[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper

Why would you put it all on Backlund to defend McDavid? Is he one of the defenseman who’s getting burned on a 1 to 1 foot race because he can’t out skate McDavid? No because he’s not going to always be on the ice against him nor does he play the defense position. How many times has McDavid torched us on a breakaway because no one and I mean absolutely no one in the league can keep up with him in a foot race.

As for all the stff about not allowing the defense to jump into the play. That’s garbage. We legitimately just saw TJ Brodie and Hamonic jump into the play yesterday to score our 1st goal of the game, Hamilton also jumps into the play all the time which is where he’s picked up a lot of his goals and chances, Gio jumps into the play from time to time and Kulak’s first goal was also a result from jumping into the play. If he didn’t allow these guys to do so, why are there so many examples of our defensemen jumping into the play?

This team also doesn’t always go up the ice as a 5 man unit. Just watch Johnny Gaudreau every game blowing the zone early for a breakaway stretch pass. He doesn’t force guys to do anything. Our team is also not fast, it’s obvious because teams like Boston, Tampa, Vegas and etc are actually fast and they skate circles around us. Not because of coaching, but because these teams have built their rosters around speed and skill rather than the edge and truculence that we’ve focused on. You can choose what you want to believe, but man do I disagree with you completely.