There were much nicer wins than these two last year, but I had so much fun watching us beat the Blue Jackets 8-1 (or 8-2?) two different times last year.I never pass up a chance to post this picture and quote:
I think Bratt would've stayed, Meier wouldn't have been acquired though, and I'd much rather have Meier.
It’s from the movie Inception and also SouthPark making fun of it.
He did its a big favor actually. Be careful what you wish for. I sure am glad we didn't get him.
Ah. A movie I never saw so obviously I didn't get the reference nor the joke.
Fox running the Rangers power play and Kreider tipping pucks down low. The Hurricanes copied it with Burns up top last year. When you have an extraordinarily agile and fluid player on the top, his movement cutting from side to side keeps the defense backing off and adjusting to his shot possibilities, and then the net front guy down low finds the soft spots to the side and front of the net and the QB does a shot pass, or a plain shot if he sees a screen develop if the defense reacts to the guy playing Kreider's role and crosses the goalmouth to cover. The guy in Foxes position also has the option of the one timer on the sidewall. When you have that kind of creativity and movement up top, it opens up so much.
Very good movie. Would recommend!
He should also surely improve with time on that shot from the bumper that Oshie and Bergeron are and were so good at. As someone pointed out above, it’s a difficult skill because you are usually making the shot a little off your back foot, with the pass coming behind you as you pop further out to the open area in the high slot; like a fall away jump shot in basketball you’ve been moving away from the net to get position, yet speed and accuracy on the shot are essential. It’s counter intuitive to what most shots require where you are leaning into the puck and generated more from the shoulders and arms than the lower body. Very few players are really good at it.
Meier is definitely not the playmaker either of those two players is. Part of me wouldn't mind Hughes in that spot because he can score and also set up Toffoli if he is playing the bumper.
I would totally love to see the Blue Jackets shot in the head in front of their wife and grandbabies, then have their already dead head flattened by a rolling SUV.
