Skip Bayless
The Skip Bayless Show
- Aug 28, 2014
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y'know its funny there was a time where the habs had way less talent on their roster, worse shooters, and they'd pepper the net with 40+ shots (to score 1-2 goals). Now we have a team with some legit shooters, real young talent and no one wants to shoot.
In countless ways, hockey is always about balance. MSL really needs to start preaching shooting and things should improve. The possession and zone time we get hasn't been bad in these low shot games, its just the fact that we're doing nothing with our time.
Take for example the play where Slaf used his body to protect the puck high in the zone, the slipped it to Armia (who missed). We should be working those plays all game. set plays to get shots on net. Its the best way to get defenders moving out of position and who knows you might score on a few.
The problem is because were not really in clean possession, we are in possession but still battling for time and space still.
Nothing is being generated because we aren't really creating, we are mostly fighting to keep the puck, which is not real puck possession.