Throughout a hockey season, players often move up and down the lineup, and at times, it can be challenging to find chemistry. However, sometimes things just click.<\/p>\n
Aatu R\u00e4ty has played over 20 minutes of five-on-five ice time with six different forwards this season and has had a positive control of the goal share with five of them.<\/p>\n
With R\u00e4ty\u2019s spot in the centre depth chart, linemates come and go like rain clouds through Vancouver \u2013 sometimes they last a day, but sometimes they last for weeks. R\u00e4ty doesn\u2019t mind the fluidity with his linemates and says that he has enjoyed every line he\u2019s been a part of this season.<\/p>\n
Drew O\u2019Connor has been the most consistent linemate for R\u00e4ty this season, and the duo feels good about their ability to funnel pucks into the offensive zone and then turn those possessions into scoring chances.<\/p>\n
Recently, O\u2019Connor has been rewarded for his hard work, scoring four goals and adding three assists for a total of seven points in his last seven games. R\u00e4ty says he felt that coming on as he and O\u2019Connor continued to grow chemistry as the season progressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve gotten one percent better every day as a duo, and between games three to ten, we just couldn\u2019t find goals. We knew we were right there, and now we\u2019re seeing there are times where you are just hot and then you score a lot,\u201d said R\u00e4ty.<\/p>\n
He added that it\u2019s interesting because you can just keep playing the same way, but when you get a few good bounces, those scoring chances can quickly turn into goals.<\/p>\n
Over the past two games, Jake DeBrusk has joined the R\u00e4ty-O\u2019Connor duo, and the line has found immediate success as a trio.<\/p>\n
In 25:42 of five-on-five ice time together, the line has outscored its opposition 2-1 and has 15 scoring chances while only giving up six.<\/p>\n
\u201cJD knew our mentality is to be really simple and try to outwork the opponent,\u201d said R\u00e4ty. \u201cWe get our chances from there, and we also try to be really solid in our own end, which I think we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n
R\u00e4ty added that sometimes a new line can take some time to gel, and there needs to be lots of discussion on the bench during games. He thinks this trio has done a good job of addressing something small after many of their shifts, and trying not to over-communicate and complicate the way their line wants to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cJD and OC are very detail-oriented guys, and those are the types of players that I like playing with,\u201d said R\u00e4ty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout a hockey season, players often move up and down the lineup, and at times, it can be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-282823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}