Lightning need higher starting up against Stars in Game 2 of Stanley Cup Remaining
The Coaches Room is a common characteristic at some level of the 2019-20 season by dilapidated NHL coaches and assistants who flip their serious peep to the game and repeat it thru the lens of a trainer. Secure Zettler and Secure Cookson will gain terminate turns offering insight at some level of the Stanley Cup Remaining.
In this edition, Zettler, dilapidated assistant with the San Jose Sharks, breaks down Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Remaining, taking a gape at it from the Tampa Bay Lightning’s level of watch after a 4-1 loss to the Dallas Stars.
During Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Remaining I watched the zone entries for both groups and I kept taking into consideration the identical thing.
When the Stars enter the zone, they gain over the blue line and chip the puck in, originate the Lightning slither 200 feet the assorted methodology.
When the Lightning enter the zone, they’re taking a gape to originate performs east-west. Though it didn’t turn out within the leisure obvious in Game 1, I persistently felt it turned into hazardous because they gain the skilled gamers to originate it work.
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As soon as they gain over the blue line their eyes illuminate because they’ll slither the puck around, gain the fourth guy, the trailing defenseman, originate seam passes over sticks.
The Lightning made about a of these performs Saturday, but they didn’t turn out in any targets.
If they protect doing it, they’re going to get.
There turned into quite a bit that I most smartly-liked about what the Lightning had been making an strive to realize within the third length, a range of which they desire to enact early in Game 2 at Rogers Region in Edmonton on Monday; (8 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, SN, TVAS).
The Lightning regarded cherish they had been intentionally making an strive to shoot high on Stars goalie Anton Khudobin, who made 35 saves in Game 1, at the side of 22 within the third length.
Video: DAL@TBL, Gm1: Khudobin shines in Game 1 victory
I develop no longer think Khudobin noticed the shot from Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov 10 minutes into the third that went off his shoulder or collarbone. It turned into nearly cherish the sweater made the save.
He also had to originate a rapid and involving glove save on defenseman Zach Bogosian‘s high shot from in tight.
Khudobin turned into doing all the pieces in Game 1 that he did against the Vegas Golden Knights within the Western Conference Remaining. He turned into stopping all the pieces down low, making the pad saves. The lateral saves that regarded laborious and they’re laborious, he turned into getting all the plan in which thru to them and taking pictures the pad out cherish he turned into doing against Vegas.
However the Lightning began taking pictures high within the third length. The shots didn’t slither in, but they regarded mighty extra hazardous, cherish their zone entries.
The extra thing with Game 1 is how each crew regarded in the starting up; the Stars regarded cherish they’d energy and the Lightning regarded cherish they had been wading into the Stanley Cup Remaining as a replace of leaping in with both feet.
Video: Khudobin, Stars gain terminate Game 1 vs. Lightning
I’m sure that playing Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Remaining on Thursday and profitable 2-1 in time beyond legislation against the New York Islanders turned into an aspect for Tampa Bay as against Dallas having four stout days off since advancing to the Cup Remaining on Monday.
That’s a monumental high to approach off of and slither aesthetic into the next series so mercurial.
However the Lightning can gain terminate a range of what they did within the third length as a obvious going into Game 2. They didn’t desire to get a scheme. It may per chance per chance per chance perhaps per chance had been nice, but it wasn’t most fundamental for them to understand what they’ll enact against the Stars.
They are very laborious to shut. Their skill can be very laborious to shut, especially within the occasion that they are ready to hang on to the puck within the offensive zone and blueprint extra penalties cherish they did within the third length. Their vitality play is hazardous, and it absolutely can be because the series progresses.
What the Lightning have to enact a better job of is finding extra second and third opportunities.
Dallas protects the residence-plate predicament, the front of the on-line, so properly but my guess shifting forward is it may per chance per chance probably probably desire to defend that predicament earlier in video games.
The Stars is no longer going to gain it as easy as they did within the foremost two sessions all yet again in this series. You is no longer going to desire to wait until the third length to gape extra of the actual Lightning in Game 2.