My God! 31 MINUTES OF POWER PLAY AND NO GOALS?!
I hear ya , EH. The Bucks have to find a way to put the puck in the net.
I sure like the way Goalie Brady Hjelle played in Regulation , OT & the shootout. If I was Coach OZ , I would play Hjelle in all the CCHA games & Goalie Olson in some of the Non-CCHA games for playing time.
I would start going with Hjelle, too. Throw Olson in there once or twice a month as needed to give Hjelle a rest. Hjelle kept us in it last night until we finally got the equalizer in the third period. Eventually this team will figure out the power plays/goal scoring, then look out!
Very Disapointing weekend of hockey. That was as sloppy of a hockey game as i have seen in a while. Clearing the puck looks like school kids during a fire drill no one knows what to do right now. Olson played very well once again but no offense to go with it. The 2 bad bounce goals Alaska got were off bad clearing attempts they have to clear that up or its going to be a long season. Northern's coming in next weekend and it doesnt get any eaiser they are playing pretty good hockey right now too. Jardine had surgery soon after the game on his wrist. If he had the same injury that Mike Modano had when he played for the Red Wings its not a good one. Modano had to have his fingers rubberbanded to his wrist so he could move them and rip open the scar. It took him almost 4 months before he could do anything with those fingers. Hope he heals well and we can see him again in the future.
The young team excuse doesn't work with this group as 20 of the 27 players on the roster are sophomores, juniors, or seniors. There is no excuse for this team to be playing the way they are playing right now. I'll cut myself off now, but two points at home vs Alaska is unacceptable.
per Sam Jardine successful surgery. Long recovery but should be good to go.
When they do take a shot on the PP no one is in position for a rebound at the top of the crease except on rare occasions and not once have I seen a man slip in at the weak side of the net for the quick pass through the crease which is a bread & butter PP move for a lot of teams. I think math is our guy's weak area right now and it's only simple equations. Example - When bringing the puck up ice along the boards on the PP and two opposing players converge on you at the blue line, how many men on your team does it leave open for the pass?Both of these goalies may actually be better than Heater. We have got to start moving our forwards around more though. On the powerplay they would be better off moving the puck behind the net and dumping a center pass than whatever the #$@! they are trying to do now. They just give the puck up at the point without a shot!!!
When they do take a shot on the PP no one is in position for a rebound at the top of the crease except on rare occasions and not once have I seen a man slip in at the weak side of the net for the quick pass through the crease which is a bread & butter PP move for a lot of teams. I think math is our guy's weak area right now and it's only simple equations. Example - When bringing the puck up ice along the boards on the PP and two opposing players converge on you at the blue line, how many men on your team does it leave open for the pass?
Like I said about Friday's game, they had 31 minutes of PP and not one goal. Come on, that's having an opponent in the box for over half the game! I think the only reason we had a PP goal on Saturday was because it was a 5 on 3, not 5 on 4.Despite the one goal they scored, this team's power play was the worst I can ever remember seeing at OSU. There are things I like about this team, but they certainly need a remedial course in setting up a power play. Sad.
