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Originally Posted by Blaster86
Oh, I never said it was a good system, but it is a system the Canucks play. In the defensive zone they collapse to the middle to deny high-slot and center chances. They try and force all shots from the outside. Markstrom does better the more shots he faces, so they allow opposing teams to take as many shots as they want from the outside, trying their best to make sure they're clean shots with little traffic.
Now is some of that system created because they just don't have the players to make something less risky work? Yep, but that doesn't change the fact that this is the system. They talked about it a lot through the play-offs, so it's not shocking most Flames fans missed it. Didn't have much reason to watch after some early success vs half of the Jets.
I don't disagree. For this system to work, your goalie needs to be your best player. It's why I think it's an awkward, silly system.
Schmidt is going from being the #1/#2 d-man on a team too... the #2 dman on a team. Why would there be more pressure? He was already slotting against top lines and top players. Nothing is going to change for him. What changes is the two guys coming out after him aren't going to be as good as they were in Vegas.
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Nothing will change, except that in Vegas the team was pushing the pace and generating more scoring chances than they were giving up. In Vancouver he will be defending more, whether by design or overall team skill.