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Originally Posted by TheoFleury
Physicality, if that's all you bring, is only a good thing if you can limit your mistakes. The first goal was something that should never happen to a player like Grossman. What makes him think he can just lob it up the middle like that? Make the safe play, you're a defensive defenseman for crying out loud. I would rather an icing than that nonsense.
The second goal was an ill-advised pinch. I don't care what the Oilers 'gave' him, that's not a play he should try to make. Just dump it in or take a shot, why try the pass? Defensive defenseman are supposed to make SIMPLE plays. I don't blame Tkachuk at all, it was his first game FFS. He probably didn't expect Grossman to start rushing up doing a Giordano impersonation.
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Come on guys that play was clearly on Tkachuk to cover and not on Grossman. Its not like it was Tkachuk's first game of hockey EVER, even in beer league forwards are expected to cover for defenseman.
And you can't say he didn't see him, because Grossmann is seriously big.