RW Matvei Michkov (2023, 7th, PHI) Part 6

[Kegs]

They were 5 vs 4 opponents, Michkov was preparing for offense, and the Isles defensman saw it and didn't support the attack. It wasn't Michkov's fault that 4 Flyers couldn't protect their goal vs the same number of NYI players. It's probably what Michkov tried to tell Torts, but of course Torts knows everything better...

Torts does know better. His man walked in and he walked out of the zone. His team didn’t have possession. It was brutal defensive coverage. He was trying to cheat offence. He deserved to be coached after that play.

The Flyers don't need to trade their best asset. They need to figure out why they have a coach who doesn't win and rubs people the wrong way.

Are u serious? They are a bottom feeder team with not even close to enough talent to be competitive. The coach is not to blame.


These are the growing pains young players have to go through some times. Michkov is a beauty. A tremendous talent. In this instance he missed his defensive coverage. It is what it is. He shouldn’t be traded. That’s ridiculous. Still torts had every right to coach him.

 

[jj cale]

Hey, he wanted to go to Philly.

Well, Suck it up and get through these times.

 

[Kshahdoo]

Torts does know better. His man walked in and he walked out of the zone. His team didn’t have possession. It was brutal defensive coverage. He was trying to cheat offence. He deserved to be coached after that play.

Yeah, he knows better, that's why they can't score a goal for 180 min already...

 

[Mattb124]

It's exactly how they destroy prospects' development. "He must play system. He must do it right. He must follow rules". And then boom, you get another average NHLer instead of potential superstar. Average at best. Michkov should play Michkov's hockey not that Torts' shit. It's how he's become Michkov after all.

He will have a long and decorated career in the KHL if that is how he chooses to play.

 

[Kshahdoo]

He will have a long and decorated career in the KHL if that is how he chooses to play.

I doubt it, I'm pretty sure there will be some of the NHL teams that take him from the Flyers and let him play his way...

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Shutout in three straight games. Must be Michkov’s fault for not playing the right way.

 

[wetcoast]

I doubt it, I'm pretty sure there will be some of the NHL teams that take him from the Flyers and let him play his way...

Sure for a while and is anyone else finding the irony here in that the NHL has incorporated some of the Soviet system style of play that helped launch them into the real hockey world in the 70s?

I was a huge fan of 5 man units that was you know a system and if any player in the system didn't play the system it wouldn't work.

At the end of the day NHL teams , supposedly like teams everywhere, are there to try and win games not appease certain segments of followers with offensive stats just because.

 

[Nabrules]

All part of the process! Not worried at all!

 

[Hanji]

Wow. The difference between this thread and the Philly board is night and day. The Flyer posters have had it with Torts, his system, his development of Michkov, etc. There's zero creativity is his coaching.