Post by MrHulot on Feb 19, 2024 2:35:58 GMT
Biggest problem with B's is what marcotte is referring to...inability to close out what should be wins. Either dumb penalties taken or weird odd man rushes that occur late in games when it should be shutdown mode. That was the thing about Julien's teams too for the most part....Chara and the B's were in shutdown time when it was 2-1 or 3-2...rarely did the B's get burned by a late goal...now it's like common place. Tired of it myself. Not sure if you can blame Ullmark or Swayman on these goals, but it's getting annoying. It's really not the forwards overall. It's that the team lacks good defensemen after 73 and 25 while 27 has zero confidence on offense and looks tentative. You can't win games with 3 d guys while the other 3 spots are either too slow, manhandled or can't make any plays to help offense. Rather have a Tinordi stay at home d guy who hits someone than what we have. Lauzon would have been great on this team...they need a guy who will hit and take out people...the d guys as a whole are soft....Forbort is not the guy of last year and PK pro right before being injured..got to get 2 new d guys it seems with this group to compete in playoffs.
KFClaude loved to have his team play "not to lose", but this attitude backfired quite often. However, Chara, Seidenberg, McQuaid, Ference and even Boychuk were really good at shutting down the opposition, and that's why his squads didn't get burned by a late goal as frequently as the current B's. They still lost a lot of games they should have won, especially since "Chicken Man" had such distinct contempt for OT and the shootout that he basically didn't bother what happened in the extra sessions and the "skill competition".
Sometimes it really felt like this:
Dec 15, 2015 23:53:45 GMT 1 bookboy007 said:
"Ok, we'll start with Bergie, Marsh and Krug. Then it's...hey...hey Z...is HaggsNeckFat still in his spot on Press Row? It looks like his seat is empty and the cushioning has had enough time to reassume it's normal shape. That means he must have been gone at least 15 minutes...CHANGE OF PLANS!!!"
Dec 15, 2015 23:42:05 GMT 1 MrHulot said:
But sometimes you play to end the game as quickly as possible so you can get to the next KFC joint before they run out of buckets again...
But sometimes you play to end the game as quickly as possible so you can get to the next KFC joint before they run out of buckets again...