 RDOilerfan
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| Dragon_Matt wrote on Wed, 22 November 2023 12:58 |
I disagree that Nurse and Bouchard's weakness this season is overblown. Nurse likely has more of a spotlight due to his contract, but there have been dozens of times this year where they each looked lost in our end. Watch next time an opposing player skates from behind the net to the corner. They stay on the man until he crosses the trapezoid line, then they will back off and hug the close post. It HAS to be part of the d-zone design... it's the only thing that makes any sense. But it exposes us SO much when we give NHL caliber forwards that time with no pressure in our end.
This has happened repeatedly, so like you said above, coaches pre-adapted their game plan knowing what we were going to do.
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I agree with you. No one is asking Bouchard to go beat the hell out of someone or knock guys into the 15th row, they just want him to play average defense.
It's utterly baffling why fans like Adam take up the position needing to defend Bouchard and attack others, saying they don't have hockey knowledge when a fan DARES to want Bouchard too:
- Hustle back for a puck when it gets turned over.
- Not do a pinch when it has next to zero chance of being successful.
- Tie up a man in front of the goal in your own zone.
- Covering a wide open guy who's standing in the slot.
- Going into a corner and battling hard for a puck instead of getting pushed off like he wasn't there.
All these things are what an NHL defenseman should just do automatically. Some guys do certain things better than others but no one is even asking him to be elite at ANY of those things, just be average. When there is a potential pinch opportunity, and the other player is closer to the puck, he can see you coming, you aren't in a great position and your chances are success are almost nothing, especially when you see all the forwards in the O zone in front of you so you have no one covering for you if you miss, don't take the pinch. Just back off. It's not a failure on Bouchard, doesn't mean you are asking him to stop being offensive. It's just playing the odds and playing smart.
So I don't understand why some see it as attack on Bouchard when he doesn't do what I listed off every single game, multiple times a game. Every player will have a bad night but when it happens over and over and over againg, there's a problem.
[Updated on: Wed, 22 November 2023 13:19]
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