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Originally Posted by Steve Bozek
When Gaudreau has 3 players mauling him, his ability to make a play to Monahan is very limited.
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Right and the point is that there's 3 guys on Gaudreau because nobody else is up the ice, nobody driving to the net, nothing.
As the next post said, if there's 3 guys on Gaudreau, somebody should be open. And they were, just, not across the blue line yet.
Team speed was not good. Team motivation was not good. Team was not good. I thought Gaudreau was okay, I'm not really hanging this on him (I would like to see a larger tool bag, some break-away speed so he could at least scare defenders into thinking he's going to go around them...), but the problem was partly that he didn't make any adjustments when things weren't working. As mentioned in other posts, this is also a coaching thing.