I never did like him. For a guy of his size he is such a weak player. No grit. Never plays a nasty game which his size would seem to dictate. I'm always amazed at how he skates away from any potential confrontation.
Just watched up to Ovechkin's hat trick on the power play and am baffled that no one ever thought to cover the only ****ing play they've used to score. All three he's wide open while all four defenders are across the ice jacking off.
This team is going to crash and burn hard with their inability to recognize a mistake and fix it. The first time was bad given how obvious the play is and the fact it's been their MO for like two goddamn seasons. #2 and #3 though are just embarrassing.
Neat they got a point out of the game (though I'm not about to watch the rest), but if they'd stop playing like ****ing goldfish and actually remember "oh yeah, that thing is probably going to happen again," we may have actually won it.
Just watched up to Ovechkin's hat trick on the power play and am baffled that no one ever thought to cover the only ****ing play they've used to score. All three he's wide open while all four defenders are across the ice jacking off.
This team is going to crash and burn hard with their inability to recognize a mistake and fix it. The first time was bad given how obvious the play is and the fact it's been their MO for like two goddamn seasons. #2 and #3 though are just embarrassing.
Neat they got a point out of the game (though I'm not about to watch the rest), but if they'd stop playing like ****ing goldfish and actually remember "oh yeah, that thing is probably going to happen again," we may have actually won it.
Watching the shift again, not sure why Coyle gave up possession with that wrist shot.
As a whole the team played decent. To me this was a coaching loss. The choice to continue to run the box Pk is on the coaching. That's 5 pp goals Ovi has against us this year, that's on the coaching and making no adjustment at all. Should Dubnyk have made a couple of the saves, maybe but running a more appropriate pk would have taken the opportunity away.
Baffles me that we struggle against Ovechkin recently. Boudreau's got to know what OV's going to do practically before he even does it.
Makes me wonder if Boudreau's comments about players not executing according to the plan is true... I recall Yeo saying the same thing.
No argument from me on Dubnyk. At some point he's just gotta make some saves to bail the team out.