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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
What I like is that kind of looks like he plays with a smirk as well. He looks extremely confident on the ice. Maybe a little conservative with his positioning currently but at the same time he never looks like he's trying to impress anybody or force plays that don't happen naturally.
One thing I see is that he doesn't get many shot opportunities currently. He's very often either covering defensively or standing in front of the net in the offensive zone. If he could get some open space for some one timers, he'd be able to use his offensive strengths more.
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The number of times that I saw a forward responsibly covering for a defensemen reached a season high last night. At one point in the third, Granlund was covering the left point, the puck was flipped past him and he came back into our D-zone to recover the puck... the only other player in the zone was another forward who had backtracked to cover for a defensemen. I think it was Gaudreau.
Just great awareness and responsibility this season.