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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I offer this as a rebuttal to Cali:
Team can't score, Brodie can't defend, this is 80+ games worth of sample size to go off of.
Team needs guys who score goals. Actual goal scorers. Guys 'with skill' aren't cutting it. Need goal scorers. That's what makes gio and Hamilton so effective, both of them can score. Passing it off is junk sauce. I hope jagr can actually score once he arrives, as having another guy looking to take the puck to the corner looking to pass it off isn't going to cut it.
Ending the Bennett as a centre experiment would help that I think.
Time for Tre to seriously look at moving Brodie for a scorer.
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I don't even entirely disagree that this team needs a few more guys who are pure goal scorers, but I think there's enough collectively to get the job done as long as you're keeping the puck out of your own net. In fact, handling your own zone effectively leads to more offensive time. What was missing last night was the transition to offense that this team has the horses for if you look at the makeup of the defense. They couldn't break out of the zone effectively, even though they were playing pretty good defense in their own zone. It got even worse once they got to the opposite blue line, as nobody could carry the puck in, and there was little in the way of a forecheck or sustained pressure. A quick turnaround, and the puck is back in your own zone. This is why we were in our own zone so much, not because the defense was particularly bad.
But I maintain that this team has the horses to score enough to be a winning team. Could we use another guy to score goals? Sure, but there's probably only a couple teams who don't need that.
If by game 20 this team is in the bottom 10 for goal scoring, then yes, make a trade. Until then, see how it plays out with this group, especially when you add Jagr to the mix.