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Originally Posted by timbit
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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The best part is that every now and then, the team will use the stretch and chip, which mixes things up for the opposition to defend. Also shows maturity on GG's part for incorporating elements of Hartley's system into his. That is one thing I have really noticed in the Flames attack, is versatility.
GG/coaching staff has created different "looks" at the opposition in its attack. From the variation in the overall "system" as noted to above and even down to the powerplay which has two distinct units that play differently.