i mean i'm pretty sure thats exacly what he meant. it is a good play, but it's a straight line skating with no lateral movement at all, not much pressure or puck skills nescessity, followed with a 8foot lateral pass with no one in between. those types of play are effective yes, but doesn't require any sort of skills beside good top end speed and rarely happens because it was a bad neutral zone cover from the other team that caused that play to happen and when they do happen, how many times a goalie gets beat by a shot like that? would you have bring this play into the conversation if gallagher didn't score?
Not trying to take anything away from Danault, but they aren't anything alike. Poehling has way better edge and lateral movement, uses his body movement to create fakes to beat defenders ( Danault doesn't do this he's very predictable) Poehling has a MUCH better vision and can make cross-ice pass thru traffic. Will poehling be able to bring that overall package and skillset into the NHL, nobody knows right now. But if he does, he will be a much better player than danault in the Ozone.
