Weve been talking about net front presence with this team for 2 seasons now, it's either the players are too soft to do it, or the coaches aren't putting the right people on the ice at the right time. This team has struggled battling in front of the net as long as I can remember.
If we want net front presence then we have to go out and get players that give you net front presence consistently and aren’t afraid to get banged up and banged on around the net! These dudes are too soft and prefer using the stick and rarely the body! Speed can only take us so far! In the late 90s we had Arnott, Holik, Andreychuk, and Kystoff Oliwa on our team! All of them were 6’4 to 6’5 220 to 245, big heavy, enormous amounts of grit and were a nuisance to opposing goalies and that toughness and bullying got us 1st or winning our division every year! We don’t have a good enough mix of speed and grit on this team, changes need to happen soon if we want to be serious about a deep playoff run
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Weve been talking about net front presence with this team for 2 seasons now, it's either the players are too soft to do it, or the coaches aren't putting the right people on the ice at the right time. This team has struggled battling in front of the net as long as I can remember.
Toffoli and Hischier have been brutal that’s our problem. Nobody stepping up with these injuries!
Friday's practice… but… it's Thursday?
If we want net front presence then we have to go out and get players that give you net front presence consistently and aren’t afraid to get banged up and banged on around the net! These dudes are too soft and prefer using the stick and rarely the body! Speed can only take us so far! In the late 90s we had Arnott, Holik, Andreychuk, and Kystoff Oliwa on our team! All of them were 6’4 to 6’5 220 to 245, big heavy, enormous amounts of grit and were a nuisance to opposing goalies and that toughness and bullying got us 1st or winning our division every year! We don’t have a good enough mix of speed and grit on this team, changes need to happen soon if we want to be serious about a deep playoff run
I wonder if vancouver would give us kuzmenko , cole , mikayev and 2 first round picks for luke and jack ?
Where’d all these rags fans come from in the comments?