Smart puck support from 4 receivers requires IQ , skill and work ethic.
Receiving angles, eye contact, being an option more than once, saving your ice, width and depth, creating time and space, someone takes your ice...you take theirs, triangulation.
These concepts and sub principles take time to implement. It is how you create a strong puck possession team,
After 3 years of stretching and chipping and chasing the puck and game, this has become a very smart team that plays with the puck very well and possesses it for a far greater part of the game. 5 up the ice, together, with the puck...5 back with intent and purpose.
The transition has not been easy for him or the players.
GG has done an excellent job of transforming the Flames game and optimizing their amelioration.
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