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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
The Mikkelson thing is interesting.
After the last game she was really talking about how Huberdeau looked slow and like he just wasn't able to get around the ice fast enough and was always thinking instead of just playing instinctively.
Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for their conversation, because tonight Huberdeau seemed to be playing way more off instinct than over thinking it.
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A few games ago, she was talking about how fatigue affects you mentally before it sets in physically, and your brain responds by falling back on old habits. She suggested that was why the Flames were running around in their own zone so much.
I can see that, especially since mental fatigue will affect different people at different rates. If some of the players were trying very hard to play the new system, and some were slipping back into the old one, the result is no system at all – which is a pretty good approximation of what we saw.
I find myself really liking Meaghan Mikkelson's colour commentary because of little insights like that.