Todd’s system has always made goaltending much better, somehow. Our defense is just flat out better too with AlJo and Edvinsson really coming in to their own. Offense was firing at an unsustainable level during the first streak, but our defense has hit its stride and is actually preforming so us leveling out is just manifesting as being good. Nice to see.
Goalies have 100% been stealing the past few games on the road trip. I’ll take the points, but let’s not beat around the bush of who’s carrying the water for the team right now. Just hope the rest of the team can come out firing on offense again after the 4 Nations break.
With McLellan as coach: 14-4-1. I feel like this is a little bit more than “new coach bump” at this point!
Giving me a reason to move on from Lions football, which has been difficult.
1.5 GAA and a .958 SV is more “get goalied” than “win by committee.”
But that’s what you gotta do. That’s why you pay goalies. Sometimes the offense wins you games. And when they falter you hope your goalies can pull through.
Like seeing that PK improve though for sure..
This shows how integral Kane is to the powerplay… but also how he might be a bit of a liability on 5vs5.
Let’s get him retained for $3M to play sheltered 3rd line minutes and PP1. Then when the time comes for him to hang em up, ASP will be ready to take over on the flank.
The interesting thing is that Todd’s system letting the geographically-convenient D join a rush and having a trailing F3 drop into a defense location and cover their spot ends up generating better offense _and_ better defense.
What I’m seeing is…
– Defense has been better as a whole lately — lower GA and better PK.
– Offense has been down a bit, but that’s likely because other teams are learning how dangerous our PP is. Feels like we’ve had fewer PP chances lately. Kane being out affects things too…
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Todd’s system has always made goaltending much better, somehow. Our defense is just flat out better too with AlJo and Edvinsson really coming in to their own. Offense was firing at an unsustainable level during the first streak, but our defense has hit its stride and is actually preforming so us leveling out is just manifesting as being good. Nice to see.
Goalies have 100% been stealing the past few games on the road trip. I’ll take the points, but let’s not beat around the bush of who’s carrying the water for the team right now. Just hope the rest of the team can come out firing on offense again after the 4 Nations break.
Hell yeah. Fuck yeah.
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With McLellan as coach: 14-4-1. I feel like this is a little bit more than “new coach bump” at this point!
Giving me a reason to move on from Lions football, which has been difficult.
1.5 GAA and a .958 SV is more “get goalied” than “win by committee.”
But that’s what you gotta do. That’s why you pay goalies. Sometimes the offense wins you games. And when they falter you hope your goalies can pull through.
Like seeing that PK improve though for sure..
This shows how integral Kane is to the powerplay… but also how he might be a bit of a liability on 5vs5.
Let’s get him retained for $3M to play sheltered 3rd line minutes and PP1. Then when the time comes for him to hang em up, ASP will be ready to take over on the flank.
The interesting thing is that Todd’s system letting the geographically-convenient D join a rush and having a trailing F3 drop into a defense location and cover their spot ends up generating better offense _and_ better defense.
What I’m seeing is…
– Defense has been better as a whole lately — lower GA and better PK.
– Offense has been down a bit, but that’s likely because other teams are learning how dangerous our PP is. Feels like we’ve had fewer PP chances lately. Kane being out affects things too…
All of this is encouraging.