Spooner st
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You even can see it in the full screen slow motion Twitter video you provided.Coyle following the puck the all time adapting as the puck came in slowly, and even while the puck hit the skate he readjust the skate to the right to try to get more speed from the puck. If that's not control... I understand that different people looking at the same thing will see different things. Just my opinion.This post proves the opposite, if anything.
If we assume that his movements were a conscious effort and not just natural movement as the skates hit imperfect ice (it's literally impossible to keep a skate 100% perfectly straight for any real difference on "used" ice), then he should've kept his skate pointed towards the outside. Why? Simple geometry. It would've "pushed" the puck in front of him, not behind. By straightening his skate, the puck never gets in front of him and actually goes behind him to a place where he obviously doesn't want it. If the puck goes somewhere you don't want, by definition, that's the opposite of control.
(With regard to your last sentence in particular: literally every time the puck hits one's skates, it gets redirected. That is in no way indicative of "control". Control implies purposeful redirection to an intended destination.)
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