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Sheppy

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What I've been noticing is he panics when a player is closing on him. I don't know if it's a fear of being hit, but if someone approaches him with speed he just seems to make this panic pass to no one, or most times, the other team.

His spinning backhand passes are giving me grey hairs.
 
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Sheppy said:
What I've been noticing is he panics when a player is closing on him. I don't know if it's a fear of being hit, but if someone approaches him with speed he just seems to make this panic pass to no one, or most times, the other team.

His spinning backhand passes are giving me grey hairs.
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I think his whole game is off, but maybe having Zacha back in the middle again, will get his game back, they never should have been separated anyways.
 
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So now we're learning that Pasta was injured this summer as well, and couldn't train for a month and a half. That's Pasta and Marchand, you're two best players who could not prepare for the season or ramp up the way they normally do. That explains a lot about their starts to the season.
 
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PlayMakers said:
So now we're learning that Pasta was injured this summer as well, and couldn't train for a month and a half. That's Pasta and Marchand, you're two best players who could not prepare for the season or ramp up the way they normally do. That explains a lot about their starts to the season.
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This explains and confirms what many of us suspected regarding Pastrnak's play. However, that doesn't explain the poor play and disorganization of so many of the other's. I still believe there are problems here beyond the recoveries of Pastrnak and Marchand from off season injuries. But maybe that's just me.
 
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JAD said:
This explains and confirms what many of us suspected regarding Pastrnak's play. However, that doesn't explain the poor play and disorganization of so many of the other's. I still believe there are problems here beyond the recoveries of Pastrnak and Marchand from off season injuries. But maybe that's just me.
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Yep. It seems they (meaning a large group of players) came to camp out of shape. Monty said 'conditioning was a problem in camp but is not anymore.' That's a problem.

He also said the pace and intensity at practice increased dramatically when Marchand came back. That's another way of saying the pace and intensity sucked before Marchand got out there... That's another problem.

Maybe the excuse is that the captains set the pace but there are supposed to be more leaders on this team than just Marchand and Pasta.

Last year they were terrified of being bad. They came to camp determined to pick up the slack and keep the tradition going. This year, they came in feeling comfortable, relaxed, over confident...
 
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Marchand and Pasta limited who's supposed to lead McAvoy? Give me a break. Or Coyle or Carlo? Your more likely to get leadership from Swayman while he's holding out and doing his podcasts.

Pasternak will still score 40 goals in an off year. Do we even have someone else who's a lock for 20 at this point?
 
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Bradely

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PlayMakers said:
So now we're learning that Pasta was injured this summer as well, and couldn't train for a month and a half. That's Pasta and Marchand, you're two best players who could not prepare for the season or ramp up the way they normally do. That explains a lot about their starts to the season.
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I could agree with this, and Ladyfan is so close to the bench I beleive her instinct. Then, why in the hell does Monty yell at Marchand and call's Pastrnak if Boston's management knew they were both off schedule on their summer training and were not ready at the season beginning.

I don't really know what to think of this........
 
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KillerMillerTime

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Bradely said:
I could agree with this, and Ladyfan is so close to the bench I beleive her instinct. Then, why in the hell does Monty yell at Marchand and call's Pastrnak if Boston's management knew they were both off schedule on their summer training and were not ready at the season beginning.

I don't really know what to think of this........
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So why is he telling Anderson that wasn't him and he has no limitations?
 
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PlayMakers said:
So now we're learning that Pasta was injured this summer as well, and couldn't train for a month and a half. That's Pasta and Marchand, you're two best players who could not prepare for the season or ramp up the way they normally do. That explains a lot about their starts to the season.
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The bigger issue that jumps out at me from your post is that the team was banking on a 36 year old winger coming off back to back sub-70 point seasons and 3 surgeries to be one of their two best players.
 
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Bradely

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Ladyfan said:
They will never announce what his issue is while he is playing. The other team nails him a lot already ...They do not need to know the details of any injury. That would make no sense.
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I agree with you.
Was responding to Lou and in any case, something is likely wrong.
 
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