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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
That's a pretty big "if". The coach saw one game of Juolevi in the play in-round, and said, "no thanks, I'll take 23 man games of Oscar Fantenberg and Jordie Benn."
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Ah yes. It's best to throw a just recently recovered from a season ending injury 23 year old into his first NHL games in the play-offs.
We had experienced NHL depth and that made a lot more sense than feeding Juolevi to the wolves. Not every young player is going to Makar their way into the play-offs and destroy a team.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
lol, solid strawman there.
Tanev does not need to be a breakout dynamo to be considerably superior to Hamonic in that regard.
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Comparing his previous partner to his current one, which is what the entire argument is... is a strawman? K.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
As to the final point, unfortunately, the game is a little more complicated than simply saying 'let Hughes move the puck'. Pro tip: teams scout each other, and obviously if you're playing against Hamonic and Hughes, you are going to play the puck in Hamonic's corner as much as possible.
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Just like they did with Tanev-Hughes. Dump ins went to Tanev. Puck still ended up with Hughes. Pro-tip: teams have plans for things like cross ice dumps. The plan, in this case, usually involves a super complicated play called "a reverse". As you appear to be a novice fan, I'll explain. See, that's a play that sees the puck dumped into Hamonic or Tanev's corner and he "reverses" the puck behind the net to Quinn Hughes side, allowing Quinn Hughes to get the pick and lead the break-out. As you watch games this year why don't you see if you can identify this play in action!