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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
Lindholm is playing great at centre. Monahan and Gaudreau getting hemmed in by the fourth line is not the RW problem.
Tkachuk not playing near his level is not on Lindholm. Those three (Monahan, Gaudreau and Tkachuk) are below their level of play for past few games despite some points.
And it's not just them. The entire team is not sharp to start games. They don't skate to start - they just watch the other team to see what they're going to get. They are content with taking it.
Apparently CGY compete level is a slow boil. I guess that's what CGY scouts look for because compete is supposed to be quality management selects for but they just chose the we'll get to it later kind. Stand around and watch kind.
I mean Markstrom is ready why can't they copy him?
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It’s a combination of lines plus system though
That article on their breakouts showed a couple of things. A lot of it was weak side D use abs tunnel vision, but another huge part of it was speed
Pre ASG under Peters, 13-23-28 were wheeling with 7 and 5. Now you have too much of the winger (19 a ridiculous amount of the time) stationary at the far blue line
Also Ward’s job isn’t to maximize 28 and admire how lovely he is at C (despite the W stapled to him being bizarrely AWOL when the clock is running), it’s to maximize the group of 12 F and 18 skaters. Too many C’s on this team and not enough Ws and tough decisions have to be made
Good players playing slow and dumb fail to amaze