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Originally Posted by kirant
From what I've seen Aliu is the same as he has been for the Heat...a hard hitting grinder with decent hands.
He's a project at any rate. Give him time...I'd say 2-3 years before we can really call him as good or bad.
I know it seems all I do is ask questions is out of our local frequent Heat watchers, but I was curious what type of coach Ward in creating a team. It's obvious that he's a ballsy coach who doesn't hesitate to do call out players...but what type of game does he coach? He started off saying he wanted to be a puck possession team...did that ever come true?
Curious as a lot of people are thinking of Ward as the next Flames head coach.
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Ward is an amazing coach IMO. He's a "player's coach", no doubt about it. He's very approachable from everything I've seen and read from players and, in return, those players want to work hard for him and get wins.
In terms of the way he coaches, he teaches a puck possession game but not in the dump-and-chase sense. He wants his players to continuously go after whoever has the puck and finish a check IF it doesn't put your team at risk. Sometimes the players will dump-and-chase, and other times they'll carry the puck in.
Whatever will get them the puck, they'll do (most nights haha). However, he does insist they play a structured game. What that structure or system is, I have no idea. But you can almost see the difference between games where they lose (where Ward says they didn't play the system) and games where they win or lose (where Ward says they did play the system). It's kind of tough to explain haha.
I'm not much help in terms of explaining how Ward coaches, all I know is the players think the world of him.
Everyone should check out this video, BTW. It's on Ward: