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Originally Posted by Bingo
All I'd add to that is Peters gap management system. The D play tighter to the forwards which helps in pinning the opposition in their own zone, or forcing them to dump it out which quickly transitions into bringing it back in.
Early in the season this also resulted in a lot of odd man rushes against and high quality scoring chances. That seems to have been alleviated in the last 5 games with better reads, and the forwards playing a more responsible F3 aware game.
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Absolutely. The improvement in gap control is substantial - possibly the biggest improvement in the team over last year.
The weird thing about that is that, when they hired him, one of Gulutzan's primary discussion points was gap control and that he wanted the D to play them tight in all three zones (I was so excited about that). But then in practice, their gap control was BRUTAL in all three zones. Such a let down, and so misleading from his initial comments.
It is so much better under Peters.