As a Red Wing fan, myself I assure you the hate he gets is a sign of respect from his haters.. 😅 you just have to read between the lines .. I mean what else are you supposed to do besides HATE when you're feeling sour about being scored on or don't like the team that he plays on.. you're salty it's a natural reaction😂😂😂

Barkov's also great

My dad was raging when he saw it, but he is more of an old school hockey guy😂

Exacly, not our fault that GK's cant stop it rn. if they figure it out he'll just stop.

We hate it because it's not hockey. There's no scenario where that happens in a game. The leafs are garbage on defense, but even they don't string their goalie out to dry for an agonizing 10 seconds. A breakaway is exciting because of the intensity and speed. So here's how you fix the shootout: Put a defender on the opposing blue-line to chase. Bring excitement and speed to an otherwise boring shooting drill.

@@DiamondKingVideos or just remove the shootout and make the game end in a tie instead.. if neither are good enough to win in 65 minutes then they are even

@@FlyHenryFly Playoffs then?

Love it lmao

They are the ones doing the eliminating. Not exactly high stakes

Its also not trolling lmfao, nothing high risk or flashy about the play.

Get over yourself

Toxicity at its finest. Bet you love the knights playing salary cap games too

Cause its really fucking hard. If it was so easy to be effective then other guys would do it, but its because he can handle the puck so well and read the goalie to utilize the time it buys. I feel like a good few other players have tried at least in practice and found it just doest work for em

​​@@alshoutcasting9101 Patrick Kane did it a couple times one a witnessed personally against the Flyers at the LCA

@@bbqbeer1883 I mean Patrick Kane is also one of the best players of this generation so if anyone is gonna be able to do it, that mf would.

That picture made me hate him probably 30x more.

Да, согласен! Обидно, что Кузю тогда обделили и не дали заслуженную награду.

The Caps don't have their Cup without Kouzy!

It's going to set a playoff record for embellishment calls, I'm sure!

I’m a little relieved the Canes ended it so quick. This series is going be huge for the Rangers.

It sucks to watch and its a spectator sport. It can gtfo

Its called Cheese in video gaming, its effective but not the intended design of the game. You would never be able to approach the net this slowly from open play, it creates a very specific scenario that clearly benefits him while goalies don't have much if any recourse other than playing it perfect. A shot clock on penalty shots is the clear answer, nothing crazy fast but not 15 seconds either.

in my opinion it really doesnt fall under that category even though it is really strong there is a correct and achievable way to play this that simplifies it very well (this MIGHT make the save a bit easier, but it WILL reduce the total amount of options for the skater). What you want to do is essentially embrace the "no play" nature of the play, when Varlamov goes for the poke check thats no joke no shade, #1 on the list of ways to get scored on in this situation. You want to be less aggressive and just commit to staying square to the puck and blocking as much of the net as possible while keeping your hands in an active position. This is easily achievable at such slow speeds, and what this accomplishes is that the skater isnt able to exploit you in the same way and now has to make a play happen with severly reduced speed which should make reacting to their choices a lot easier. In a lot of cases like this the skater will be very close into the net by the time they are able to realize the weight of making the play happen is all on them, because most mistakes from the goalie will happen when the skater is within range of the goalies stick. What the goalie left to deal with is mostly one of two scoring opportunities. The first is just a straight up shot on goal which if you play the spacing correctly shouldnt have much room at all to be truly dangerous. The second is more dependant on the skater, but its a close up stuffy kind of play where the majority of the time that puck is going low and you can move to your stomach and slide your legs back to stop it relatively easily. If the skater decides to commit to making a play earlier, the actual scoring opportunity itself is more open but the low speed of the skater will make the play they go for much more readable and speaking from experience if they do realize early theres a very high chance they chose to pull to the side and shoot high glove. Obviously a really talented guy may pass the point where they can go for a truly prime scoring chance and still find a way to deke the goalie with such minimal speed and space, but I think rewarding talented play like that is a good thing. Other than that once the skater is committed to making a play happen then and only then is the time where a poke checks and other more aggressive plays could be used because the skater would need to make wider, sweeping puck movements to have an angle on open net, which given their proximity to the goalie should be a very vulnerable/fragile play that has a larger window to disrupt. small edit: its a lot more about the mental game than the actual danger the skater presents, which makes simplifying it more easy and more optimal than outplaying it.

It's disrespect to the game. Don cherry would be pissed

@@Nickh4929if it works it works

@@Nickh4929how 😂. It’s a very effective move, it’s just strategy. If you don’t like it, don’t watch. Hockey doesn’t need more angry boomers.

Lmao disrepect? 80s and 90s were goon eras like scott stevens​@@Nickh4929

@@Nickh4929 The game doesn't have an opinion about whether it's being disrespected or not. You know what people opposed due to it "disrespecting the game"? Two line passes. As for Don Cherry, good, let him be pissed - he made hockey worse with his opinions in my eyes.

Yeah wow if only every goalie and goalie coach in the league had your wisdom

It sucks to watch and its a spectator sport. They literally make millions of dollars to entertain us. This move is pure ass.

i feel like you need to have extreme patience just to be able to stop that shot. and maybe luck

Yeah who even cares about integrity, right? Just win at any cost, like a true goofball

i was thinking the same thing

or goalies could just start saving it. Stop making more Anti-Brodeur like rules.

Jets sure but Islanders?

Yeah islanders????

@@Crmick-vo7pn they were like 12-0 to end the year

And 1-4 in the postseason what’s your point

@@ts20bombs30canes were the worst team we could have played. We would have had a better chance against the rangers

So you just dont like exciting hockey, then. You must love the full trap

Those two were amazing in the cup run. That breakaway goal coming from the Ovi pass was legendary.

as a rangers fan you better hope we dont get more of us there like the last few games this season, should be a fun series though, i know people hate rangers fans filling up away stadiums so i figured id say something lol

@@thegreatmrt I totally understand. Serves Raleigh fans right for not booking the tickets quick enough. Thats one thing that's been great for home fans . We here can make a last minute decision to go to game and still get a seat. Back when we lived in Detroit you had to have big connections to have a chance even week ahead. This series should be wild. Good luck!

As a Canes fan, can confirm

It sucks to watch, and the sport literally exists as entertainment

@@Lubey4U well I always found him move entertaining, so we'll just have to agree to disagree.

how did anybody seriously have the jets advancing is beyond me. no wonder hockey discussions are garbage these days. nobody has a ue anymore

When a player gets taken down on a clear break away shot the refs can award a penalty shot. That's what happened here.

I'm new as well, but there's a lot of curmudgeons it seems in the older fan base online

That was the sauciest shot I've seen. I don't get it. ​@@DigitalLogos

I'm 52 and been watching since the late 70s , There's just a rotten old guard in fans and media that still think its 1981 and pi**ss on everything .

​@@rosariocannistraro3561ohhhhhwow. thanks for your insight OG! I was so confused as a new hockey fan 😂

well said. that's the only reason people complain

Ironically the trick to beat it is a flying poke but you have to time it IMPECCABLY

When have thy witnessed the successful poketh of the check?

@@Crmick-vo7pn key is flying, poke doesn’t work cuz he’s never actually in range. Its a situational play at best ur talking factors like what hand he’s deeking to at what point. I don’t mean to be an ass but this is a move with complexity on the goaltending end that a fan will never understand. But the flying poke has worked on up to the D1 level of player in my own experience.

​​@@Crmick-vo7pn Kochetkov successful flying poke check against Tkachuk penalty shot earlier this season

Yeah that worked, but it wasn’t against the snoozy Kuzzy himself tho