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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Stone didn't cover Draisaitl, but Valimaki lost THREE battles with Yamamoto, then left him free to make the pass to Draisaitl. Valimaki was so bad on that play, they would have been better off if he simply weren't there.
No question that Mackey has passed both he and Stone. I would expect that Mackey starts the season in the lineup, with Stone as the #7
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I love Valimaki, I am one of his biggest supporter. But since his injuries he just not the same, before he was full of confidence and he knew what to do when someone come at him, it's almost like he was thinking 3 steps ahead in a chess game. But last night, he's like whenever a forechecking on him, he panic, doesn't what to do and either blindly getting rid of the puck or just plain lose the puck or the forechecker. On that Oilers shorty, he tried to go behind the net with the puck but lost it to Yamamoto and immediately panic and didn't know what to do and allow Yamamot so much time to pass it to Drai. I pains me greatly to see a once upon a time promising Dman turned into that because of injuries.
