I wish I had time to read the entire article. If you mentioned this I apologize.
If a team has the luxury to consider a healthy scratch. Why not alternate the players as matched up against the opponent? I would think this would make more sense, resting those, players, while alternating and adjust to the opponent that they’re playing that day that night or that week.
Hind sighting hard right now. I found it hard to argue with your statistics but Nils always wins the eye test. I'm probably eating up confirmation bias when he plays, but it always seems like the offense comes alive when he's in and this team IS built for offense over defense. That's PDBs calling card. I don't think this debate is settled and maybe it won't be until the Stars win the cup. Please keep us posted on their performances. I think it's one of the bigger stories.
Sounds like Hakanpaa has a lower body injury, so Lundkvist will get another chance to try and impress tonight. But I'm not sure there's anything he can do to change things. DeBoer is going to go with Hakanpaa because, like you said, he's the safe choice.
Ok, stat curveball question. My system issue as I’ve previously observed that the Stars D play a man on man system, 2 D in same corner, chasing forwards out to the blue line. Always pinching in strong side O blue line. This system requires forwards getting back and trying to play D. I can’t count how many open slot opponents got high chance shots and goals from when our forwards are NOT covering for the D. Easy to blame the closest D, but are they really to blame???
Question, don’t those chances/goals mislead the stats on how well the “D man” on the ice actually played?
I cringe when the Suter-Hakenpaa pair is on the ice against fast teams. If there was going to be a platoon, I would want Lundkist playing against the faster teams.
Something to keep in mind with the coaching staff decision to keep Hakanpaa in the lineup is his physical game.
He leads all Dallas D with 196 hits...In second place Suter with 74.
Even if "hits" are a small part of all the other stuff, my guess is that it still resonate heavily in the heads of most NHL coaches.
I wish I had time to read the entire article. If you mentioned this I apologize.
If a team has the luxury to consider a healthy scratch. Why not alternate the players as matched up against the opponent? I would think this would make more sense, resting those, players, while alternating and adjust to the opponent that they’re playing that day that night or that week.
Hind sighting hard right now. I found it hard to argue with your statistics but Nils always wins the eye test. I'm probably eating up confirmation bias when he plays, but it always seems like the offense comes alive when he's in and this team IS built for offense over defense. That's PDBs calling card. I don't think this debate is settled and maybe it won't be until the Stars win the cup. Please keep us posted on their performances. I think it's one of the bigger stories.
Agree completely. See Colorado!
Well done. You ride the fence well. This situation s one that many will ride the fence.
Sounds like Hakanpaa has a lower body injury, so Lundkvist will get another chance to try and impress tonight. But I'm not sure there's anything he can do to change things. DeBoer is going to go with Hakanpaa because, like you said, he's the safe choice.
Ok, stat curveball question. My system issue as I’ve previously observed that the Stars D play a man on man system, 2 D in same corner, chasing forwards out to the blue line. Always pinching in strong side O blue line. This system requires forwards getting back and trying to play D. I can’t count how many open slot opponents got high chance shots and goals from when our forwards are NOT covering for the D. Easy to blame the closest D, but are they really to blame???
Question, don’t those chances/goals mislead the stats on how well the “D man” on the ice actually played?
I cringe when the Suter-Hakenpaa pair is on the ice against fast teams. If there was going to be a platoon, I would want Lundkist playing against the faster teams.