Jonathan Toews Goal of the year candidate

Panthers · Senior Member

RE: Jonathan Toews Goal of the year candidate

WildJamie · Senior Member

Of course a dman should stop a forward one on one almost every time. The forward has to carry the puck on his stick and get through the dman... all the dman has to do is knock the guy off the puck, puck off the stick, steer the guy wide, slow him enough for another player to catch up...
If it was even close to 50/50, NHL games would have final scores of 12-10 on a regular basis, even with the great goaltending in the NHL now.

Sabres · Guru

well, I guess we just see the game differently Jamie.

BluesGM · Guru

Sabres wrote:

Forwards have pretty much an equal chance of beating defencemen one way or another as they have in stopping them. Whether its by passing it off, dumping it in or deking him out. I cant believe some of you think that a dman should stop guys 100% of the time lol.

"passing it off" - not actually beating a defenseman 1 on 1... if anything it's arguably 2 on 1 because you are using one of your teammates

"dumping it in" - the puck still is up for grabs, if the defenseman's any good he'll turn in the path of the oncoming forward so he will stay ahead of the forward.... more than likely anyways, the forward that dumps the puck in hardly ever is the first to touch the puck...

"deking him out" - probably the only true 1 on 1 attempt to deke someone out, and most times defensemen will just take the body of the forward, granted some dekes work out nicely and are displayed on the night's highlight reel, but i would say 9 times out of 10, a deke isn't that efficient...

where would i put the toews goal? great move and it's certainly a great goal, but the defense coverage was awful and theodore was in the middle of nowhere on the goal.... sort of reminds me of the spezza goal against montreal....