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If a defenseman is rushing up the ice to the offensive corner, a forward needs to fall back to cover for him.
LD Lane Hutson - Montreal Canadiens, NHL (2022, 62nd, MTL) - Part 2
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Slafkovsky tried to, but he's not a dman and missed the play at the blue line. It's a mistake by Slaf, but the root cause was Hutson getting trapped deep and then breaking out the Pens.
Hutson also dogged it a bit on the backcheck, as you can see from the reverse angle:
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PIT@MTL: Letang increases Penguins' lead in 3rd period
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If he puts his head down and keeps skating there's a chance he can make a diving play to break up the pass.
I'm a fan of the kid, but he's going to make mistakes like this. I honestly don't what he was trying to do here - attempting to force offense late in a game down a goal, but he just got a bit overzealous.
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Slafkovsky tried to, but he's not a dman and missed the play at the blue line. It's a mistake by Slaf, but the root cause was Hutson getting trapped deep and then breaking out the Pens.
Hutson also dogged it a bit on the backcheck, as you can see from the reverse angle:
Letang finishes Malkin's pass | NHL.com
PIT@MTL: Letang increases Penguins' lead in 3rd period
If he puts his head down and keeps skating there's a chance he can make a diving play to break up the pass.
I'm a fan of the kid, but he's going to make mistakes like this. I almost don't hate what he did here, trying to force offense late in a game down a goal, but he just got a bit overzealous.
I generally agree with your take. Hutson had quite a few mistakes, misplays, and blown coverages against the Pens. He had amazing moments too, but I'd say that this game was, even moreso than Toronto's game, the worst one of his admittedly very young career.
On another goal besides the one you talked about Anderson misread a forechecker's position on the corners when Hutson cleanly gave him the puck and he wasn't expecting it so soon. Anderson panicked a bit, as he is prone to do whenever he is tightly checked, floated the puck back/got it deviated to Hutson who then flailed at it unsuccessfully only to then have trouble boxing-out an opposing forward since he didn't have either leverage or body position in his advantage.
On that same play said forward beat Hutson clean along the boards and then made a nice pass to an open forward in front of the net who one-shot it towards Montembeault's crease for a quick goal.
Now, there were a lot of mistakes made in that sequence that started with Josh Anderson coughing-up a weird floating puck back to his D, Hutson failing in his coverage, and then Savard, Hutson's D partner, also being at fault on that play by not getting close enough to the Pens' eventual goalscorer, nor tying-up his stick.
But that one sequence I've lengthily described was not a lone play this past game for Hutson. He again made a lot of incredibly positive plays out there, but I'd say that in this particular game of his he got punished a lot for his bad plays/inability to break the cycle and that the "bad" outweighed the positives he brings on this one night.
Which is par for the course for a rookie with less than 10 games of NHL experience and who is far from a finished product on the ice, especially so for a defenseman that will only turn 21 in February of next year. Nobody is 100% polished defensively from the get-go, it takes years and many mistakes even for the very best prospects to get there. And a lot of those never even do.
Keeping as level-headed of an opinion as possible, I'd say that overall, as far as Hutson's season has been going thus far, the good majorly outweigh the bad.
But last night was a little bit tilted in the opposite direction, and we'll have to learn to live with those nights untill Hutson has at least another couple of YEARS of experience with the pros, when/if Hutson irons-out a majority of his defensive kinks and starts to play a more polished game defensively.
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Man, is this kid ever fun to watch. Reminds me of when Subban finally joined the NHL. Just insane edgework and quick movements, very cerebral. Every time he had the puck it felt like it led to a scoring chance. I feel like I can't miss a Habs game nowadays, and that's a fun feeling to have.
There are a number of breadowns here:Slafkovsky tried to, but he's not a dman and missed the play at the blue line. It's a mistake by Slaf, but the root cause was Hutson getting trapped deep and then breaking out the Pens.
Hutson also dogged it a bit on the backcheck, as you can see from the reverse angle:
Letang finishes Malkin's pass | NHL.com
PIT@MTL: Letang increases Penguins' lead in 3rd period
If he puts his head down and keeps skating there's a chance he can make a diving play to break up the pass.
I'm a fan of the kid, but he's going to make mistakes like this. I honestly don't what he was trying to do here - attempting to force offense late in a game down a goal, but he just got a bit overzealous.
- The worst one I think was Caufield - just zero effort, total pylon defending in a crucial position. If I'm the coach I'm really not happy about Cole's play here
- Next worse, Hutson with the ill advised deep pinch, and as you said slow getting back. The moment Slaf missed his check, Hutson should have seen the 3-on-1 or 4-on-2 situation developing, and hoofed it back, but the urgency wasn't really there. Not nearly as bad as Caufield, offensive dmen gotta pinch, but it wasn't the best time to try it, and combined with the fairly poor backcheck, that does make it a notable gaffe overall
- Then finally Slaf, agreed that's just a minor mistake - can totally see why he went for the big hit there, but he botched it by only half committing to it. He either needs to come in hard/fast and connect, or to notice the odd-man-rush risk and back off. But overall a minor mistake, going for the hit was reasonable, he just didn't execute it well
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That's absurd. Nobody should be playing those minutes (ideally) but certainly not a rookie in game 5 of the season. The coaching staff needs to do better.
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