Modifié 15 janv. 2021 à 23 h 37
I saw more negatives than positives, but at least the leafs were worse.
Positives
Stuetzle will be good sooner than later. He wasn’t great, but he wasn’t bad either. Nice first game. He’ll improve quickly.
Murray was okay. One unlucky high goal, one bad goal.
Not positive or negative
Batherson, Tierney, CBrown, Paul, Tkachuk, Chabot, Zaitsev, Gudbranson as expected, mostly.
Coburn and JBrown were as expected, and played minutes reflective of that
Negatives
Stepan was slow, and didn’t show top6 skill, imo.
Dadonov was held back by Stuetzle’s inexperience and Stepan’s decline. He’ll be better though.
Norris looked overmatched, but he never gave up, which is kinda good, but not positive
4th line - Anisimov was okay, and Watson had some good moments, but Paquette was replaceable.
Wolanin looked overmatched as well
The PP was frustrating, but it’s been frustrating for years now
PK was as expected, maybe a little better than expected
It’s one game, but I would swap White in for Paquette, not sure if Reilly would be better than Wolanin.
We all see different things, because we’re all watching different things during the game.
Watson on pace for 112 goals, I say he gets it. This basically means, ignore who got goals and assists the first game, it’s the first game.
Edit: I swear I heard the broadcast team say Watson had his second. I wasn’t paying attention to who was scoring the goals, or assisting, I was focusing on specific players at specific times. As I mentioned earlier though, it doesn’t matter who scores in the first game. What matters is who’s consistently scoring or assisting.