NHL 15-16: wife-beaters, adulterers, cokeheads, rapists, pill-poppers, AND METHODISTS

[HedleyLamarr]

As Admiral and I have alluded to....coaches are starting to put some strategy and game planning into these 3-on-3 overtimes.

Nashville's had a couple games go to overtime in the last few days. I've also seen a couple other games go to overtime the last couple few days. Looks like the initial strategy is to win the faceoff with their second- or third-line guys and have the puck-carrier retreat to behind his team's net (usually, the lone defenseman). One of the forwards comes to join him behind the goal line and take the puck away and move forward. The lone defenseman goes to the bench for a change and a third forward comes onto the ice. The three forwards then start to play catch with the puck, constantly going inside the offensive zone and back out, forcing the defending team to move around and not be able to make line changes due to the longer distance to their bench. As the game of keep-away is going on, the team with the puck tries to get their scoring line onto the ice with singular player changes. The team with the puck tries to get the other team to wear down on defending so that either passing/shooting lanes open up...or the defending team gets so tired they either ice the puck or send it in deep just to get a change.

There was a point tonight where Stamkos was on the ice for nearly two minutes in overtime because the Predators played their game of keep-away in the offensive zone (after Tampa did the same for about 1:30 to begin overtime). It wasn't really the fast-paced 3-on-3 game until like the last 40 seconds of overtime. The game went to the shootout, of course.

If your first impression of 3-on-3 overtime play was that up-and-down free-flowing game we saw with Philadelphia and Tampa....that's going to be gone soon.

[The_Admiral]

Hey, crackerjack analysis here. Thanks for breaking all that down; God knows no television personality would.

My fear is that coaches are going to have this thing nailed down just as the season rounds the bend into its Every Game Goes Into Overtime period. I'm really not enthusiastic about any of this. What little I've seen of 3-on-3, as I mentioned in this thread or the anti-thread, didn't really do it for me.

[zpqmaowl]

Todd Richards out, John Tortorella in for the Blue Jackets. Gulp.

[Sport]

NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO

[teddthebucfan]

Todd Richards out, John Tortorella in for the Blue Jackets. Gulp.

Wait. I was under the impression that the Jackets wanted to win a game.

[Sport]

Living nightmare.

[CS85]

Oh god.

[sportstar1212]

Oh good god, this is going to be :censored:ing hilarious!

[zpqmaowl]

Because Tortorella was hired in season, the Blue Jackets have to send a second-round pick over to Vancouver as compensation, per the CBA.

[Zachary15]

[Sodboy13]

Attention, Auston Matthews Derby participants:

[monkeypower]

I wonder if Torts knows the cannon isn't real and that he can't use it as a "motivation" tactic.

[Brass]

Torts in the 'Lumbus. This is incredible to witness.

[FGM13]

Oh no. This is going to be a very interesting season in Columbus.

[Crabcake]

Washington puts up 6 on Calgary. Ovechkin gets point no. 900 with a goal.

[rams80]

Columbus: You have forsaken yourself.

[AnPheitseog]

Columbus just got a lot more likeable.

[Crabcake]

Columbus just got a lot more likeable.

Depending on who you talk to.

[AnPheitseog]

Columbus just got a lot more likeable.

Depending on who you talk to.

i ike torts, i really do. not a fan of the rest of columbus at all(team), but

[The_Admiral]

From the reading thread:

I thought I'd read before bed so I started Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth.

Prophetic choice of library books. Goodbye Columbus indeed.

lol @ Beej when the Saad-Johansen-Foligno line gets sent out for shot-blocking duty.