Playfair: "Players know their roles, they just have to execute them"
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"The players are really clear where they have to be on the ice in certain situations. They know our forecheck, they know our neutral zone, they know our defensive-zone responsibilities," Playfair said yesterday.
"The next part is getting them to do that with a lot of passion, a lot of emotion, every shift.
"Now that the teaching part and the clear understanding is in place, it's really important the next part gets put into place and that's the emotion and intensity of playing that way."
So why have they had so much trouble bringing the focus and intensity every game?
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"I don't know if there's one thing that's been preventing it," Playfair said.
"I don't think you can pinpoint and say, 'This is what's being going on.' There's pockets of our game that have been OK and pockets that have been good. It goes back to the consistency of doing it shift to shift to shift. That's not there and that's where we have to improve.
"The structure of the system is in place. The focus of playing it hard every shift isn't consistent."
At some point though, if things do not improve, Jim needs to get mad, lose his temper and show these guys who is boss. This talking head, emontionless crap can only go on for so long. Someone has to show at some point that they actually care.
I would like to see some anger out of the players, I am not asking for them to hit the panic button, but these are suppose to be the most competative guys in hockey and it seems like they are just sitting by and watching the whole team underperform. How about a little of the emotion that we say out of Caralina earlier this year when they were off to a bad start, they had fights in practice, at least that shows they care.
He should start throwing **** in the dressing room. But other then a temper tantrum, there's not much a coach can do to raise the intensity of a player. That's human nature.
I would like to see some anger out of the players, I am not asking for them to hit the panic button, but these are suppose to be the most competative guys in hockey and it seems like they are just sitting by and watching the whole team underperform. How about a little of the emotion that we say out of Caralina earlier this year when they were off to a bad start, they had fights in practice, at least that shows they care.
If they can't be convinced to be passionate or angry enough to fight against an opponent when he takes a run at our best player (kipper), I don't think it will happen in practice. I'd settle for a fight or two in a game just to show that these guys care.
Positive or negative energy. A top coach will use either.....as needed.
Temper tantrums by the coach in the dressing room of a NHL team accomplish little to nothing. What do you do when someone yells at you on the telephone? I , generally, hang up.
At this point, consistently challenging their apparent lack of professionalism, individually and as a team in creative,structured, level headed, yet intense and motivating manner/ demeanour....should be enough to improve the preparation, attitude and focus.....performance.
They have a pretty good charcter group in the room.
Might need to be done a few times in different ways...
A well elocuted "kick in the balls" done in the right way....will get one moving ...
praising the changed behaviour, when it happens, will reinforce the expectations and standards that Playfair demands.
I am pretty sure that Playfair knows how to demand accountability.
Head Coaches....well....the real good ones...motivate their team and its members by sending consistent messages, that are delivered in many different talks/ways throughout the season.
Yelling and screaming is a sign of frustration and not very motivating.
What he says in the press probably has very little correlation to what he is saying in the room.
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On ESPN's wrap-up, Barry Melrose referred to Phaneuf and the hit...
Positive or negative energy. A top coach will use either.....as needed.
Temper tantrums by the coach in the dressing room of a NHL team accomplish little to nothing. What do you do when someone yells at you on the telephone? I , generally, hang up.
At this point, consistently challenging their apparent lack of professionalism, individually and as a team in creative,structured, level headed, yet intense and motivating manner/ demeanour....should be enough to improve the preparation, attitude and focus.
They have a pretty good charcter group in the room.
Might need to be done a few times in different ways...
A well elocuted "kick in the balls" done in the right way....will get one moving ...
praising the changed behaviour, when it happens, will reinforce the expectations and standards that Playfair demands.
I am pretty sure that Playfair knows how to demand accountability.
Head Coaches....well....the real good ones...motivate their team and its members by sending consistent messages, that are delivered in many different talks/ways throughout the season.
Yelling and screaming is a sign of frustration and not very motivating.
What he says in the press probably has very little correlation to what he is saying in the room.
Let's hope so. You could always just bag skate em in practice though too, no?
They have a pretty good charcter group in the room.
I know that common sense indicates this but if a team can't get up emotionally for the first ten games of a season, that really speaks to a lack of character. Don't get me wrong, I think there is a lot of character as you said and I'm sure they'll turn this around, but they have looked like a bunch fat, lazy, millionaires more often than not in the first ten games. They have not looked like a team that has battled hard and not gotten the bounces.
I would like to see some anger out of the players, I am not asking for them to hit the panic button, but these are suppose to be the most competative guys in hockey and it seems like they are just sitting by and watching the whole team underperform. How about a little of the emotion that we say out of Caralina earlier this year when they were off to a bad start, they had fights in practice, at least that shows they care.
This is why I was so dissapointed when Zednik ran Kipper the other night. I expected someone to take exception to that, and stand up for our MVP.
The Flames of the Brian Sutter/Greg Gilbert era were better at standing up for each other. The 03/04 team hated losing, and reinforced it by showing the entire league that they would not be pushed around or back down from any physical challenge.
I know we have deeper, more skilled team now, but I miss that emotion and hatred of failure.
This is why I was so dissapointed when Zednik ran Kipper the other night. I expected someone to take exception to that, and stand up for our MVP.
Yep. Phaneuf was right there and .... nothing.
Even last season Dion would have taken his head off for that. This year "Oh please Mr. Zednik, don't hit our goalie or you will not be invited for tea after the game."
Ugghhhhh...I hate this kind of NHL. Take his freakin' head off for even thinking about touching Kipper!
No emotion at all. No "I hate losing!" in their game either as you touched on. I hate that as well. Just punch something when you're losing to show us you still give a rat's ass about it.
Playfair: "Players know their roles, they just have to execute them"
Ugghhhhh...I hate this kind of NHL. Take his freakin' head off for even thinking about touching Kipper!
