Boston – What Team USA makes Team -And not only a collection of all-stars-Jaccob is Slavin on a replica.
This is not anticipated. This is the reason why the team USA coach Mike Sulivan said that when asked what the Carolina Hurricane Defenseman meant for the men’s national team in 4 nations.
Practically everything is a spectacle about the team USA. The way they win is a spectacle. His personality is glasses on glasses. Even after each target, listening to the song “Free Bird” is a spectacle; The team draws a response from the fans of the USA that it is expected that a bald eagle is going under the backdrop of fireworks throughout the region.
And while Slavin is opposed to that spectacle, what he does for the team is one of the main reasons that the spectacle is present in the first place. The goal and those who score those goals receive the wholesale of attention. Target prevention is not always a guarantee of praise.
But this is what defines Slavin. It is also that with another win over Canada in the face-off finals of 4 nations, the US can help in sitting in the hockey world (8 pm ET, ESPN/ESPN+/Disney+,
Team USA Defenseman Jake Sanderson said, “He is very low and he is one of my favorite players to watch honestly.” “He simply fly under the radar and performs great drama. He is a very solid defensive and such a great skater. It is a kind of characteristic in his game someday.”
Put in tournamentA big thing to talk was that the team would look like the protective structure of the USA. While Connor Hellbuke was long considered the early goalkeeper, there was an idea that whoever would be in front of America’s goals fits opponents.
It is a group that initially included the Noris Trophy winner, Quin Hughes, who was excluded due to injury.
But it also comes with the warning that the rise of those Pak-moving defensemen has attracted less attention to the defensive-minded defenseman.
Or to see it in another way: NHL’s affinity for two-way quarterbacks has come at the cost of those shutdown defensemen. And if his team is a quarterback for what they do in the warly area of the USA team, then it in turn makes Slavin a shutdown cornerback.
“A man of Jaccob, who is one of the best defenders in my mind and one of the best defended defensemen in the league,” Sulivan said. “His size, his mobility, his access, his ability to read plays, he closes on people, how strong he is in war areas. I don’t know if there is a defenseman in the league who is more aggressive or better to the crowd Jaccob does compared to the rescue.
Many things have contributed Team USA has seen the most consecutive team in the 4 nations tournament. One of them is a restrictive defensive structure, which if the rest fails, can rely on the helbebuke, one of the greatest goals who have ever been produced to include the situation. Is.
In fact, arriving at that point against team USA is rare for opponents. Finland scored only once, as Canada did. The United States won both the games that faced Sweden irrelevant 2–1 defeat on Monday as it was already eligible for the title game.
The most amazing part of Sweden’s two goals? Slavin was on ice for both.
Earlier, he had logged in more than 45 combined 5-on-5 and short-hand minutes without scoring a goal. He leads the team of Team USA with an average ice time of 21:31 per game, while anchoring a penalty Kill that has not allowed against the power-play goal.
Sweden and Tampa Bay Lighting Defenseman Victor Headman said, “He is super hard to play. I’m a de and I don’t go against him.” “The way he is on the way, the way he breaks the pakis and is such a great skater.”
Whatever Slavin does is in the details, but there are times when it becomes enough to see everyone. There was a case of victory over Canada, when the Colorado was growing rapidly for a zone entry while ruling the avalanche superstar center and the Heart Trophy winner Nathan McCinone, as he has often done so in his NHL career.
Just when it appeared, McCinon got an opening, Slavin was there – forcing one of the most dangerous players of the game to rethink his approach.
“Yes, he is defensively incredible and does very few things that are difficult to notice,” Hanifin said, who was a team companion with Slavin for three sessions in Carolina. “Just his stick. He breaks so many plays that are difficult to break.
“He is a great skater; he is always limiting and limiting the time and location of an opponent. He is one of the best in this game.”
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Team USA and Jake Otner, a goalkeeper of Dallas stars, said he always knew that Slavin was reduced, but in fact he was more appreciated for what he does by playing with him in 4 nations.
Otner said, “Before he ever happens,” he takes stuff. “” It’s never time to develop, and he just reads the game so well and is very smart. I am sure that those pills in Carolina like to play for them. “
Slavin has an aggressive appearance. They have seven seasons of more than 30 points, and are tampering with the eighth season, with 20 points through 56 games in this NHL season. Overall, he had 292 points in 721 career games. For comparison, Hughes have scored 392 points in only 412 games.
But another detail that speaks for Slavin’s effectiveness is that he is less risk for punishment, despite continuous playing in high -risk conditions (abundant minutes) on the basis of night.
The 30 -year -old Slavin is more than an average of over 22 minutes per game for his career, yet he has earned only 94 total penalty minutes in those 721 games. Another comparison: Team USA Forward Brady Takchuk finished second in NHL with 134 penalty minutes in the previous season.
Sulivan explained that the team USA wanted to form a well -round team that was presented in any situation.
By adding Slavin to its roster, Team USA has done more and more work in all situations on the face of 4 nations. And now, they have put them in position to win all this.
Sulivan said, “It has been a large part of our group’s ability to be defensively stingy.” “He is a major part of our penalty kilt. He helps us in our net front. They are the type of skill sets or complementary skills that we were watching when we were keeping this group together.
“The man cannot be the man who ends at the scoring sheet or (‘SportsCenter’), he is just the man who helps you win.”
