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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
To an extent. A guy like Raymond would still get chewed by Darryl.
What his system expects of his wingers is winning battles and races on the side walls to tip the puck to a streaking Conroy/Kopitar/Doughty etc for the carry-out.
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Yeah this is more what I was talking about.
Gaudreau is soft along the boards, yes he can steal the puck out from players and cycle well despite his size but he also can be flat out pinned into the boards and taken out the play entirely and it happened all the time last season. He's not going to be able to routinely dig the puck out in a battle like Sutter has his wingers do.
But you're right, Gaudreau is sort of an exception to the rule so you'd hope that Sutter would know better than to mess with one of the best forward in the division (who owned his team).