Its too bad the preds dont have a better #3, theyre too top heavy IMo.
I know suter and weber have great chemistry and they play 30mins a night so they pretty much eat up half the game but against a team like detroit who can roll out 2 potent lines, id split them up for the sake of having either one of suter or weber on the ice at all times, pretty much the entire game. This is a HUGE asset very few teams have.
Ducks had it worj out great with nieds and pronger. Devils with stevens and nieds. When you split up your all star dmen, they dramatically elevate the play of their defensive partners.
Its too bad the preds dont have a better #3, theyre too top heavy IMo.
I know suter and weber have great chemistry and they play 30mins a night so they pretty much eat up half the game but against a team like detroit who can roll out 2 potent lines, id split them up for the sake of having either one of suter or weber on the ice at all times, pretty much the entire game. This is a HUGE asset very few teams have.
Ducks had it worj out great with nieds and pronger. Devils with stevens and nieds. When you split up your all star dmen, they dramatically elevate the play of their defensive partners.
Doesn't work out for us when we tried that. For some reason neither really developed chemistry with anyone else, Suter also ripped on Trotz a bit for changing up the D-pairs.
'08 it was the lucky lidstrom shot from center ice
'12 preds in 6
If there was anyone in that series that was lucky, it was Nashville. Detroit was about to take a 3-1 series lead, when Hasek gave up 2 goals in like 8 seconds.
Then in game 5 that I was at, Nashville scored a goal with less than a minute left to force ot when the shots were like 60-14. Detroit utterly dominated that game.
Actually it was the series clinching goal if I remember right, but more importantly it killed the players and the fans when that went in and neither ever got it back afterwords.
