[Jeff Lebowski]

While he put in the work, Lack has struggled in his first season with the Carolina Hurricanes, especially early in the year when he didn’t take to some technical adjustments suggested by Hurricanes goaltending coach David Marcoux. As outlined in November by Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the Hurricanes were asking Lack to make saves with his knees in white ice.
The technical adjustments didn’t play to Lack’s strengths, which are his size, positioning and patience.
“He’s very cerebral,” said Sportsnet’s Corey Hirsch. “He’s a guy that thinks a lot while he’s playing; about his positioning, where things should be, and he’s perfect technically. I think the adjustment hurt him a little bit.”
Playing further out of his crease exposed Lack’s relative weaknesses, like his skating. He has particularly struggled on the toughest shots to stop: shots from dead centre in the high slot, what analytics company Sportlogiq refers to as ‘the red zone.’ On those shots, Lack’s save percentage is over 11 per cent points below league average.

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Newly-acquired Eddie Lack is a different animal. In Vancouver, coach Roland Melanson prefers deep. Here, counterpart David Marcoux wants Lack out further, saying in one team broadcast they like the idea of making saves with knees on the white ice. I was curious about that, because Lack has admitted his skating gets him into trouble sometimes and he prefers to set early. Watching a bit more of his work, you can see he’s asked to get deeper as the play gets closer to him. On the rush, or in the neutral zone, they want him out.
“Be six-foot-five, not five-foot-10,” as one coach (not in Carolina) explained. It also seems they are asking him not to set or go down as early as he used to. “I would assume that’s because they are worried shooters can pick that apart,” the above coach said.

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