Thanks for the great feedback guys, and yes I've often entertained the thought of being a youth coach later in life, peewee maybe. Read the Screech Owls series too many times.
The only other thing I noticed from video (I'll spoiler from now on for easier quoting):
The Jackets are really bad at dealing with speed through the neutral zone and on the transition.
Spoiler!
For some reason the Blue Jackets just don’t handle this very well. They seem confounded often when speedy opposing forwards are blasting through the neutral zone at full stride. Most of the time they just back all the way up and forfeit the blueline entirely, leading to easy zone entries. Fortunately for them, Bobrovsky is playing godlike and stops most of the high danger chances off the rush.
They only have two decent skating defencemen in Ryan Murray and Jack Johnson, so perhaps that has a lot to do with it. Carlsson in particular seems to be victimized a lot, he moves like he’s strapped speed-skates on. Nutivaara doesn’t follow transitions well either. Even though Murray is a decent skater, look at the ridiculous gap that Gallagher’s speed affords him.
In this play, Vesey actually capitalizes on a Jackets forward change - instead of dishing it off, he builds up speed, charges with the puck from all the way back at his goal line and carries it end-to-end for a shot on Bobrovsky. Again, Carlsson is victimized.
Often the defencemen get no help in the neutral zone because the forwards pressure early at the opposing blueline to hold the zone (as Milano and Schroeder successfully did here). But if the Flames can beat that forecheck, then they should be able to make zone entries with ease using their fast skaters.
