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Little miracles boys, little miracles.

It's amazing how much better it's been since we stopped the drop pass at the blue line strategy.
 
Well if they can continue get some goals off that Zubov style liberation pass up the seam from Gonchar that will be a big help. Just bypass the traditional PP set up time and try to score directly off the rush which is this team's strength anyway. Too many of their zone entries have been designed to barely get them across the blueline with possession rather than threatening the net immediately.
 
Stars99Lobo37 said:
Still a nightmare.
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I wonder if they could score if given 11:50 minutes all at once.
 
Symptomatic of having no one who directs the flow of play from up top.
 
This team still lacks a real threat from the point. No one is scared of a Goose or Daley slapper. This let's goalies play deep in their net to react laterally quicker and defend crashing the net better. Defenders can play our forwards and leave the points unchallenged. It's a huge issue that needs to get addressed in the off-season.
 
MetalGodAOD said:
This team still lacks a real threat from the point. No one is scared of a Goose or Daley slapper. This let's goalies play deep in their net to react laterally quicker and defend crashing the net better. Defenders can play our forwards and leave the points unchallenged. It's a huge issue that needs to get addressed in the off-season.
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It's causing other problems too. Our response to that has been Seguin playing up on the point a lot on the powerplay. Somewhere he should not be at all.
 
MetalGodAOD said:
This team still lacks a real threat from the point. No one is scared of a Goose or Daley slapper. This let's goalies play deep in their net to react laterally quicker and defend crashing the net better. Defenders can play our forwards and leave the points unchallenged. It's a huge issue that needs to get addressed in the off-season.
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Sounds like we need Connauton!
 
glovesave_35 said:
How about we scratch Nemeth and put KCon back in so we can have an outside shot at improving the PP? Sounds like a plan.
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Scratch someone who's played well defensively to put someone in who will almost certainly allow a bad goal on the outside chance he effects the PP right now? No thanks.
 
Scratching Gonchar is the correct answer.

Nemeth & KConn have at least played together in past in some capacity.
 
Bkennedy said:
Scratch someone who's played well defensively to put someone in who will almost certainly allow a bad goal on the outside chance he effects the PP right now? No thanks.
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It was :sarcasm:

FrailSwan said:
I'd rather scratch Gonchar. Scratching Nemeth takes away one of the few actual defensive pieces we have.
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Frozen Failure said:
Scratching Gonchar is the correct answer.

Nemeth & KConn have at least played together in past in some capacity.
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No, scratching Gonchar is the wrong answer. Gonchar has been damn near great the last 20-30 games. He is actually getting his shot through and creating rebounds a good amount of the time. He's also one of the best defensemen we have at making a great first pass out of the D-zone.

At this point in time Gonchar is >> Connauton. The desire to put in the latter over the former screams weird HFboards prospect phenomena.
 
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/1189/gamelog/

http://www.hockey-reference.com/players/g/gonchse01/gamelog/2014/

Please show me how Gonchar has been great over the past 20-30 games.

It appears he was a stunning -2 in a 7-3 win. He has 6 shots on goal for the entire month of March.

He is slow as hell. I have seen nothing spectacular out of Gonchar in the past two months. His ice time has been dropped consistently over the past two months too.

He's having the same problems Cole & Horcoff are having. Can hack it, but not contributing on the score sheet in any significant manner.

How is it crazy to take a risk on a kid who might contribute more? Preferably one that actually has knees left and isn't conscious of the fact that he can't shoot as much because he can't get back to defend?
 
Bkennedy said:
It's causing other problems too. Our response to that has been Seguin playing up on the point a lot on the powerplay. Somewhere he should not be at all.
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Exactly, Seguin should be on the weak side half wall ready to shoot like at the beginning of the season. Now of course the problem then was that everyone tried to force the puck to him no matter what, but that doesn't mean that's not the right position for him. We need Seguin closer to the net as a scoring threat and someone up top who defenses respect the possibility that they might shoot and the rest of the team to be looking for Seguin as the final pass in a build-up, not the first option.
 
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