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Originally Posted by Flames0910
It's the exact same complaint we had under GG.
It's like they switched to the uptempo system, had a tonne of regular season success, and then when they got crushed in the playoffs the coaching staff decided uptempo was too risky and would never work, threw out the whole system and went back to safe/slow hockey.
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One thing became clear to me watching them play last night.
In the past they've been able to attack quickly because they won the puck back quickly. What I think some people don't realize from watching the games on TV and not live is that after we've spent 45 seconds defending in our zone you can't actually attack quickly because the forwards are exhausted and they need a complete line change. That's why the D slow it down and go D to D and piddle around. They're killing time for the entire forward line to change. It's quite obvious when you're there live because you see the line changes much more easily as your entire field of vision is the ice. Watching on TV really masks half the stuff going on.
So in this case being better defensively and winning the puck back earlier in the shift or winning the face-off leads to fast attacking options. Spend a whole shift pinned in our zone? We can't fast attack because we have to line change first.
I think some people really underestimate this aspect.