Kukla's Korner Hockey

Kukla's Korner Hockey

Praising Mike Green

12/19/2014 at 9:37am EST

from Alex Prewitt of Capitals Insider,

Here was the Mike Green everyone knew, or at least the one everyone remembered, revived and tearing through all three zones, while everyone else tried to catch up. He zipped across the defensive blue line. He caught one opponent flat-footed and blew straight past. He faked a slap shot and raced by another. He bolted through the right faceoff circle, curled parallel to the goal line, angled himself and, with a simple nudge, slipped the winning pass back into the middle as the Blue Jackets stared.

“He looks slow, but he’s buzzing pretty fast,” forward Michael Latta said. “Hell of a player.”

“Ghost-like,” Coach Barry Trotz said later. “You might not notice him, might not notice them, then – bang – he’s there on offense and he creates something.”

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