The 5 man group/ short passes would work better if guys were moving faster. Too many passes to players moving slow, or standing still which made it easy for defenders to close in.
Zone exits need a lot of work. All 3 games we saw several instances of the D moving the puck up the boards, but no forward there in position. Opposing D seemed to have not much trouble identifying and breaking up zone exits at the blue one. Not enough speed/ thinking too much about what they are supposed to be doing imo.
D zone assignments looked very rigid, but the players also often looked gassed which might explain it.
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