Flowah
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- Nov 30, 2009
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Or maybe its not. I remember Tatar and Nyquist having these stretches under Babcock. He never dumped their minutes to single digits. Maybe that's why they're struggling (or maybe not, since everyone else on the roster is struggling to score too). He also never blocked a hardworking, big (relative to the rest of the team), fast forward's minutes despite putting up numbers (AA), and also didn't gift Z/D/A millions of minutes in their twilight years.
Not every player responds to a slump and cut minutes with rejuvenation. Whatever Blash is doing, it isn't really working, at least from an offensive numbers standpoint.
Both of their first years they were far more aggressive and physical on a very consistent basis. I was very excited for Tatar because of it. He never took a huge hit because he was shifty and fast enough but somehow he now seems to be terrified of contact and avoids it.
Since then, even under Babcock, they regressed a bit. I spoke about this already last season about Tatar. I was not happy with the way his game was headed.