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Originally Posted by Bingo
Here's my biggest concern with Peters system ...
He plays a tight gap game with everyone playing "up". That works great if your players are a) fast and b) fast mentally because you put so much pressure on the opposition that you are relentless and suffocating.
As a result you'll get the majority of shot attempts, shot and scoring chances ... GOOD
But also as a result is a team that could be flat footed when a mistake happens and you turn the puck over. That happens enough and you're down because you've given up two or three grade A chances and the other team has managed to score. Suddenly you're chasing the game and score effects once again drive your shot attempts way up.
Hope I'm wrong.
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Me too. Theoretically this team has enough players who can skate out of trouble when they do turn the puck over. I was surprised watching last night by how slow the team looked overall, because a big increase in team speed was also something that I saw in the pre-season that looked like the biggest difference from last year. Hopefully opening night jitters, adjustments and whatever the hell happened on the god-awful powerplay are things that the players have gotten out of their systems. They can skate better than they showed through the first 35 mins last night.