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Originally Posted by shogged
Is it really a "good system" if it takes 40 games to learn every year?
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Anyone whole-heartedly supporting the current head coach really should be able to answer this.
The reason 'psyching yourself out' and 'overthinking the play' and 'being inside your own head' and 'gripping your stick too tight' are things said in elite sports is because doing these things negatively impacts both confidence and performance.
If you employ a system apparently so counter-intuitive that an entire squad of NHL level players (many of whom do not lack in hockey IQ) have to regularly re-learn how to make it work then it belongs in an artificial intelligence competition between supercomputers and not in a competition that is routinely won on human emotion and instinct.
As with many other disciplines something that is brilliant hockey theory may be disastrous hockey practice.
There is absolutely such a thing as outsmarting yourself. And Glen is known as a super-smart coaching theorist.
And the job is not getting done on the ice.