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Originally Posted by Brad Marsh
Lol. Ok.
I said that Sutter was probably right, that had Kylington not committed to Wilson, he would have had a play on the goal scorer.
But I am going to stick with the narrative, that more often than not, the defenseman takes the guy driving the zone with the puck and tries to seal him into the boards.
I'm also going to stick to the narrative that Kylington had his man on that play, and that one of the backchecking forwards could have and should have picked up the goal scorer.
All of that can be true simaltaneously. And also, you may be surprised, and I'm not syaing Sutter is necessarily wrong here, but the best coaches in the league aren't always right.
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It's such a weird play. I can see the argument that Kylington playing more of a zone there would have saved the play in retrospect, but I still see it as the right read with the expectation that Monahan is overloading the strongside.
It's true that I don't know exactly what Sutter is asking for in this situation, but usually with him there's an element of trusting your teammates in his style of play - having everyone on a string and playing aggressively. Similar to how even though penalty killing is about being outnumbered, you need to attack the puck carrier if it looks like they don't have full control.
Kylington playing the zone would have been the opposite of trusting his teammates. It would have been more of a Kris Russell / Bob Hartley passive style than a Darryl Sutter / Drew Doughty aggressive style.
I dunno.