Ice fishing, or filming in the vernacular, has become a topic of conversation in the NHL playoffs. The topic has also been noticed by the NHL as a league, as it gave at least a stern lecture to the Vancouver and Edmonton teams before the second round match series. A clear message was sent to the teams that crashing on an empty day would not be accepted.
It was the other way around.
In the series between the Canadians, we fell right in the career. Ice fishing started to take on some interesting features when Connor McDavid’s like a superstar plunging from a small touch like in baseball or big power forwards collapsing to the surface of the ice from small bumps.
And Canadians are certainly not the only sinners. For example, you may have even found Finns in the Florida team, whose legs have been lost quite easily from time to time.
– This is how it is done, because it is not punished. You have to look for an advantage in every place and the superiority game is one such thing. It’s funny when even the so-called tough players like Florida Matthew Tkachuk fall over there. It’s an art form of his own to crash or swing a helmet, a hockey expert Ismo Lehkonen give a laugh.
According to Lehkonen, hockey is going in the wrong direction. He puts the responsibility for intervening on the NHL.
– Now, the only punishment is that both get suspended. I think the only remedy for this is that the filmer gets two minutes of fishing and a ten-minute behavioral penalty on top of that. And you could start watching these on video. It would be pretty quickly watched if the judges hesitated. It’s pretty embarrassing to float for 12 minutes in a cage because of something like that, Lehkonen says.
– Ice hockey must not allow this to be where it has been allowed in football.
Who surprised?
Edmonton defender Evan Bouchard is one of the spring comets. He already played well in the regular season, but the Canadian, who charms with his attacking skills, has often not been elevated to the league’s elite in terms of overall performance. As for spring, it can really be lifted.
The 24-year-old from Ontario was the best player in the finished Vancouver series. Bouchard has scored 20 (5+15) power points in 12 playoff games and registered +10 in the power statistics. And this has not been celebrated at the expense of the defensive end. Bouchard has been one of the best defenders this spring, also through the added value brought to the defensive game.
– The third and +10 of the points exchange, from morje to table, Lehkonen starts.
– Bouchard has quickly become a valuable player for his team and I believe he is an assistant coach, a defensive legend With Paul Coffey to have a hand in this. From there has come learning how to win games and how to be a two-way defender.
Bouchard’s greatest strength is still in the puck game, and especially in possession, where the heavy shot has caused quite a bit of damage over the course of the season.
– Looking up, a military posture, the ability to scan the entire area and a sufficiently good and brave lateral movement, are his strengths, along with his shot, with superiority. He reads the first player very well and whether he can shoot himself or if he should turn elsewhere. He has made a hard and fast journey to become a quality defender.
of Bouchard and experienced Mattias Ekholmin the combined power stat reading of the deck pair is +18.
– This is how defender pairs should be built. It’s nice for Bouchard to operate when there’s a dunar pack next to him and his “big brother” as a libero, mirroring away the mistakes.
Who cheated?
The New York Rangers lost in the opener of the conference finals against Florida on Thursday morning. Even if we deservedly give Florida all the credit for the clinical away game, the spiritless Rangers deserve a lot of flack for poor preparation and unwillingness to really fight for the win in the opening game.
Florida eventually won the match 3–0.
– Rangers played far too sterile. A few dudes were ready for a dogfight, but the rest were mostly there to float. Rangers was really soft and a big disappointment. The reactions of the Rangers players at the end spoke volumes. Everyone could see that it’s not fun now that we don’t have time or space. From there, there were a few unfair distributions, Lehkonen points out.
Game-wise, Florida crushed New York with their trademark, powerful hair-raising game. Under it, Rangers suffocated and therefore couldn’t really get their opening or attacking game to work at any point. In the second period, the team played a quarter without a single shot.
The way Florida does that hair-raising game is an art. It’s hard to score if the puck is in Florida all the time, or at least in Rangers territory. It’s a hell of a long way to score from there. After Matthew Tkachuk drove Vincent Trocheck up in the middle at the beginning, Rangers didn’t dare to play through the center anymore.
In the future, you have to be able to use the center so that you can get out on your own. Or you have to play through the glass to the side of the game and it is then the job of the winger to figure out the situation there. In general, Rangers’ puckish play needs to be interpreted and the same applies to body language. Everyone must participate in the contact game, Lehkonen insists.
Goal of the week
We raise the goal of the week by Anton Lundell in a vital 1-1 tie in Boston’s series-clinching game. A little later, Lundell started again by Gustav Forsling scored a 2–1 winning goal.
What next?
Toronto, the NHL’s perennial underachiever, finally hired a new coach. Earlier in the spring, after the disappointment of the playoffs, it gave a boot To Sheldon Keefe, who had coached the team for years. In the future, a former NHL defenseman will be in command behind the bench Craig Berubewho piloted St. Louis to a sensational championship in the summer of 2019.
Berube was already known as a tough defender as a player, and the profile of the Canadian, known by the nickname “Chief” (Finnish: Päällikkö), is no softer as a coach.
– Now the sheriff actually came to the house. The host who will put that pipe in check. He has the Stanley Cup under him and certainly learned a lesson from the loss of St. Louis in the rest of the season. He let the designated guys float there and the second time around he surely won’t make the same mistake. Toronto’s history is partly in indiscipline and softness, it’s easy for him to set out to fix that.
– And coaching the game isn’t bad for him either. It was quite a difficult choice, Lehkonen packed.