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All I can point to is what he's done in every game I've seen him play for Canada. His entire game is rushing the puck.
The only conclusion I can draw from this the number of those games amounts to zero and you are merely pretending to watch these games. His international record disproves this, look at his U18 tournment and the subway series (Or even yesterday, Team White had their best scroing chance when Murphy fed the puck across the ice through the defense to Shinkaruk who hit the post).
Rushing the puck means taking it into the zone, which Murphy does, then he procedes to pass to an open player or circle untill he or someone else gets open.
No I meant I dont see 3 younger guys going in a lock out year. Riellys a lock, Reinhart played great and is huge so he will make it. Pouliot has been good but hasnt clearly separated himself from older guys so that will be the deciding factor. Especially since younger guys are already going.
Rushing the puck means taking it into the zone, which Murphy does, then he procedes to pass to an open player or circle untill he or someone else gets open.
That's what it should mean. For Murphy, the reality has been closer to taking it into the zone, and then proceeding to cough up the puck. Other times, he'll take it into the zone and then circle and circle until he also loses the puck.
Maybe I've seen him at all the wrong times, but I've never seen him be really dangerous. He's always seemed to me like a guy who has a lot of flash and not a ton of substance.
I did. But these things are based on more than a game or two. If any of the top 4 get hurt he's a guy that can slot right in, unlike Murphy who would flounder around like a fish out of water given any sort of defensive responsibility.
