guymez
The Seldom Seen Kid
- Mar 3, 2004
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Good post.I'd have those as IQ plays because in both instances you have to make a read before you make the play.
For both plays within about a millisecond you have to process where the attacker (or attackers) are on the ice, which way they shoot, how much back pressure the back checking forward is providing, where your D partner is, and how close you are to your own net and then immediately make the right play while still in position to do so.
I think he flops on 2 on 1's because he can't make these reads in time, so laying down is the default "hope this works" option which looks a lot better than doing nothing. Similarly on his shit gaps, if he can't make the reads in time then before he knows it he's probably too deep and the lane for the attacker to make a play is already there.
I think that this also explains why Nurse ends up in no mans land defensively so much of the time.
He just cant process the game fast enough to make the correct read.