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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| nullterm wrote on Wed, 22 November 2023 13:00 |
| Dragon_Matt wrote on Wed, 22 November 2023 11:58 |
I disagree that Nurse and Bouchard's weakness this season is overblown. Nurse likely has more of a spotlight due to his contract, but there have been dozens of times this year where they each looked lost in our end. Watch next time an opposing player skates from behind the net to the corner. They stay on the man until he crosses the trapezoid line, then they will back off and hug the close post. It HAS to be part of the d-zone design... it's the only thing that makes any sense. But it exposes us SO much when we give NHL caliber forwards that time with no pressure in our end.
This has happened repeatedly, so like you said above, coaches pre-adapted their game plan knowing what we were going to do.
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They are confused. When the transition from one guy to another happens, the other team knows to capitalize.
This video covers the breakdown and how it's being exploited.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltd14FTiKhs
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The long and the short of this is that it's more of a system issue than a player issue.
We've seen that before - the infamous Eakins Swarm called for a two-man forecheck on attackers in the defensive zone. It left people wide open ALL THE TIME. As much as Eakins said that his defencemen didn't understand the basics of defending, it wasn't really them that was the issue, it was the system that he was putting in place.
We have no perfect defencemen. They all have development points. They all have areas of weaknesses, some of which they may not be as able to improve (Desharnais' skating, for instance). But the systemic flaws are system issues, not player issues. Either the coaches need to find a way to adapt the system, or they need to better teach the players how to make the system work.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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