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GDT#47 Islanders @ Capitals 7:30pm Fri Jan 18 2019 NBCSWA,ESPN+, SN1, SNE, MSG+
apace41:
It is hard to imagine that this team has been unable to change their play once other teams have started to play them differently. Does this coaching staff even watch the film? Teams are clogging the neutral zone. So what? You dump the puck and play a heavy game. We are much bigger than most teams and can wear them down. Especially a team playing a back to back. But Rierden is apparently too scared of the talent on this team to TELL them how to play. Instead he lets douchebags like Burakovsky and Kuznetsov dictate how the team is going to play. As we get closer to the playoffs THIS is how the games will be and if he isn't going to change the style of play to what we did last spring we will be on the outside looking in come April. PIT, CBJ and NYI ain't going anywhere -- we will have to earn our way in, and the Atlantic has a good top 4 as well. If he can't change the way he coaches them we are fucked.
ArJunaZ:
That's four loses in a row. I don't even remember the last time we did that. Sharks will attack on Tuesday. We probably won't even have a snorkel.
apace41:
Sunday is Chicago.
ArJunaZ:
--- Quote from: apace41 on Friday January 18, 2019, 10:06:45 PM Eastern ---It is hard to imagine that this team has been unable to change their play once other teams have started to play them differently. Does this coaching staff even watch the film? Teams are clogging the neutral zone. So what? You dump the puck and play a heavy game. We are much bigger than most teams and can wear them down. Especially a team playing a back to back. But Rierden is apparently too scared of the talent on this team to TELL them how to play. Instead he lets douchebags like Burakovsky and Kuznetsov dictate how the team is going to play. As we get closer to the playoffs THIS is how the games will be and if he isn't going to change the style of play to what we did last spring we will be on the outside looking in come April. PIT, CBJ and NYI ain't going anywhere -- we will have to earn our way in, and the Atlantic has a good top 4 as well. If he can't change the way he coaches them we are fucked.
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Exactly! We have hardly used our physicality this entire season. Absolutely stupid. You're right, that's how you make space for yourself with teams like this. Make them scared and looking over their shoulders.
apace41:
--- Quote from: alta on Friday January 18, 2019, 10:04:38 PM Eastern ---this team is a mess right now
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Players are all the same. Only the coach is different. Just sayin'.
Come on Todd. Tell us about how well the boys competed. Give me the great Jay Gruden line.
Dumb fuck.
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