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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Also what I'm seeing with Monahan is a guy who seems really afraid to get caught in the offensive zone, and might be overthinking his defensive responsibilities.
You'd see it a couple times where he was about to pinch in the offensive zone, would realize Dube / Mangipane were already below the goal line and he'd pull back up to be the high man.
Not sure if that's coaching or if it's something he's worried about right now just as he tries to focus on being more defensively responsible, but it was noticeable that he was really playing high in the offensive zone last night.
I actually don't think it was their first choice.
Initially in the pre-season they had Zadorov-Andersson and Hanifin-Tanev...but Zadorov-Andersson just didn't seem to work at all in preseason. That fit the bill of more of a puck mover with a stay at home guy though.
I actually think stylistically Hanifin-Zadorov, and Tanev-Andersson would fit the best but that doesn't work from a LH-RH perspective.
My gut is we see Zadorov-Andersson and Hanifin-Tanev at some point, might work better now that Andersson seems to have found his legs and is playing better again.
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I get the lack of experience on LD pushed us to acquire Zadorov but with the wealth of experience on RD we have I don’t know why we just didn’t see if we could get by with Hanifin, Valimaki, Kylington and Mackey as our LD?
I understand we want depth and to mitigate risk but Zadorov was atrocious with the puck on his stick.
A top 6 with Zadorov and Gudbranson in it just feels like we are asking for trouble.