Steelers 3 : 1 Flyers (League) 06/12

[waterboy]

For me the defence was far better on Saturday, mainly down to the pairings being changed and us having a much better balance. Haines and Delahey Horne/wands with Paquet and Muir Rioux. That gives us a offensive and defensive guy on each line.

Just watched the highlights myself:
Their 1st-shocking blind pass from Dorr leading to the chance, followed by a terrible rebound from Brown.
2nd- defence pinching (Rioux) meaning zone coverage wasn't good but from the angle the shot came from I would say Brown should make the save, he was in position but seemed to let the shot go through him.
3rd- loads wrong-Haines pinching in, not bad as he is challenging in the right place to try and keep the puck in. Dorr sees haines step in but fails react to cover him and as the play develops he is a forward trying to play defence and it shows. Paquet also pinching on the same play at the same time as Haines and ends up below the hash marks. Just poor choices from experienced guys our team defence has to read the play way better.

1st and 3rd easily avoidable the 2nd I can deal with but all 3 could easily have been avoided. We are on the road defence comes first every time.

[CraggyP]

Dec 9, 2015 9:43:37 GMT waterboy said:

For me the defence was far better on Saturday, mainly down to the pairings being changed and us having a much better balance. Haines and Delahey Horne/wands with Paquet and Muir Rioux. That gives us a offensive and defensive guy on each line.

Just watched the highlights myself:
Their 1st-shocking blind pass from Dorr leading to the chance, followed by a terrible rebound from Brown.
2nd- defence pinching (Rioux) meaning zone coverage wasn't good but from the angle the shot came from I would say Brown should make the save, he was in position but seemed to let the shot go through him.
3rd- loads wrong-Haines pinching in, not bad as he is challenging in the right place to try and keep the puck in. Dorr sees haines step in but fails react to cover him and as the play develops he is a forward trying to play defence and it shows. Paquet also pinching on the same play at the same time as Haines and ends up below the hash marks. Just poor choices from experienced guys our team defence has to read the play way better.

1st and 3rd easily avoidable the 2nd I can deal with but all 3 could easily have been avoided. We are on the road defence comes first every time.

' We are on the road defence comes first every time. '

Yes I agree if we have an attacking force and dont let in 2 as you say bad goals but we still need to score goals to win games and i didnt see many good chances tonight ...so our defence needs improved and our attack needs improved also. Actually the team needs improved and toughened up as Lee got bullied tonight by Fitz. Also nobody responded after big hits and the screening of Brown was well done by them only because nobody stopped it in our defence.