 RDOilerfan
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| Goose wrote on Thu, 28 October 2021 13:10 |
| RDOilerfan wrote on Thu, 28 October 2021 11:37 |
If I am the coaching staff and I mean Tippett specifically, I am having a meeting with Koskinen and telling him to his face, that he needs to stop worrying about puck handling and thinking that he won't play unless he starts handling the puck like Smith. I personally think that is the reason he does it because he thinks he won't play unless he handles it like Smith. To put such an emphasis on working on that particular skill tells me he thinks it's an area he needs to improve on to get ice time. His job is to stop the damn puck, not worrying about making a 50 ft stretch pass to a streaking McD like Smith can. Do I think it's kind of cool Smith can do that, sure but is it critical to the game? Hell freaking no.
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Makes me think that maybe the messaging from Tippett has been the opposite and that he wants Koskinen to get better at playing the puck more. If he and Smith are going to split time this year, whether by design or due to injury, there would be benefit in terms of their styles being more similar. If Smith did what he does, and Koskinen just stood in his crease the whole time, that would mean the defence would constantly need to be adjusting their thinking about puck retrieval and zone coverage.
Not to say that Koskinen could ever become Mike Smith in terms of puck handling, but I could see the coaches asking him to take an approach more similar to Smith's.
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I am sure you are right. Tippett clearly values Smith's puck moving so when Koskinen is in there, I get why he would want him to try to do at least some things similar to Smith so your defense doesn't completely have to change depending on who is in. But he's asking Koskinen to try to do a skill he's just not good at. I just think it's not the right way to look at it because it costs the team. He just stays in his net, they come away with at least a point and in 3 on 3 or a shootout, I am taking a team with McD and Leon every time to win it.
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