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Originally Posted by TheSquatch
Ordinarily I won't feed a troll, but there was a great example of just what I'm talking about. It's not "narrative", it's obvious to anyone with eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB3-4CJMuTI
Watch from about 6:10 on here, this is dead typical McDavid own-zone play. He doesn't skate hard enough to catch Karlsson (71) who drives play into the corner chasing the dump in. He drifts off and makes... lazy incidental contact with McNabb (3) who has already gotten the puck back to Karlsson who gets it to Smith (19) for the goal. McDavid does nothing. No effort to keep up, no effort to contain the puck, no effort to stick with any player - no defensive awareness or care at all. And this is off the face-off - he's fresh. It's hilarious.
Never his fault though, I get hit, he's the greatest. I hope like hell the narrative in Edmonton stays like this and he's never held accountable for the plays he fails to make, the effort he doesn't put in, the things he refuses to learn or adjust to. Because as long as that doesn't happen, Edmonton will not win, and that's just fine with me. |
Not a new take or anything. I have thought for a while the 25 minute nights and two minute shifts are starting to catch up with McDavid, especially now that normal travel is back and a full season. Last year you can over play your stats because travel is lighter and shortened season. To truly maximize his best tools you need him taking short and fast shifts where he’s flying all over the ice. I think that it used to be more that way but over the years the shifts are getting longer and he’s getting caught tired or floating out there because you can’t go all out for two minutes straight.
I think of MacKinnon in the 2019 series. He was taking appropriate shifts but the minute he hit the ice everyone started to back off because he was flying.
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