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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
How do you get creative when the opposition is on top of you the second you touch the puck? How can it possibly be more on the coach when the player has only has split seconds to react and make a play before he’s either hit or turns the puck over from pressure? These players don’t have time to think “what would the coach want me to do right now?” There aren’t many ways to be crazy here, they generally just have a small window of time to read and quickly react most of the time and I’m pretty sure an NHL coach like Ward, who has put decades into the game and who’s paid to only watch and think about hockey all day and everyday as his job, would probably know more then any of us armchair noobs about how to breakout of the zone.
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Dude, that’s the whole thing we have been talking about
As the player who gets the puck, you need to know where your teammates are expected to be
You hear commentators talking about play without the puck? That means something
If you are surprised by getting the puck and need to figure out where your buddies are, you should be in a beer league
Coaches actually do, you know, stuff.