All those big hits are nice to watch and they look great on the stat sheet...but so many of them are not necessary...his efforts on a lot of those hits would be better spent getting back on D. A lot of them are just fluff and frustration.
I'd rather him show that than the rest of the team doing nothing. I'd LOVE to know how many open shots our players just passed on.
The Rangers were notorious for diving in front of everything. In games 1 and 2 it totally worked, we would fake and they would dive and we would shoot. Hell, Ribs to Green was off of that exact play. Except the Rangers adjusted and stopped diving every time our sticks went up and we continued to pass and screw around and instead of just putting rubber on the net they would panic, shoot, and have the puck cleared out. They didn't adjust, the Rags did.
Oatest did a good job of keeping these guys heads in the game when they were down later in the season, I don't know what the fuck happened in the last 2 games.