12/20/2023 0 Comments Pro timer shot timer![]() ![]() For an offensive player below 10 minutes is really nothing to try and make an impact, so why are we keeping him in the line-up? Is it just a safety net if (/when) Oshie gets hurt and they need someone to take over his ~19 minutes per game?Īnother L against a team fighting for Playoff spot is bad, even if they gained a point. 5 minutes? Is it worth it? Phillips only played 6 minutes and i didn't see him much after that horrible turnover. I like giving Lapierre a chance while Dowd is out but. Perhaps it's time to move him to a smaller role. Oshie was fine (although snakebit) early but he has gone downhill recently. Top-line generated some chances but still that's not nearly good enough from them if you are stacking up that line. Mantha - McMichael - Protas -line was great. I thought the Caps carried the play a lot in this one and somehow the high-danger chances ended 5-on-5 at 12-6 to Panthers. They are fine at keeping teams on the outside and limiting their shots, but they constantly have breakdowns which lead to hilarious amounts of high-danger chances. Team defense is slightly better than it was at the start (bar was very low) but still defensive breakdowns galore. I think it's a mental position but when you get back to practice and your coach keeps telling you to do what you're not sure about, you end up in this weird position where you can't trust your body and you're not sure if you should trust your coach, and splitting the difference makes you bad. I feel like a lot of those "Kuemper should have those" goals is because since broken Holtby the message has been to play deep and try to do a Lundqvist, but Lundqvist is a Hall of Fame goaltender who shouldn't have been able to really do what he did a lot of times. When they all start sharing similar characteristics you have to assume it's because there's a common denominator, and it's been so constant for so long that if they didn't get Korn back for 2018 there's no goddamn way they're winning anything. Lindgren similarly has learned to play smaller than his large and athletic frame. If you asked me today how tall Darcy Kuemper was I would have said, like. I feel like when you look at Kuemper and Lindgren in their introductions to the team they had individual styles and quirks that seemed different, and as time goes on they've become goalies that have replicated soft areas we've seen in the team's goalies before. It comes down to form and function, not that goalie is my strong suit. I don't honestly think I've seen that once. Put it this way: last year's Ovechkin would take a borderline okay pass and at least backpedal into a long wrist shot instead of the slapper to get around the challenging D. Ovechkin's not the dude to let that keep him out, never has been, but if there's anything lingering right now I really think we're seeing it manifest in all the shots he isn't taking that he normally would because a lot of his return passes to Carlson on the PP are unexpected and kind of keep screaming "I don't want to do that right now please", because we've seen him absolutely blast knuckle pucks before. Way more months than you want something like that to last, but it wasn't limiting so I kept playing because I loved it. Not quite enough to stop, just enough for it to be something you rub and generally experience on any strong wrister, and it lasted for a few months. It was never so limiting that I couldn't play, but virtually every shot that I took with effort hurt. ![]() ![]() Look, I'm no NHL pro by a f***ing long shot but I was in a charity game and bounced off somebody and did the thing you're not supposed to do: was falling in a seated position and put both my arms behind me, did something weird to my top hand's wrist. ![]()
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