2/27/18 -- Whalers at Bruins

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Jack joked about the first home game after a long road trip being, "the scheduled loss." Reject that. Win.
 

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Looks like Carlo back in for McQuaid. Backes to C in light of the Bergy news. Gionta possibly in, but Wingels didn’t arrive until the end of the skate/practice so I suppose he could play.

Marchand - Riley - Pastrnak
DeBrusk - Krejci - Rick
Heinen - Backes - Gionta
Schaller - Kuraly - Acciari

Chara - McAvoy
Krug - Carlo
Grzelcyk - McQuaid
 

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In reference to thread title, I was at Hurricanes-Devils game in Raleigh last weekend. A shockingly high amount of Whalers gear there, even sell it in the team shops. I expected some, but I would think the local fans would embrace the team as it is, not the team that they were before.
 

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In reference to thread title, I was at Hurricanes-Devils game in Raleigh last weekend. A shockingly high amount of Whalers gear there, even sell it in the team shops. I expected some, but I would think the local fans would embrace the team as it is, not the team that they were before.
New ownership. Tom Dunden took over in January and he really embraces the Whalers era of team history. He wants to wear the Whalers uniforms as a throwback, and they’ve even played Brass Bonanza from time to time at home games. CT’s governor even invited the Hurricanes to play an outdoor game at UConn’s football field.
 

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That was an unreal play to score by McGinn....but Carlo was out to lunch. He had no business going that high in the slot when Krug was already there.
 

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Carlo is lost out there. No clue what he is doing on the wrong side of the ice on a 3 on 2.
 

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Not looking to slam Carlo, so I'm asking those who know proper Defensive play - did Carlo take the correct guy when he drifted to the left and left the eventual goal scorer alone on his right?
 

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California. Duh.
The NHL app has now twice alerted me that R. Nash has scored for the Bruins.

If their strategy is to make me click through to get details...it's working.
 

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The NHL app does not differentiate between Rick and Riley.

R. Nash (19) from DeBrusk and Krejci

R. Nash (11) from Wingless

Edit: Damn both SFinCali and autocorrect!
 

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Not looking to slam Carlo, so I'm asking those who know proper Defensive play - did Carlo take the correct guy when he drifted to the left and left the eventual goal scorer alone on his right?
No he certainly did not. That play is entirely slammable, I have no idea what he's doing there. He was on the wrong side of the MIDDLE guy in a 3 on 2,let alone the backdoor guy.
 

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No he certainly did not. That play is entirely slammable, I have no idea what he's doing there. He was on the wrong side of the MIDDLE guy in a 3 on 2,let alone the backdoor guy.
Thank you, my gut said he was out of place, but I wanted to be sure. I figured that he should have taken the eventual goal scorer, so if nothing else Rask had a smaller angle to cover even if the pass had gone to the middle guy.

Educate me if you would? So the proper positioning for him (with a team mate on his left) is to not let the middle guy get to his (Carlo's) right? Is it possible he focused in on the two rushing and never saw the goal scorer on his right?
 

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Makes you re-think exactly how valuable Chara is. What a difference it's been for Carlo not playing with him.
I do not like him being paired with Krug either. I keep wondering if it makes sense to put Carlo back with Chara, pair McAvoy and Grzelcyk (both young guys which gives me pause but they have both been pretty decent D) and Miller with Krug (which takes some of the D responsibilities off Krug and lets him do what he does)
 

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Thank you, my gut said he was out of place, but I wanted to be sure. I figured that he should have taken the eventual goal scorer, so if nothing else Rask had a smaller angle to cover even if the pass had gone to the middle guy.

Educate me if you would? So the proper positioning for him (with a team mate on his left) is to not let the middle guy get to his (Carlo's) right? Is it possible he focused in on the two rushing and never saw the goal scorer on his right?
It's possible he never saw the 3rd guy, but it's unlikely and would be very poor awareness if that's the case. Ideally as the weak side D there you want to split the difference between the middle high forward and the backside guy driving the net. Ultimately you want to take the back door guy driving the net to prevent exactly what happened there, and hope your back checker can get the middle high guy. If there's no backcheker and it's a true 3 on 2, you try to force the puck as far away from the net and hope for the best. Ideally I'd let them drop it to the high guy, split the difference, pretend to jump up on him to force him to make a quick decision then drop back to cut off the pass. There's no good options when you're trapped in an odd man rush like that, so you just try to force the least bad option as possible. Letting a guy drive to the net untouched is the most bad.

I do not like him being paired with Krug either. I keep wondering if it makes sense to put Carlo back with Chara, pair McAvoy and Grzelcyk (both young guys which gives me pause but they have both been pretty decent D) and Miller with Krug (which takes some of the D responsibilities off Krug and lets him do what he does)
I could get on board with that.
 

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I do not like him being paired with Krug either. I keep wondering if it makes sense to put Carlo back with Chara, pair McAvoy and Grzelcyk (both young guys which gives me pause but they have both been pretty decent D) and Miller with Krug (which takes some of the D responsibilities off Krug and lets him do what he does)
This sounds like best case scenario to me, too.
 

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It's possible he never saw the 3rd guy, but it's unlikely and would be very poor awareness if that's the case. Ideally as the weak side D there you want to split the difference between the middle high forward and the backside guy driving the net. Ultimately you want to take the back door guy driving the net to prevent exactly what happened there, and hope your back checker can get the middle high guy. If there's no backcheker and it's a true 3 on 2, you try to force the puck as far away from the net and hope for the best. Ideally I'd let them drop it to the high guy, split the difference, pretend to jump up on him to force him to make a quick decision then drop back to cut off the pass. There's no good options when you're trapped in an odd man rush like that, so you just try to force the least bad option as possible. Letting a guy drive to the net untouched is the most bad.

I could get on board with that.
Thank you for the detailed response/education!
 

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Hopefully that makes sense - typing on my iPad gets a little scattered.
 

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The 2nd half of that period is the Bruins team we’ve come to know and love.