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Originally Posted by IgiTang
I was really unimpressed with the Forward line Blender last night.
Versteeg-Janko-Jagr was super ineffective. Although, I feel Jagr may quite possibly have been our hardest working forward against the Jackets.
The jackets also played the Flames like a fiddle. The hard NZ trap dating the flames to dump and chase knowing their D can turn and retrieve before the Flames. So GG the puts Johnny wit Her bennett and Brouwer but those two are useless on puck retrieval..
It just seems that if GG’s initial run and fun strategy doesn’t work he throws the lines in a blender and then has no real plan from there.
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This last part confuses me. Last night he made some adjustments, and granted they did not work, but for 95% of the season the biggest complaint I've seen is GG's unwillingness to mix up the lines and to continue to roll his 4 lines over and over. I actually view his attempts to mix things up to find a way to break through the Jacket's defense as a positive move from his normally rigid stance towards his lineup. Jackets are just a really good smother team.
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