I think my thoughts on GG's system and why it sucked was that he didn't actually
a) change things up
b) put his less skilled players in a position to score goals.
When your bottom six struggles with scoring but is playing your system then the system is flawed.
To my eye, and no analytics can prove this one way or the other yet because they don't account for how many defenders are back, speed of zone entry, etc. but what it looked like was the GG system worked for JG, Mony, and other skilled players, but the bottom six was advancing the puck slowly (but as a unit as GG wanted) but there were almost always multiple defenders back behind the puck.
The top teams seemed to create more off the rush than the flames. Boston, Tampa, and Vegas, all were gaining the zone with more regularity of having fewer defenders to get through.
while a Jonny Hockey is skilled enough to score despite numbers, we regularly saw that the bottom six were not.
But the refusal to try different things was what truly killed the GG team
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