NHL 16-17 Season Official Thread <3
12-10-2016
, 05:14 PM
12-10-2016
, 08:48 PM
12-10-2016
, 08:56 PM
12-10-2016
, 09:07 PM
12-10-2016
, 09:07 PM
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Will over skill is an awful message. An eller-type player is a perfectly skilled guy at muscling out a territorial advantage. Slightly more room on the boards here, a slightly easier pass to a center there. How else do we think additional shot attempts are created? It looks like grinding to the old timers, but they mistake that for not being a skill. A lot of people don't. It's a big problem in coaching. The caps and a lot of other teams fall into this trap of trying to make offensive talent play like grinders, when it basically neuters them. Eller and Williams should put up good possession regardless of who they play with, and if I'm designing that line, I tell Connolly/burakovsky to look for a breakaway or a speedaway breakout pass close to every time. I don't put Tom Wilson making an awful sandgrit play and waste all the open space that Williams creates.
Now here's the kicker, if they put burakovsky on that line and tell him to grind like eller does, burakovsky turns into a worse Tom Wilson.
he can't outmuscle anyone in the D zone, he's flat footed all the time, and they are constantly in desperation mode trying to chip the puck out off the boards. Wtf is that? A bad coaching message.
Now here's the kicker, if they put burakovsky on that line and tell him to grind like eller does, burakovsky turns into a worse Tom Wilson.
he can't outmuscle anyone in the D zone, he's flat footed all the time, and they are constantly in desperation mode trying to chip the puck out off the boards. Wtf is that? A bad coaching message.
12-10-2016
, 09:39 PM
12-10-2016
, 10:02 PM
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, 10:28 PM
12-10-2016
, 10:47 PM
