Rhiessan71
Just a Fool
One day somebody will look at all the games on tape and count the number of rushes by Dmen and more but it's been my general impression from watching parts of 1000's of games that Dmen are being coached to not take as many chances and to play defense and safe 1st even at the lower levels like Jr.
Dmen certainly have less time and space to move the puck post lockout than in the clutch and grab era and before.
You're 100% correct man.
Instead of being coached to win, players have been coached to not lose for a long time now.
Look at PK Subban in Montreal. JM puts more weight into not giving up a scoring chance than he does in creating one and it's that way pretty much around the entire league.
So PK and any other dynamic player gets a harness and a leash real quick like.