GhostofPotvin29
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BlueWhiteBlood said:Gunnarsson/ Phaneuf
Gardiner/ Franson
Fraser or Liles/ Kostka
I think that is how it has to line up, with the left/ right shot thing.
Well both Gunnarsson and Phaneuf are lefties in that.
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BlueWhiteBlood said:Gunnarsson/ Phaneuf
Gardiner/ Franson
Fraser or Liles/ Kostka
I think that is how it has to line up, with the left/ right shot thing.
Potvin29 said:Well both Gunnarsson and Phaneuf are lefties in that.
BlueWhiteBlood said:Potvin29 said:Well both Gunnarsson and Phaneuf are lefties in that.
True, but Phaneuf plays the right side normally though, correct? Or is Gunnarsson playing his off wing?
Potvin29 said:I thought Carlyle had switched Phaneuf to the right side. I swear I read something about Carlyle liking his D to play their "right" sides, left-handed on left side and vice-versa.
Potvin29 said:BlueWhiteBlood said:Potvin29 said:Well both Gunnarsson and Phaneuf are lefties in that.
True, but Phaneuf plays the right side normally though, correct? Or is Gunnarsson playing his off wing?
I thought Carlyle had switched Phaneuf to the right side. I swear I read something about Carlyle liking his D to play their "right" sides, left-handed on left side and vice-versa.
Floats like a Kadri said:And now we dance the dance of joy...
Finally Holzer is back down to hopefully learn how to play better D. I hope the pressure isn't thrown on Gard's shoulders too much.
bbt said:Good news all the way around. Two down (Holzer/Kostka), one to go, the big pylon! Then the Leafs will have a good core defense!
leafplasma said:bbt said:Good news all the way around. Two down (Holzer/Kostka), one to go, the big pylon! Then the Leafs will have a good core defense!
Kostka is still with the club or do you mean just not in the starting lineup. Kostka is a great 7th guy really, cheap contract, old enough not to worry that he is in the press box hence not developing and getting regular time but also reliable enough to use him when he is placed in the lineup. I have no problem really with Kostka, he just wasn't number one pairing material.
Nik said:leafplasma said:bbt said:Good news all the way around. Two down (Holzer/Kostka), one to go, the big pylon! Then the Leafs will have a good core defense!
Kostka is still with the club or do you mean just not in the starting lineup. Kostka is a great 7th guy really, cheap contract, old enough not to worry that he is in the press box hence not developing and getting regular time but also reliable enough to use him when he is placed in the lineup. I have no problem really with Kostka, he just wasn't number one pairing material.
I think the real question with Kostka is where he falls kind of in the middle of those two though. At the beginning of the year I said I wasn't confident in a defense that had so many AHL lifers on it and people said Kostka/Fraser/Holzer were really just spare parts on the bottom end. That's proven relatively true with Fraser and Holzer but Kostka, at least in ice time, has been the team's #2 guy.
So good for the press box? Probably. He's got a ways to fall on the depth chart before that though.
leafplasma said:http://video.mapleleafs.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=446
Cycle down to the Holzer interview from practice Thursday with the Marlies. Great attitude and he doesn't seem to be the kind of guy to to sulk at all.