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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
While true, Russell also plays a very loose gap which results in those skate/stick blocks. It works against lower tier 3rd liners and 4th liners who can't take advantage, but whenever he gets matched against strong skilled forwards (2nd+ liners) his loose gap gets exploited. And as GioforPM already pointed out, his failure to break the puck out well resulted in sequences of getting hemmed in - and when you get hemmed in on long shifts you might as well be on the wrong end of a 3-on-1 break-away because the occurrence of goals against in those situations is very high.
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How much of that 'loose gap' was due to Hartley's system? It didn't seem as noticeable in Dallas.