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Leafs' Prospect/Marlies Discussion Thread!

don't know what to say. he got beat skating-wise, recovered with his stick. not really complicated.
 
zeke said:
don't know what to say. he got beat skating-wise, recovered with his stick. not really complicated.
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You really think he got beat? You don’t think that if he wanted to that he could’ve kept skating hard and stayed in front of him? He chose a certain route to get close to him to strip the puck away, but the guy made a nice move to elude him. And he still stayed with him and stopped him.
 
he got beat by skating, recovered with his stick from behind.

not sure how to talk about this if you just deny that.
 
zeke said:
he got beat by skating, recovered with his stick from behind.

not sure how to talk about this if you just deny that.
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If you play hockey, you know that sometimes you make a beeline for the player and don’t try to necessarily just stay in front of him. The kid gambled on the first attempt, he didn’t get beat. But he did get tricked, and then recovered nicely anyway.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
If you play hockey, you know that sometimes you make a beeline for the player and don’t try to necessarily just stay in front of him. The kid gambled on the first attempt, he didn’t get beat. But he did get tricked, and then recovered nicely anyway.
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I was never a great skater but man, if I knew about this excuse I would have used the fuck out of it. "Coach, I got beat on purpose, I swear!"


Anyway from my eyes, he reached to try to steal the puck, missed and then the player got around him because he put himself in a poor spot by being overly aggressive. But that incredible norris-winning long reach bailed him out in the end.
 
Preston said:
I was never a great skater but man, if I knew about this excuse I would have used the fuck out of it. "Coach, I got beat on purpose, I swear!"
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you need to add "if you ever played hockey" right after saying "Coach"
 
I concede. The guy that got beat did not in fact get beat. He is a flawless skater, completing what looks to be a flawless nhl star package of skills.

my bad.
 
zeke said:
I concede. The guy that got beat did not in fact get beat. He is a flawless skater, completing what looks to be a flawless nhl star package of skills.

my bad.
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you got LO-EFFED. Oh my!
 
I can't believe a 6'4 beautiful skating d made it to the 6th round. Golly! What were other teams thinking?
 
Preston said:
I was never a great skater but man, if I knew about this excuse I would have used the fuck out of it. "Coach, I got beat on purpose, I swear!"


Anyway from my eyes, he reached to try to steal the puck, missed and then the player got around him because he put himself in a poor spot by being overly aggressive. But that incredible norris-winning long reach bailed him out in the end.
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Yup. I agree with all that, which is exactly what I said about the play from the moment the guy eluded him. But before that moment, he wasn’t beaten because of superior skating.
 
does a great skater with that head start ever get beat like that by just a slight change of speed (in junior)?
 
zeke said:
does a great skater with that head start ever get beat like that by just a slight change of speed (in junior)?
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I never said he’s a GREAT skater, Byonkin. I said it doesn’t look like a problem. He’s good, and the way he pivots and moves in tight quarters seems to hint at something better than average there. But to answer your question, you can sacrifice a head start by taking a different route to a player in an effort to attempt a steal. He could’ve just kept skating in the direction of the net and wouldn’t have been behind the guy. He did after all catch him after he got “beat”.
 
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