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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
The 1st line doesn’t look slow at all though, especially Gaudreau. These guys score on the rush all the time and can take on the best of teams. Every other line though just doesn’t move quick enough. Vegas has a burner on every line and they just play with incredible pace.
They backchecked and forechecked hard, defended fast and countered with their speedy forwards. If we had more forwards like Gaudreau who can create their own shot, make plays for their linemates and break games wide open with their speed than maybe we could be at the same level. But we’re not and it’s the same reason why we can’t seem to get a goal from a forward not named Tkachuk, Monahan, Ferland or Gaudreau. Same guys scoring while everyone else just skates around aimlessly.
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If you have to be a "forward like Gaudreau" to create offense in our system, that's exactly the problem. Vegas skates hard, sure, but the way they play generates so much more speed than we do. As soon as they get the puck they've got at least 2 players making a beeline down the ice, and the puck is getting fired up there with them immediately. Meanwhile we're reversing the puck behind our own net 5 times until the other team makes a line change.