Community ManagerI'm not sure what your concern with the first clip is. The D should have dropped back instead of pushing up to the faceoff dot. That would have given them a better chance at defending that play.
MacKinnon's poke looks like it was off target. I'm not really seeing any issues here.
Are you absolute positive that this video is what you viewed? You can CLEARLY see as Faber's stick clips through his own body, delaying when he can physically pokecheck.
As for MacKinnon, stick-on-stick contact essentially tip of the blade against the blade. What do you want me to do there then? I'm going to need a video because I don't know anymore.
I am asking you, honestly: Please stop insulting my intelligence. MacKinnon's poke was off target? Really?
Community ManagerAre you absolute positive that this video is what you viewed? You can CLEARLY see as Faber's stick clips through his own body, delaying when he can physically pokecheck.
The stick touches the skate of the shooter after the shot is taken. I don't see how this is causing a delay with pokechecking.
As for MacKinnon, stick-on-stick contact essentially tip of the blade against the blade. What do you want me to do there then? I'm going to need a video because I don't know anymore.
I'm not seeing where the blades are touching. They look close, but the replay would need to be zoomed in more to know for sure. To me, it looks like the stick is pulled back to make the pass at the same time MacKinnon's stick comes close.
You're absolutely positive that in this screenshot, right in front of the net, Faber isn't having his stick clip through his body? You're absolutely positive that this is a normal direction for his stick to go when someone presses R1 to poke the puck? Up and through the body, to the opposite direction of the puck/stick you would logically poke otherwise?
And in this screenshot, you're absolutely positive that MacKinnon makes zero contact with the stick blade and that as the stick blade is being pushed ahead to make the pass, MacKinnon's stick shouldn't have interfered with that whatsoever? I mean I'm just trying to get some clarification here because honestly, if this isn't how pokechecking is supposed to work then I'm going to have to stop playing the game because then pokechecking works in a different way than what I've watched guys like Duncan Keith, Patrice Bergeron and Aleksander Barkov do it.
In 25 this would have knock the puck loose
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