Game 6: Nashville Predators @ Phoenix Coyotes |1-28-13| 7PM

[Vip]

Wow Boedker.. Looking awesome. Power play.

 

[CC96]

What a save by Rinne! Yandle destroyed that 6 on 5 as usual

 

[ArizonaCoyotes19]

should be 5 on 3

 

[Boedker89]

What a save by Rinne! Yandle destroyed that 6 on 5 as usual

He's been playing great this game. Just needs to give up that fake slapper, it simply doesn't work for him anymore. Boedker has such nice moves, wish he would shoot more often.

 

[Plub]

So that Boedker guy is pretty good.

Good game so far. Much more of the style we are use to seeing the 'Yotes play.

 

[zz]

Yandle the turnover machine. I can't watch him trying to enter the zone.

 

[Material Defender]

I love how Johnson holds his glove up high. If i was a goalie i'd do the same.

I personaly do! Kelly Hrudey used this technique, saying it was easier (and quicker) to move his glove from up to down than the opposite, which is quite logic.

Don't know if that makes me a better goalie tho...

 

[RafaNadal]

Yandle is playing good tonight guys. Just stop it.

 

[SniperHF]

Lol, predators doing a full court press style PK. And it's working. Guess the Yotes forget how to go D to D.

 

[Plub]

Yikes, Yandle has been playing better but that move just now against four preds that went back the other way was just silly.

 

[Boedker89]

Yikes, Yandle has been playing better but that move just now against four preds that went back the other way was just silly.

He reminds of me playing NHL 13 against computers, trying to do everything himself

 

[SniperHF]

Sully is so sneaky in the corners.

 

[Plub]

Korpedooooo

 

[Vip]

WOOOO Korpi

 

[Swat Ultra]

Korpii

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

We look a lot better. Need to keep it up for another 20 and have it carry through the rest of the week.

 

[XX]

Up 2 going into the third with an AHL goalie

 

[pacerhimself]

Was at the game but not feeling too hot so I had to head home before the 2nd. Catching the rest on TV. Good on Korpi to put that one home.

 

[Boedker89]

Wtf did anyone else see that kid in front of the camera?

 

[lockstock]

I remember last year, Schlemko was playing better and was being described as a poor man's Yandle. I keep seeing him getting better and doing a lot of the little things Yandle used to do. I think a better way to describe them is that Yandle is a drunken rich fool's Schlemko.

 

[XX]

I keep seeing him getting better and doing a lot of the little things Yandle used to do. I think a better way to describe them is that Yandle is a drunken rich fool's Schlemko.

Yandle's game is nothing special. It's easy to imitate. You just have to score and contribute offensively to make it worth it to the coaching staff. Mike Green has made a career out of this. So did Deron Quint. Doesn't mean for a second that they can't be immediately replaced. If this team was 100%, Yandle is #1 on the list of "things we can afford to lose."

 

[XX]

Johnson & Johnson getting it done

 

[pacerhimself]

That was quite a screen on that one!

 

[SniperHF]

Yandle's game is nothing special. It's easy to imitate. You just have to score and contribute offensively to make it worth it to the coaching staff. Mike Green has made a career out of this. So did Deron Quint. Doesn't mean for a second that they can't be immediately replaced. If this team was 100%, Yandle is #1 on the list of "things we can afford to lose."

Really taking this a bit too far. If the team was 100% Yandle is a huge cog in the transition offense where a ton of the goals are generated from. OEL is great but he doesn't have that same game in transition, he's far more cerebral. The entire make up of this team changes without Yandle, probably for the worse without the forward personnel to compensate.

Using the popular example lately, a single Ryan O'Reilly doesn't bolster the forward crop enough on offense to make up for the loss of Yandle's transition game.

 

[XX]

If the team was 100% Yandle is a huge cog in the transition offense where a ton of the goals are generated from.

Not really. A good breakout pass every now and then isn't worth the trade-offs in defensive ability and toughness, IMO. Z is every bit as capable of springing the offense, yet plays far better in his own zone. The razzle dazzle of Yandle's game has a lot of people fooled. I love him as a player, but he is nowhere near as important to this team as people make him out to be.

OEL is great but he doesn't have that same game in transition

You're right, he is better.

Using the popular example lately, a single Ryan O'Reilly doesn't bolster the forward crop enough on offense to make up for the loss of Yandle's transition game.

R'OR is a statistical beast. Yandle would be easily made up for. Look into it more. He's more than just 50 odd points.