone. Our defense could not get any worse in almost any aspect, uber passive uber soft so easy for forwards to enter and go anywhere they wanted fearlessly. We could not even play 2 on 1s correctly. It was hard to watch.
Remember when Phil Housley could take the puck all the way up the ice and the other team couldn't stop him? That was cool!
He did get torched defensively against the Stanley Cup winning Wings in '98 but God could he set up offensive chances. Mike Green did that for stretches—years ago now. We haven't got anything like that now. Hell, even our centers can't carry the puck through traffic without coughing up the puck.
I would trade half the team as an appetizer.
I watched him a lot when I was younger, especially with the Jets. He QB'd the PP like crazy. I hated seeing one of my favorite players get traded for him (Hawerchuk), but he was a PP wizard. I remember Selanne acknowledging him as a major reason for his rookie record. When he signed with the Caps, I thought it would be the trend for UFAs to sign in D.C.
I still want Claude Noel.
Well if nothing else, I am excited about the Caps in a way I have not been in a few years. I believe they call this feeling "hope."