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Capitals @ Maple Leafs - Dec. 28th, 7:00pm - SN, TSN 1050

Is 40 extra seconds of a tired Nylander a better option than a fresh Robertson on PP2? How do you leave a shooting threat like that on the bench with no PP time.
 
Umm...I haven't made one comment about Robertson...so I'm not sure how to respond to this, lol.

Anyway it's been a strong effort imo. So many high danger chances, gotta capitalize on them
 
Andy007 said:
Umm...I haven't made one comment about Robertson...so I'm not sure how to respond to this, lol.

Anyway it's been a strong effort imo. So many high danger chances, gotta capitalize on them
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I thought it was you because you mentioned it. My bad saying it was you.
 
herman said:
Every line has the high guy blowing the zone when there’s a possession change to make space. It’s on Knies to bear down on the turnover he generated to send it out.
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Yup. That goal is absolutely on Knies. That puck has to get out. Nylander maybe could have gotten back a little quicker, but I don’t think it would have had an impact on the result.
 
Nice pressure near the end of the period... but not many shots getting thru.

Now to switch the channel to avoid McLean's puns and poetry.
 
ZBBM said:
Yeah, that second goal was garbage stuff from Murray.
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I agree. He should have been able to stop that.
But I would add: I don't know what Domi was doing in that whole sequence - he was in no man's land - not getting anyone.
To me, that dman, Chychrun, was McMann's to cover. McMann was drifting into Domi's no man's land.
So I can blame a bunch on Murray but have to point out that he had some help.
That 3rd line is not a great one defensively. I've seen stuff like that in a few games.

On the first goal, I crunched some numbers and do not agree that it was close to the same category.
A NHL goalie facing a shot from roughly inside the dots - they don't have a lot of time. You are getting into territory where a shot with velocity has to almost hit you or be in a place where something with more mobility like a glove can move to stop it.
An above average 28 ft snap shot to a goalie 7 feet out (as occurred here) gives the goalie about .191 seconds to react and move to make the stop. Top reaction time for NHL goalie is ~.1 second. For a 30 year old goalie, add 25 ms decay in reaction time due to age (normally 50ms). So Murray had .065 seconds to move his big, heavy goalie pad in part by using gravity downward to stop that shot. He did move it downward but not enough in .065 seconds. I think a number of NHL goalies would be scored on in that circumstance.
 
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cw said:
I agree. He should have been able to stop that.
But I would add: I don't know what Domi was doing in that whole sequence - he was in no man's land - not getting anyone.
To me, that dman, Chychrun, was McMann's to cover. McMann was drifting into Domi's no man's land.
So I can blame a bunch on Murray but have to point out that he had some help.
That 3rd line is not a great one defensively. I've seen stuff like that in a few games.

On the first goal, I crunched some numbers and do not agree that it was close to the same category.
A NHL goalie facing a shot from roughly inside the dots - they don't have a lot of time. You are getting into territory where a shot with velocity has to almost hit you or be in a place where something with more mobility like a glove can move to stop it.
An above average 28 ft snap shot to a goalie 7 feet out (as occurred here) gives the goalie about .191 seconds to react and move to make the stop. Top reaction time for NHL goalie is ~.1 second. For a 30 year old goalie, add 25 ms decay in reaction time due to age (normally 50ms). So Murray had .065 seconds to move his big, heavy goalie pad in part by using gravity downward to stop that shot. He did move it downward but not enough in .065 seconds. I think a number of NHL goalies would be scored on in that circumstance.
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Fantastic analysis. Thanks cw.
 
L K said:
Rielly has been disappointing. He has played with better partners than 90% of his career and we aren't really seeing the offensive response. Some of it is Berube's system but he doesn't place shots wel enough for a guy who doesn't slap it
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He's been disappointing going back to last year. 7.5 million is a lot but compared to other D not a bad deal but he should be doing better than he has especially offensively. At 7.5 for another 5 1/2 years though in my opinion ain't looking good.
 
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