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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
He's not upset they aren't executing his system. He's upset that they aren't executing the most basic aspect in hockey.............compete.
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And yet he rolls all four lines and his healthy scratch decisions are arbitrary and shows favouritism to certain veterans no matter how poorly they compete. These are not tactics to get your players to compete.
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Skate hard to make plays. Hit someone. Take a hit to make a play. Battle for loose pucks. Skate hard off the ice instead of coasting.
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All valid - but you're never going to have all 18 skaters competing like that. So you need to manage the game and pay attention to who's going on a given night.
There are people doing that lately. Guys like Mangiapane and Bennett. And what's their reward for it? Watching guys like Lucic, Gaudreau, and Monahan look listless?
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I mean, these are all just so simple. This is stuff hockey players learn at a very young age. He's not asking his guys to execute some tough new system that is hard to implement.
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He's asking players to play an unsuccessful style of dump and chase hockey. This style tends to kill players' motivations because they rightfully do not believe it is a path to success.