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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Kr55 wrote on Thu, 06 April 2023 12:04 |
I'm not sure I'm seeing the same thing as you to be honest. I don't think he's intentionally trying to avoid contact out there. I do see him being caught up between 2 thinks he could do and sometimes he ends up in no mans land, but that's something we tolerated from Nurse and others for many years. Nurse only really started to look pretty competent defensively in the last half of last year in my eyes. He's still chasing the puck way out of position a lot, but oh well, just hope his D partner gets they have the responsibly to back up our best skating D that likes to jump on offense a lot.
Bouch is not polished yet for sure, I'll try to watch him defensively more, but I personally don't get an impression that he's intentionally costing the team to avoid contact.
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Yeah - I think that people who want to pick on players look to find what they're looking for. Spector is the worst for this, in part because he's got a big audience, but there's lots of hockey fans who do this. They decide they don't like a player because of a couple isolated plays or because a couple media guys rag on him, and then they look for anything that confirms their biases.
I mean, dodging hits is sometimes a pretty good decision - but if you think a player is soft then you're going to see it always as a negative.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireBobbyNicks
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