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Originally Posted by kukkudo
I still think Peters is the guy they want. Once he wraps up the Carolina stuff the Flames will scoop him up.
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To echo what C4L said, it seems we are looking for coaches that will coach the 5-man attack possession style, that has its origin in Soviet hockey and was used so successfully by Detroit. That's all well and good when you have Larionov, Krutov, Makarov, Fetisov, Fedorov, Yzerman, Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Lidstom, etc, etc, etc. It's another thing to apply it here or Carolina, where the talent deposits are not quite so rich. Sure, you can teach lesser players to slow down the game and hold onto the puck, but it's hard for them to actually score in that system, which is sort of the point of this activity. Can we win with this system. Sure, we just need to go back 15 years and bring back 2002 Datsyuk and Lidstrom. Or we can see if Pittsburgh is willing to move Crosby and Malkin for Brouwer and Brodie. The point I am trying to make is that you need to adapt your style/system to the players you have...