Which Ranger has the best chance to score on The Michigan?

[nyr2k2]

Surprised Zibanejad doesn't have more votes. Dude always has the puck on his stick behind the net and absolutely has the hands and creativity to try it. Other than Panarin who doesn't really play behind the net, he's our slickest player.

Kreider is the obvious #2 but I think he's kind of settled in at the posts in front. And as long as he's pinned to Zibanejad's hip that's not going to change.

 

[will1066]

Kreider

Believe he is the only one who has tried it on this current squad.

He flubbed it into a North Dakota

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Laffy

 

[80shockeywasbuns]

Writing off Kreider, cause he hasn't tried since he barely missed. Mika doesn't have the mindset, but I could see him trying the pass Zegras did two years ago.

Panarin, Laf, and Tro feel most likely.
Looking at the future, Gabe, I guess.

I can’t ever see Mika doing it because his stick is longer than a pool skimmer

 

[EdJovanovski]

Lafreniere, IMO has the best hands on the team. Tho he hasn't shown it consistently.

But if it were to happen, I'd bet it being someone we wouldn't expect like Vesey or Pitlick. Like Marek Malik's shootout goal.

No way do Lafs hands even come close to Panarins

 

[Harbour Dog]

I'd say Panarin, but I'm also of the mind that every player in the league is capable of doing it with their eyes closed, so could be anybody who decides to give it a go for whatever reason.

 

[NickyFotiu]

I can't say. I see some good guesses but Id like to look at guys stick curves and stick handling in practice to make a guess. If Gretz was still playing he would be my guess. Or Kovy. Or Reijo.

 

[SA16]

Hopefully nobody considering it's a country club move only done by players who haven't won anything.

 

[80shockeywasbuns]

Hopefully nobody considering it's a country club move only done by players who haven't won anything.

 

[NickyFotiu]

Hopefully nobody considering it's a country club move only done by players who haven't won anything.

LOL how did Torts sign in to SA16s account? Watching Bedard to it I thought it was a pretty high percentage shot given where he was on the ice. Kid is a really quick thinker. Nobody had a chance to react.

 

[tlk]

Shesterkin (not on Miller tho).

 

[Filip Chytil]

Gotta be Jonny on the spot

 

[SML2]

Im going to sound like a dinosaur here, but why is the league ok with the Michigan in general? The play involves coming around the corner of the net at high speed with the blade of your stick inches from the goalies face. I can't play the puck with a stick above the shoulder out between the dots but I can do this? And even if it were ok for the pros, what about thousands of less skilled kids tring to emulate it out there? How long until some kid takes a stick in the eye? I feel like it's a very unsafe play in general because the only real defense for it is to have your face in front of it when it comes.

 

[Psycho for Perreault]

It’s a move little kids can do. Naturally we have no hope of anyone on our first place team.

 

[Irishguy42]

It’s a move little kids can do.

If this were the case, then NHL goalies, the best of the best, would have a 100% save percentage against such childish tactics.

Ain't nothing "little kid" about it. A goal's a goal.

 

[Mandar]

Cause Jimmy can do anything…….its Jimmy

 

[80shockeywasbuns]

Im going to sound like a dinosaur here, but why is the league ok with the Michigan in general? The play involves coming around the corner of the net at high speed with the blade of your stick inches from the goalies face. I can't play the puck with a stick above the shoulder out between the dots but I can do this? And even if it were ok for the pros, what about thousands of less skilled kids tring to emulate it out there? How long until some kid takes a stick in the eye? I feel like it's a very unsafe play in general because the only real defense for it is to have your face in front of it when it comes.

its a small bit of risk for an insanely cool play that is very rare. Yeah the goalie could get whacked in the helmet or poked in the eye which would be horrible but they also let skaters get violently thrown into the glass 100 times a game and trucked in open ice. If goalies don’t want to get a stick to the helmet they need to stop dropping down

 

[SA16]

Im going to sound like a dinosaur here, but why is the league ok with the Michigan in general? The play involves coming around the corner of the net at high speed with the blade of your stick inches from the goalies face. I can't play the puck with a stick above the shoulder out between the dots but I can do this? And even if it were ok for the pros, what about thousands of less skilled kids tring to emulate it out there? How long until some kid takes a stick in the eye? I feel like it's a very unsafe play in general because the only real defense for it is to have your face in front of it when it comes.

Because it generates huge excitement and highlights every time it happens.

 

[CasusBelli]

K'Andre Miller.
But it will be on Shesterkin.

He’s got the brains for it.

 

[Barnaby]

Funny feeling it’d be Vesey.

Panarin has flash and talent, so he’s the smart money.

Honorable mention: Laf. Young enough to actively look to do it. Skilled enough to pull it off.

 

[Larrybiv]

I think othmann. Likely gonna be a young guy comin up. Kreider did try it once but even with other chances to try it he hasnt attempted it again.

I think THIS more than anything else. A young type player, in which they practiced it over and over when it became an official "thing". That said, it's gonna be Laffy. And my way "out there" 2nd guess is KK. If and when he ever finds out where the NET is located.

 

[Larrybiv]

Hopefully nobody considering it's a country club move only done by players who haven't won anything.

Really is, not to say that it isn't cool. But what's next? a player doing the same thing at their end of the ice and just balancing it through the neutral than offensive zone? Umm, I'm a firm believer that the puck should basically be on the ice. This isn't Jai Alai.

 

[EdJovanovski]

I think THIS more than anything else. A young type player, in which they practiced it over and over when it became an official "thing". That said, it's gonna be Laffy. And my way "out there" 2nd guess is KK. If and when he ever finds out where the NET is located.

Kakko is the last player on the team I could see doing it, not for lack of skill but because of the fact he would probably feel so self conscious after missing that he’d retire then & there.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

No one on this team can even beat a goalie clean or finish on a breakaway.

 

[bhamill]

I have to be honest, I will never understand the fascination with this move, and I'm baffled no one ever saw it done before it was "The Michigan." A goal is a goal no matter how it's scored, so I have nothing against it, but this is a real low percentage play unless the circumstances are just right.
And yes it is a kids move, we used to do this shit, and similar, when we were we were kids playing pond hockey in the 70's. Especially when goalies are flopping around on the ice like kids often do. We'd also get the puck on our blades the same way and fling it at the net from out front to get it over bodies on the ice blocking a normal shot.