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Originally Posted by Young Guns
Gaudreau - Game got physical and his line almost feels like it’s short handed at times. He beats everyone to the puck but as soon as it looks like he may get touched he stops short, extends his stick as far as possible and swings for the fences. When the goalie was pulled with a minute left in the game he would rather allow the Oilers to get the puck and Shoot it at the empty net than risk taking any contact. The other team just has to look at him the wrong way and he coughs it up.
The commentators keep talking about how good defensively he is this year but I just don’t see it. He won’t go into the dirty areas, rather hangs back and let’s his line mates do the work. Same in the offensive zone, no idea why anyone dumps the puck in and expects Johnny to race into the corner and fight for the puck because he won’t.
He is our best player but this is one of the main reason this team cannot win in the playoffs. Not willing to sacrifice in order to win.
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The line needs to be broken up because of what you said coupled with monahan’s skating and the fact Leivo isn’t good enough. It’s a terrible mix.
Someone needs to ride shotgun for gaudreau as well so players can’t do what drysaddle did to him. Almost think lucic might be a good match.