Comments on: Daniel Sedin says he and Henrik got predictable: “We became easy to defend”

By: polegojim

polegojim — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:09:25 +0000

I disagree… just not enough Daniel to help.

That said, somethings still broken. WAY to much clutch failure. It’s a character issue.

By: bleedingteal4life

bleedingteal4life — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:24:04 +0000

When they are up all night they aren’t staring at the ceiling, they are playing tummy sticks with each other. Sedins For The Loss!

By: bleedingteal4life

bleedingteal4life — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:21:37 +0000

Having twins on the same team should be illegal…

By: whatswellydoing

whatswellydoing — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:28:22 +0000

A sister and bunkbed joke… I haven’t heard those before.

By: whatswellydoing

whatswellydoing — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:25:10 +0000

I don’t think anyone told Edler it’s not against the rules to pass it forward. He was the worst offender by far.

By: jpelle82

jpelle82 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:33:34 +0000

maybe the sisters can figure something out for next year while they are up all night staring at the ceiling from their bunkbeds this summer.

By: leepetertk

leepetertk — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:50:26 +0000

The Canucks used a drop pass in the neutral zone to create space in the neutral zone and then advance into the offensive zone. This tactic worked wonderfully in the first half of the season. In the second half, the drop pass was so predictable and other teams countered it well. The Canucks persisted on using the drop pass despite this. It went from a drop pass near the offensive blueline to a drop pass on the defensive blueline. This led to several shorthanded goals, i.e. one of the Dustin Brown shorthanded goals in game 2 was off a defensive zone drop pass interrupted by Kopitar. The Canucks needed to change their powerplay sooner than game 4 of the playoffs.

I don’t have the stats on this, but I also thought Vancouver was not winning a lot of offensive zone faceoffs on the powerplay in the second half of the season. Particularly the first faceoff. Early in the season, they were really proficient at this and it led to a lot of early powerplay chances. In the second half, they seemed to lose this faceoff, lose 20-30 seconds on their powerplay, and then have difficulty entering the zone with a predictable drop pass.