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Originally Posted by GioforPM
In the whole first period this game the Flames were transitioning fast, or at least trying to. The D to D passes that people have complained about weren't there, unless they were accommodating a line change. That tells me it's not a thing that Ward is coaching, unless he made a conscious decision to switch attacks in the second period. It tells me he told them to move the puck quickly, and they did for a while until they backslid. Now, I suppose it's also his job to keep them on task, but I think they aren't giving him respect because he's an interim coach.
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I would agree, there was a noticeable difference in the transition in the first, where they took the play to the Sharks, and that was not sustained
I have noted it is one particularly frustrating example of how they play, and I think he does need to keep them on task and coach the slow transitions out of them
I liked that Hartley had the rule that the D were not to reverse the puck, preference to move quickly to a forward rather than the the D. It’s a simple rule that removes many instances of the problem