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Originally Posted by UKflames
Fantastic game and the 3m line was just rolling. Sweet goal by Eat Bread, such control sitting on the back of his skate blades to get Subban to over committ.
Monahan is a problem right now, although Lindholm has gone missing too. So many times that JH was in the Vegas zone all alone as the other two couldn't keep up. Him and Mony may have been line mates for 4 years but when does that loyalty start costing you goals, if tonight had been a loss that time could have been now and a change would be needed. As it was they won, so they get a small reprieve, but something isn't right.
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I played with a guy who had a similar style to Gaudreau's way back when. Obviously not as good as him but he was a small. fast winger with a lot of moves. When we, or even just him, weren't getting the points he would get frustrated and try to do too much himself.
We wouldn't enter the zone with much structure and it was very hard to know where to be for him. Good teams would force him into situations where he dazzled yet ultimately ran out of options. They did this by double-teaming him at crucial points and taking away his favourite options (say like Johnny's curl inside the zone and hitting the trailer). So many plays were ultimately "scrambled eggs" type plays and myself and the centre were forever guessing at what the right place to be was.
I don't think Monahan and Lindholm are playing well at all but I feel for them. The line needs to play with more structure and be less predictable. You can see half of Johnny's giveaways coming before they cross centre ice these days.