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Originally Posted by Nelson
-Peters hints starting goaltending will be Smith and the backup position will be a fight between Rittich and Gillies
-Responsibilities for Ward and Huska: forwards and PP and defencemen and PK respectively (but everyone will have input on everything)
--expectations for PP:
----wants to be creative and unpredictable
----as a group will break down film from 2018 playoff teams to get new ideas for PPs
----it sounds like he is open to doing 4F-1D or 3F-2D
----pointing to wanting to change up the drop back PP entry (not necessarily get rid of it, but vary it)
-Geoff Ward will make more than Ryan Huska (associate makes more than the assistant)
-want to improve team speed and be a quick, aggressive team
-move the puck fast, play north and south
-Huska had opportunities from other teams (Peters wanted to hire away Huska to Carolina when he was there)
-reads The Athletic, the article about NJ and defensive zone faceoffs
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This is all excellent new IMO.
That PP backpass to Johnny got stale in about game 3, the fact they kept it all 82 was the most bizarre coaching strategy ive ever seen. So predictable. Need variation.
The quick, aggressive, speed game is exactly what the Pittsburgh, LVK, etc. teams are doing. Not surprising Peters wants to adopt a similar approach, after seeing the success.
Flames new brass continues a good trend of saying the right things.