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  1. He won’t be, but I think having Myers and tryamkin in the rotation allows the other d to play a bit better and also gives us better crease clearing ability which should get out the goalie as well. hes not all star calibre by a long shot but i think he is useful, especially in the tighter confines of an NHL rink compared to an international rink
  2. So far in the playins /round robin which teams have surprised you and played well and have played themselves into contention talk? And which have dropped in your opinion East good: Flyers - look well drilled, hungry and excellent goal tending and seem to be playing as a team Bad: Bruins - look like the team is still on a COVID break. It’s not even that they are taking a while to get going, they look like they couldn’t give a crap. Maybe they will turn it on in round one proper but by that point they may already be fighting uphill to save a series West Good: Chicago- didn’t expect them to compete as well as they have done, some of their vets are hungry for another shot it seems Bad: Stars - small sample size however defensively they are all over the shop and I expected them to be a lot lot tighter than they have been
  3. I agree - I know Hughes got the points and played very well, but I think Myers was one of the better players out there, kept the net clear which is something we have been calling for. made the wild hurt and apart from 1 of those penalties at least he laid down a marker. If you noticed the wild were moving more to the half boards and away from the slot the longer the game went on. A big part of that was Myers
  4. If you read my other posts I have given him credit today for the win, for the change in defensive structure we have seen tonight, the lines he has ran. my point I was making was in relation to the post I replied to which was about how he’s done a great job with the kids and why wouldn’t you want that guy coaching the youth. as a few other people on here have meantioned he is a players coach and is doin my a good job of getting them to play. My view is I’m not a fire him now guy after every loss but I feel while he has done a job for us, he isn’t the right guy to get this team to the next level. one of the reasons I stopped posting on this board many years ago is that after each win people believe the team is perfect, after each loss we should fire everyone and blow up the team. its a lot more nuanced, in loses sometimes you can see something being tried and not clicking but is a good idea, sometimes it’s outplayed on the night, sometimes it’s a showcase of what’s wrong. when you win just because there is the W doesn’t mean that things are all okay. You can still look and see for areas of improvement. when you then extrapolate this across the whole season you can see trends and you can use these to try and pinpoint the root cause. Sometimes it’s a player, sometimes is a system, sometime is tactical etc. my view on green is this- the players like him, as such will play well for him, however either he isn’t good enough with systems or the coaching staff he has around him are not good enough. To many times this season and even in game one and game 2 do we give up grade A chances and let opponents just sit in the slot completely unattended. To many times does an opponent drive to the net and have no one go with them. (And today I gave credit as they have moved to playing a tight box and eliminated this for this game so it’s a welcome change) the PP entry is weak and against poor team in the regular season did okay, but it’s just stat padding masking the entry issue. we have some highly skilled players but it seems like a lot of the game plan is reliant on individuals. This is where I believe the youth coach aspect comes in. He is great and getting players to express themselves and when you have some high end potential in lower levels being able to get that out of a player is great, and you can then use that. At the top table everyone has high skilled players so you need to find systems and ways of playing that make a team greater than the sum of its parts, as opposed to 5 separate guys on the ice.
  5. 100% agree. He does the dirty work of the defence and it’s sorely needed. Yes it does mean we will have to PK a bit but it sets a tone, and puts down a marker.
  6. Is less about the team, but having those players together. i hope we win our series and go deep, but if we don’t Alex with petter sounds good
  7. I think sutter and 3c and guadette sitting was talked about a fair bit by a vocal minority, only to be shouted down that sutter is a waste of space
  8. Won’t let me start a post in here. but this seems the closest titled issue. is there any way to not have the sign out button directly below the notification bell. (When using a phone) so many time click to see notification only for it to log me out, it’s effin frustrating and poor UI
  9. At Utica and lower levels and developing actual youth - no issue with the guy, however you could be the best youth coach in the world, doesn’t mean you would be suitable for the NHL
  10. Without wanting to rehash the whole tryamkin thing - if we can make a deal when he finishes the KHL next season Myers and Tryamkin together would have opposing forwards looking to the bench for a change
  11. I’m not sold on green, but will give him credit for today and the defensive tweaks we have made.
  12. So just seen the sanheim goal - that’s a well executed goal - would love to see him on the Canucks team
  13. Nah Myers was good tonight, yes to many pens but he played well and made his mark
  14. Vintage Canucks does PGT you do all the GDT from now untill we can automate you
  15. Hard to assess the 5-5 that game but sutter and motte played well. also while I have been bashing green for the lack of defensive system, it did seem 5-5 we stoped trying to attempt some sort of half ass overload pressure defence and went back to a simple box, and kept the slot clear and any wild player going into that area had to fight to get there and to stay there so that’s plus on the coaching side.
  16. We complain when the refs don’t whistle we complain when they do. I do think that the refs have been told to get the silly stuff called out the game so hopefully game 4 is better flowing
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