Originally Posted by 868904 View Post
How do you defend against McDavid? How did the Flames defend against Gretzky in the 80's? They went to war against 99. They physically, mentally, and verbally abused him on the ice. They didn't let him have a comfortable shift at all. Neil Sheehy was always in his face and if he wasn't then Jim Peplinski or Tim Hunter or Doug Risebrough were.
I agree, they should take one of they young guys, have it Brodie, Janko, Takchuk, anyone big and fast we have in the system, Bennett might actually be the best option but, take one or two of these players and just train them hard on shadowing one fast player. What I would do is give Johhny the puck and have which ever player just pick at him and attack him all over the ice. We need someone to take on McCap, hit him hard and get in his face. Make him hate us because he knows every time he steps on the ice, the next player on is Bennett and he won't let him touch that puck in peace. For this type of play a Tkachuk-Bennet-Versteeg would be the lines I use. So when we touch McCap and all the goons come chasing us we have some grit to fight back.
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