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Originally Posted by taxbuster
Bingo, respectfully I think that your take is a rose-coloured glasses one. The first period was abysmal from a structural perspective. They controlled play - and that is all. They failed to develop any pressure, sustained, close-in, net-front pressure. Their passing was terrible...East-West and even in their own zone there was a D-to-D pass that went off the back of some opponent's skate as they were clearing the zone to tag up. That is simply inattentive play.
That's what I saw a LOT of in that period. Sure - they weren't rewarded - but they also played like crap. The only thing that they did was have the puck more. But they really didn't do anything of consequence with that control.
After that it all just fell apart.
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Rose coloured glasses? Did you read the rest of the post?
Not going to the net, lack of jam, coaching, wrong players ... the possibility that the high danger chances they get don't have the traffic in front to make them truly dangerous.