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Originally Posted by Jmac
The worst part is that he's not even near the goalie. He's coming down from the blue line and at least 15 feet from the crease when the goalie passes the puck out and there's no chance it gets to him. It would be different if there was a clear path, but he doesn't care what the situation is. I've tried reasoning with him and he just refuses to listen. How many times have we been scored on because of it ? A lot. How many times has he got the pass from the goalie and we went down the ice to score a goal ? I don't think I've ever seen us do it. There's no upside to it.
We lost 2 games directly as a result of his calling for the puck last night (1 where the GWG was scored, another where the GTG was scored and then they won in OT) and that's not even including the game where we were up by 1 with like 10 seconds left and, instead of passing it up the ice or dumping it, he opted to skate around in our zone, turned the puck over, and they scored to tie it up, then we lost in OT. Add another one tonight. We have a tough enough time winning games without spotting teams free goals and, if I had to venture a guess, he's usually spotting around 2 freebies every 3 games.
It pisses me off because he's a good player, but he puts his own agenda ahead of the team.
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In all honestly, as James said we talked it out via text because these discussions he (and anyone else may have been attempting with me) were done through the headset typically which I don't play with sound (or have music on).
Dave brought it up with me, talked to James it's a non-issue I just don't call for the puck any more when its covered. I didn't even know we were getting this serious into it so hence why I took it casually.
Oh, and reached Legend 1 and now have a bluetooth headset, hopefully I can just use it as a mic and not for sound as well...