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Savvy27 · 02-22-2010, 08:49 PM

I think that Crosby and Nash's playing styles have proven to clash in the tournament. Both players are very demanding of the puck and try to carry it through the neutral zone, but it seems like Crosby is much less effective when he is not the guy who gets the puck (that is not to say he is bad as the second guy in, but he is so much greater of a threat with the puck than without it).

I wonder how much thought the coaches gave to reuniting the Nash-Getzlaf-Heatley line? Maybe they are concerned with just how ineffective Joe Thornton can actually be without those two out there.

I'd put a Morrow-Thornton-Perry line together and play them sparingly, with a Marleau-Richards-Toews line acting as the third unit.

02-22-2010, 08:49 PM	#18
Savvy27 #1 Goaltender Join Date: Sep 2002 Exp:	I think that Crosby and Nash's playing styles have proven to clash in the tournament. Both players are very demanding of the puck and try to carry it through the neutral zone, but it seems like Crosby is much less effective when he is not the guy who gets the puck (that is not to say he is bad as the second guy in, but he is so much greater of a threat with the puck than without it). I wonder how much thought the coaches gave to reuniting the Nash-Getzlaf-Heatley line? Maybe they are concerned with just how ineffective Joe Thornton can actually be without those two out there. I'd put a Morrow-Thornton-Perry line together and play them sparingly, with a Marleau-Richards-Toews line acting as the third unit.