Opie

Doc Rivers tried to implement a no "You know" or "Umm" rule the year after the championship, all that happened was instead of players saying fillers, and everyone moving on, everyone started pointing at each other like "oooohhhh gotcha" and cracking jokes at each other for saying fillers.

So Doc dropped the rule.

Let's see them

Watch the last game, watch him enter the zone standing up, both zones not just the offensive zone. Watch him as he floats between face off dot and blueline in both zones. Standing straight up, not defending a passing lane, just coasting around the zone.

Sure it is not as severe as Ovies play but I said plays similar to that, if I was not clear that I meant floating then I apologize.

Mule is playing very hard hockey most of the time but still floats too much for me. 

The point of my post was that players of all nationalities float, whether it is the game winning play or not or as obvious as Ovie's.

 

backstrom...

 

please show me the video of mule doing that...

 

Are you seriously telling me you have never seen mule float through either offensive or the defensive zone?

It doesn't have to be as obvious as with Ovie, but Mule floats his way around the ice very very often!

I can show you countless examples of him floating all around the ice, I just have a hard time believing you have never seen it!?

Lack of skill or execution is excusable, lack of effort is never excusable.

Putting yourself out of position because you are trying to stop a goal, is a hell of a lot different than not trying!

Two strides between the blue line and the goal and he is in range to lift the Rags player's stick. If he does that much and the goal goes in still, hey at least he tried. 

I remember a failry similar play with Feds against LA in the playoffs, but I also remember a few plays like that from Mule, Nash, and many other players of different nationalities!

Russian born players are no more hard working or lazy than any other generalized nationality in the game!

I thought this was going to be about Daryl Reagh using 25 cent words that don't really sound like the belong in a hockey game.

But I guess drinking every time and athlete uses a filler in an interview would get me smashed a hell of a lot quicker though!