Nature's Minister Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 He was physical and we all like physical play I hope. He was also not out of position so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJayDevil Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 More than pretty good, he was the best Dman out there, again. He was stellar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smelly Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Second in a row in my book. Hopefully this is the guy we see in the playoffs, because it sure looks like he's gonna suit up . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJD Jester Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 He was physical and we all like physical play I hope. He was also not out of position so much. Credit where credit was due. He was very good tonight. <JESTER> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinkan Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Giroux played a great game too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Devsrule Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Besides Brown I thought the D was perfect. I saw Hale throw a good check on Balje or whatever his name is. The good thing is that he will only get better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundstrom Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 neider was the best guy out there. as usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanity_gallops Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 A positive David Hale thread? Holy shiznite. Hale was definitely playing well tonight. I wonder if he's someone who gets up for the big games easier than smaller games.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekes Head Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 A positive David Hale thread? Holy shiznite.Hale was definitely playing well tonight. I wonder if he's someone who gets up for the big games easier than smaller games.... Like I said last week, Hale was the whipping boy of the week. I think Brown is the whipping boy of this week, but he deserves it, and fans have not liked him for a while...ehh, maybe we'll find out more who the whipping boy will be tomorrow, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanity_gallops Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 I think Brown is the whipping boy of this week, but he deserves it, and fans have not liked him for a while...ehh, maybe we'll find out more who the whipping boy will be tomorrow, eh? Next week's whipping boy will be Friesen or Langenbrunner. Just watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brodeurfanatic Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 *hale* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msweet Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Hale did play a good game. Hale made some nice plays. He usually makes some nice plays. And when he's our #3 defensemen in 2005, he will make more nice plays. That is not the point. Let a real NHL forward (none on the Ranger$) pressure him, and 1 out of 3 times he'll cough up the puck. The translation of all of this is that you play with Brown or Hale in the playoffs and one or both of them, will cost you at least one game in a series with a mistake. Mistakes lose playoff games. Good plays are made every shift in the playoffs. It is about playing 60 minutes without making a huge blunder. I'm not sure Hale, Martin, or Brown can do that in the playoffs. Quite frankly, Albelin is more trustworthy in that situation. Lou has set us up so that I will be proven wrong or right. Since we ARE going to play with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Is Colin White a mistake free defenseman? What about Scott Niedermayer? I've seen him turn the puck over in the slot with 5 minutes remaining in a tied Game 7 ECF against Ottawa. I remember Eric Desjardins overskating a puck at the sideboards last year, Langenbrunner scooped it up, and whipped it over Roman Checkmanek's shoulder for the only goal of the game. Defensemen fuck up sometimes. It's a fact of life. Stevens does, Rafalski does, everybody does. The question is, when your defenenseman effs up, does he have good support? Brodeur Stevens Rafalski Niedermayer White Martin I think Hale will have good support when he effs up, and I don't think that the fact he played well against the Rangers should detract from his accomplishment. The Rangers still had a lot of good forwards out there, and they had a lot of skilled young players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triumph Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Exactly, blackjak. Niedermayer and White are hardly mistake-free. And remember last year's train wreck of a third pairing? Albelin played pretty well, but Daneyko, Tverdovsky, and Smehlik each took turns being awful. Hale can play mistake-free, he will just end up icing the puck a lot. Same with Albelin. That's what the third pairing ended up doing against the Senators last season. With the addition of Hrdina, we can be a little more confident on faceoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msweet Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 What I meant by mistake free, was no humongous mistakes. Brown has gone several games in a row giving up goals, and Hale not far behind. We are not a team to score many goals, esp in the playoffs. You can reason all you want, Hale and Brown scare me, particularly against heavy forechecking teams like, TB, Philly, Tor and Ottawa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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