Re: Wisconsin Hockey T*M2=NCA2*7
How can the coaches receive a pass when the defense and goaltending is this atrocious and have not improved one iota since the beginning of the season?
I wouldn't give em a pass, but no amount of coaching is gonna make those two goalies anything more than what they are - mediocre.
The defense is awful and they are making the same mistakes over and over.
Do you think these mistakes are being ignored?
My guess is that they are being pointed out and corrective advice is being offered. Demanded, even.
Some guys just won't ever get it.
Davison, for instance. The play he made on the Gopher who scored.
All he had to do on that play was beat the Gopher to the near post. He had inside position. Literally, I would have beaten the Gopher to the post.
Instead, he stays on the Gopher's left heel allowing the Gopher to cut and shield the puck and gets skated around and gives up a quality scoring chance that ends in a goal.
He's been coached since squirts to keep himself between that attacker and the front of the net and to defend between the dots.
What amount of further coaching should he need at this point? It's defense 101 and should be reflexive by this stage.
Again - this is a mediocre team with mediocre players.
And stupid ones at that - at least in our zone.