 RDOilerfan
Messages: 3789
Registered: January 2016
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One thing I am curious to see with the coaching staff and more specifically Coffey is if he can relate to Bouchard better than Manson did to hopefully get him to improve as a dman in the areas he's lacking. I saw an interview with Bouchard talking about the 2 coaches. Manson was a mean, nasty, tough dman and according to Bouchard, a lot of his message was how to try to make Bouchard play a lot harder. Which I agree with. I don't think it's really difficult to play defense if you don't play with a certain level of hardness. Just my opinion, but I feel like there was a level of resistance to the message from Manson. But according to Bouchard, Coffey is talking to him more about skating and puck moving which is probably more suited to how Bouchard wants to play.
So I will be curious to see if that translate more into Bouchard finding away to improve on his defense in his own zone when the message is coming from Coffey who probably played a style closer to how Bouchard plays which was more offensive.
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