<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>tswoboda wrote:</div>
What’s the issue? That they’re not scoring and getting points?They’re not getting scored on, they’re not giving anything up 5v5, they’re playing in the o zone, and they’re the only physical presence on the team.
They just didn’t do anything for 5 of the 7 games sofar, they were invisible… if they played every game like the Seattle game, nobody would bring their game up as needing to be better…some offense is absolutely required, but I don’t expect much… They are obviously paid more to provide some offense though, you can find guys anywhere who can forecheck for the league minimum…
Again, its nitpicking an area needing improvement for a team without a regulation loss, but if you had to choose 3 guys on the Wild right now who need to be better than they have been, who would you pick outside of Foligno, Trenin and Freddy? Maybe Ohgren, but he’s a rookie playing 6 minutes a game…
Marat and Lauko have been much more impactful game after game imo…
You seem pretty close to it all, you should go ask Hedman, Mac and Lilleberg (ROCKED Numerous Times) if they felt those two had ZERO impact last night. Cernak got abused by Foligno and Trennin as well. All of these guys forced passes that they normally do not attempt, they spent time in the corenre getting pressed trying to fish am move pucks out of the zone. Zone exits against both Florida and TB were positively affected by the heavy shifts of the 3rd line. You concentrate on dollar’s and stats. They open the ice for others, they put doubt and fear into large men’s minds, the next line has freedom because the D dont know who is coming at them from behind. No stat or analytic measures fear and the benefit it has on the ice. I can tell you the locker room knows what they are doing and how it provides space on the ice for them. There is a reason the post game chain says HARD on it and why the guys that have gotten it thus far have gotten it.
