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Keith Tkachuk (Matthew Tkachuks father) was a guest on TSN Toronto 1050
Here are some quotes:
Keith when talking about the Panthers
"This is do or die for the Panthers right now…they're a soft team and they're getting everything they deserve right now… they should be a…
— David R (@David954FLA) March 29, 2023
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This mf spittin
Yeesh. On the flip side, it’s gotta be said that Barky in particular is taking significantly less shit now that he has Chuckie to hype him up.
BARS
Zito needs to figure out what he wants this team to be. I respect the guy, but idk how the additional cap space is going to bring in someone who will fix what we saw last game. We just burned a year of this cores prime, are we going to do the same next year? Feels like we have some guys who want an early summer.
He’s correct. The problem is, this is team is not built to be a heavy team that punishes puck carriers on the forcheck and disrupts passing plays with their physicality. We don’t have the right players to run that type of style.
This team is built to be a quick transition/puck possession team that either generates chances off the rush or establishes the zone and allows their playmakers to set guys up for scoring chances.
The problem is, we are trying to hard to be the former rather than the later and it’s a continuation of how we played in the postseason last year. Last year we thrived on our transition and possession game and it allowed our skilled players to flourish. Come postseason we abandon that outright, off of some misguided sentiment that you have to be a bruising team in order to make it the distance. So now we have these players not suited for physical style of play trying to be more physical than teams who are but for that exact purpose. Long story short, we don’t go as far as we probably should have and our exit is rather humiliating.
So rather than understand that our approach was wrong and we need to stick to our identity, we instead double down on that notion that we need to be physical and play “playoff hockey”. We bring in a coach that runs the dump and chase heave forcheck styles in the hopes that the team adopts the style and takes us all the way.
All it really ends up doing is forcing players to play a style they aren’t comfortable with, leading to them being hesitant on the ice and becoming mistake prone. This in turn leads to losses and wildly inconsistent play.
The sad part about all of this is that the prior two seasons should have been beacons of hope for the fanbase. The team was finally playing to their potential and had developed into a legitimate contender. All they needed was the experience in the playoff and to get familiar with being under the lights. Instead we ended up becoming the answer to the question: What would have happened is the 2019 Lightning or the 2021 Avs blew things up and changed their style of play.
Been saying this for 6-7 years. We are so soft.
Oof… But, where’s the lie?