Is It Shootout-time For CuJo?

It’s weird you say that, because i suggested doing it before the shootout happened to my friend. I figure Joseph has a much larger body to do it better.

I am not in favour of switching goalies for the shootout. It demeans the starter and puts too much pressure on a cold goalie. It’s been done before and it doesn’t work. Our goalies haven’t historically done well in the shootout, but neither have the shooters. We’ve taken 6 shots and scored only 2 times, both scored by Kulemin. It doesn’t matter who is in the net if we can’t score. Can’t save or score in the shootout.

Also, Jacob it’s not about a “bigger body” to do better in the shootout. It has to do with positioning, which Toskala has struggled with in the shootout. He’s backing up waayy too much!! He was on the goalline last night on the winning goal. Had he not been so far back the puck wouldn’t have hit him then the post then him again and went in. He’s retreating far too quickly and giving away too much of the net.

Vesa would be much better on shootouts if he wouldn’t back into his net so far.. challenge the shooter a little and when he comes in close ATTACK… give him a little pokecheck or a flying stack of the pads! He’s far too passive!

Either way, Blake and Stajan in the shootout is retarded.

Kulemin
Kaberle
Moore
Kubina
Tlusty
Grabovksi and Steen even!

All these guys should be shooting int he shootout before Blake and Stajan!! Atleast Antropov wasn’t in there to shoot it right into the goalies pads. Geez though, theese SO’s are getting annoying to watch when you know we are brutal at them.

Alex Tran doesn’t own the site regardless of the amount of articles he has up there Sugar Hill.

And thanks for sharing your opinion. “No. He shouldn’t”. Good stuff. You’re like the kid that walks into a party and ruins every conversation for everyone and then wonders why no one wants to give him cake.

You’ve gone from ignorant to idiotic. I’d feel bad for this country if you were Canadian.

Then try to lip eachother off over the internet? lol

Very interesting topic, Ron. I was talking about that very thing with my son the other night.
I see pros and cons. The fact that pro baseball teams have a closer for a similar purpose kind of lends itself to the argument.
However, in the overall picture, do you really want a cold back-up coming in when the game is on the line after sitting down for 2 hours?
I just don’t know whether you’re any better off than letting the starter, who has played a spectaculat game so far, do the honours.
As far as shooters go, the first three should always be your top offensive players, which in my mind is Grabovski, Hagman and Kulemin.
These guys are gifted offensive talents who probably spent much of their childhood honing their stickhandling, deking and shooting skills.
Blake and Stajan are basically grinder type players.

It would appear that it shouldn’t be shootout time for Cujo.