Listening right now but wanted to comment on the teams have figured Gaudreau out:
-Perhaps this is figuring him out all the same but what I see is CGY breakout almost always goes up the left side (perhaps every team does with majority left handed shots). The puck alwasy goes to Gaudreau when he's out there. If it goes up the wall to Gaudreau on the breakout they crash down.
Even if he gets it - he's going up the left side along the wall.
If you're defending Gaudreau he has one way to go and the d have the wall to cut himi off. CGY relied on his natural skill to beat guys. What I've always liked is the breakout goes through the centre and the puck come up the middle. In that case you have the entire ice (left, right) - think of LAK whenever Kopitar is on the ice, the puck always goes through him up the middle.
Now Cassie brought up during his 99 pt season he was cutting to middle and not doing those stop ups. Maybe he needs to get back to that.
My point is they haven't necessarily figured Gaudreau out but the CGY play style out.
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