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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Yes, Gaudreau and Tkachuk are great players.
But the team currently plays a boring style of hockey. They aren't mutually exclusive.
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Personally I don't find this team that "boring" but can see others concerns with this team.
I think in some ways a big part of that is we have a boring roster, especially at forward. So playing a more structured style just magnifies that.
We have some really good puck moving d-men (Hamilton, Gio, Brodie) but nobody who is purely an electric offensive d-man that is going to wow you with end to end rush after end to end rush (ie. Karlsson, Klingberg, Burns, Gostisbehere).
We have some good forwards but overall they are pretty boring, and also not the most fleet of foot.
Gaudreau & Tkachuk (+Bennett when he's "Good Bennett") are entertaining but really that's it.
Ferland & Monahan play more of a simple but effective game and neither play that quick and "top 6 Ferland" doesn't play as physical.
Backlund & Frolik are skilled but play more of a 200ft cycle game than an electric game.
Jankowski shows flashes but for the most part plays a pretty boring game.
Then outside of that it's a whole bunch of "meh" - Stajan, Brouwer, Hathaway, Lazar, and the rest of the mish mash that makes up our bottom 6 aren't exciting.
They aren't young top prospects that you are excited to see each night, they mostly are veterans that play "no event" games where they don't score or get scored on.
Overall at forward we don't have a ton of speed, don't have a ton of grit, and have a bunch of guys who play more of a "simple but effective game" (Gaudreau, Tkachuk, "Good Bennett" being the exceptions).
At defense is where the gap is because I feel like that group could play a more exciting game than they do now but considering they tend to bleed chances when they play that way I get why they have reigned them in a bit.