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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Can someone articulate what Treliving's vision has been for the team?
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I think it can start to pieced together with this interview:
He focuses on the top 4 D. It all starts with your end, being able to breakout so he wants to build a defensive corps that can play the modern game (with caveats to other areas)
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Q:You’ve been ultra aggressive in building your defence. It was already strong (Mark Girodano, TJ Brodie and Dougie Hamilton), but you traded a first and two seconds for Hamonic. Why the overkill?
A: I think your team is built on your top-four D. To me, that is the heartbeat of your team. They stabilize everything. They are the ones who are either going to get the puck moving or not. They’re the ones who create your transition or not. They need to be able to get out of trouble because fewer bad things happen when you’re not around your own net.
You want to go as deep as you can beyond four, but the foundation of good teams is their top four defence. If you don’t have that four, it’s like building a house on shaky ground.
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I interpret this as he wants players that can think fast and play fast and he loves size and strength.
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Q:What was that certain style you wanted them to play?
A: Size and strength is still very important. I wish they were all six-foot-five. But the tempo at which the game is being played, that’s almost paramount.
It’s also being able to think fast enough. The rink is open now and you can go from the defensive zone to the offensive zone immediately. The game has been stretched and things move a whole lot quicker. Speed of play and speed of thinking the game is paramount. You need players who can fit into that. Size and strength are still important, but you can’t sacrifice the tempo of your team.
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Build four lines that can score? I like that.
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Q: You have some elite players at the top of your lineup, but your scoring is four lines deep. Is it considered an expectation, not a bonus, that your bottom six contribute offensively?
We relied here on too few to do too much for too long. If 13 (Johnny Gaudreau) and 23 (Sean Monahan) were scoring, then more often than not we had a chance to win. But if they didn’t, then more often than not we finished second. We needed more contributors.
Your top guys are going to be your top guys and that’s why they get paid what they get paid, but scoring has to be part of everybody’s job description. To what extent? You have to be realistic, but nobody can be let off the hook now where all they do is check or all they do is kill penalties. In today’s game you need people who score throughout the lineup.
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Now, I'm sure people with whine that he hasn't done any of his stated goals but I'd disagree. It's not all going to be perfect. You put in the work, make the assessments and then make your moves. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't - that's what you get with predicting human nature/performance.
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