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Adam wrote on Tue, 08 November 2022 22:37

RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 08 November 2022 15:23

I am hoping the coaching staff shows JP a video clips of Hyman last game. Go to the net, park your big body in there, create chaos, good things will happen. Above all, if you are going to be on McD's line, get him the puck quickly, go to the net with your stick on the ice and look for a pass. Keep it simple. Hyman plays a very simple, straight line game that works. No reason JP who's a big man and skates well can't play similar to Hyman. Straight lines, go to the net!

For Yamo. Shoot the puck. Stop taking bad penalties and shoot the damn puck. You are on the 4th line at the moment, your job is to keep it simple. Get pucks in deep, forecheck hard, put everything on goal. It's not show time on the 4th line. IT's simple hockey, get everything you can on goal, crash the net, look for rebounds. If Yamo takes another bad penalty, I would bench him for at least a period, maybe more. Their PK is struggling, the last thing they need is more lazy penalties. He's one of the worst for taking bad penalties. The message isn't getting through to him. Time to make an example. It has to stop!

Foegele and his whole line. See above. McLeod, you are 6'2, almost 210 that skates like the wind. The fact he has only 9 shots in 13 games with that much speed is mind boggling. Take it hard to the goal, shoot the puck. Foegele. Get the damn puck out of your zone. You aren't McDavid, you are Warren Freaking Foegele. Get the puck out. Get pucks on goal, go to the net.

When you are in the top 6 and you want to try more pretty goals, fine. When you are in the bottom 6 and get 12 mins a night tops, keep it simple. Straight lines, skate hard, forecheck hard, finish a check, get pucks on goal, look for rebounds.


Once again, I disagree whole-heartedly on the role of Bottom 6 forwards. Their job is to outscore the opposition - usually the third and fourth lines of the other team. It doesn't matter how they do that, whether with finesse, or hard forechecking, or grinding out ugly goals or beating the other team with great transitions, or end-to-end rushes. Your job is just to score more goals than you allow.

I will agree that they need to be better, as does everyone, but if they do it pretty or ugly, it makes zero difference. Just get it done. For what it's worth, I think with guys like McLeod, Yamamoto, Holloway in the bottom six, there's enough talent to expect them to outperform other teams depth, and to be able to out-finesse those players on other teams too.

What it comes down to ultimately is confidence, good systems play (and a good system) and execution - with a dash of luck.


Overall I agree with this, it would take some pressure off the top 6, but we have enough depth with Hyman and RNH having a good year and Kane... I am not too worried about the scoring myself... We scored more than enough last night to win that game, it's the penalties that we really need to cut down and obviously need to figure out how to kill off a PP..... It would be nice to see them hold a team to under 35 shots for a change, or Soup have a good game for us.... It will be hard on back to back nights for them to play as sharp as they usually do, but cut down on the mental mistakes and I think we have a good chance to keep this game close.



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