Good pass or lucky dump, what say you.

[FlyingPhi]

Good pass or just a lucky dump? This should be silly.

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[Coffey]

He’s the master of the backhand pass. Hes done nicer passes in the past.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Drai is nutty

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Nice flip. And nice finish by that rich kid.

 

[tarheelhockey]

He looked right at Hyman and then passed the puck to him. Nothing lucky about it.

 

[Kane One]

That’s a great pass

 

[Stealth1616]

This is only lucky if Drai doesn’t continuously do this. Best passer in the league and it’s not really close.

Wish people would watch him play, you still get the “product of McDavid”garbage

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

thats the longest slowest pass i'e eevr sseen can't believe it worked. D seemed to have forgotten about Hyman, I bet his dad bought them off

 

[LokiDog]

Sorry you were expecting conflicting opinions… really not sure why. Draisaitl looks at his player and passes him the puck. Kinda hard to have differing opinion.

 

[Coffee]

Classic Draisaitl

 

[Czechboy]

Hold on.. let me pull out a classic troll line here.lol

Ahem, clears throat...

'Tell me you haven't seen Drai play without telling me you haven't seen Drai play'

I'll see myself out.lol

 

[Three On Zero]

He looked at Hyman for a few seconds and passed him the puck, what kind of contrasting reactions should we expect?

 

[FlyingPhi]

Sorry you were expecting conflicting opinions… really not sure why. Draisaitl looks at his player and passes him the puck. Kinda hard to have differing opinion.

C'mon. You know why. Complimentary McDavid and Drai posts always draw criticism.

I'm pretty sure you were being facetious in your response.

Just wait. Trolls get baited. Post it, and they will come.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

“Never, ever, pass it up the middle. Except Leon, Leon’s allowed to.”- coaches.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

That's the Dallas Stars "cherry picker" play designed to stretch the zone.

Or whatever Sweden did to Canada in 2004. "Torpedo" play?
Whatever you wanna call it.

It's pretty deliberate and used by plenty of teams. Drai just made it look cool on his backhand.

 

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

Bad pass.

It didn’t hit his tape clean. Worst passer in the league.

 

[1989]

C'mon. You know why. Complimentary McDavid and Drai posts always draw criticism.

I'm pretty sure you were being facetious in your response.

Just wait. Trolls get baited. Post it, and they will come.

You post one of Draisaitl's somewhat better than average but not even one of his best passes and expect what, exactly?
It was a decent pass that (technically speaking like any other play) required some luck to connect but it got there and Hyman got on his horse and scored.

I can't even tell if you're an Oilers fan.

 

[zar]

This is an average pass from Draisaitl.

 

[FlyingPhi]

You post one of Draisaitl's somewhat better than average but not even one of his best passes and expect what, exactly?
I can't even tell if you're an Oilers fan.

I'm an Oiler fan, absolutely. I was posting the video because I thought it would be something that might be thought of a somewhat nothing play, even though I think of it as quite a great play.

I thought it might stir up some debate on it's difficulty rating, so to speak. Maybe even some people who have played junior or higher level hockey would chime in.

Question though: how did the thread title get changed? I didn't change it... can mods change thread titles?

 

[Drake1588]

He's a great player having a Hart Trophy-caliber season. He pulled off that pass as intended.

 

[5 14 6 1]

That's just the league MVP going beast mode. 12 points in 5 games without McDavid in the lineup this year