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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
So you are attributing Vegas' success primarily to coaching?
This seems like an over simplistic explanation
An easy team to point to as part of the narrative, but light on tangible analysis.
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I do, mostly because we have evidence of most of those individual players before they came to Vegas. Many of them are having career seasons.
I also know the methods of Gallant pretty well. He gets the team to understand the basics of where to be and how to work as a unit, but he also encourages players to use their unique skill sets as the situations present themselves.
He's not a flawless coach, but he's good at getting the most out of a roster. See 2 years ago with a Panthers team that had over 100 points, yet most of the key players in other situations after that team have not fared as well (Kulikov, Gudbranson, Montoya, Pirri, Quinton Howden; Jokinen and Jagr to a lesser extent because they just got old)
I also know that under Hartley's extremely flawed system, this team overperformed, despite shakey goaltending, and despite getting routinely out chanced/out shot. This team is the exact opposite: Underperforming despite getting solid goaltending, and routinely out chancing the opposition.
There needs to be a balance between motivation and systems. Glen doesn't seem to have the motivation part figured out, despite being a player's coach...the same thing that Gallant technically is.