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Originally Posted by Bingo
But don't you look to what they're doing and ask yourself if that's what they're being told to do, or are you looking at players making mistakes?
I know I do.
If the powerplay featured three guys standing in front of the net trying to screen at the same time I'd be all over the coaching staff for having a ridiculous system.
Nobody coaches to turn over the puck. Nobody coaches to take stupid penalties.
Skill players aren't making skilled plays, and those said skill plays are the part of the game that isn't coached, it's feel, read and guts.
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Zone entries on the PP are coached. Early you would see things like dropping and trying to skate through a wall that they didn't back off, not adjust to the weak side.
Sorry, the coaches can't be given a pass. It doesn't make sense.