[DeluxeMoustache]

Yeah there are a lot of things that are coached

I know everyone complains about the drop pass. Thing is, the drop pass, in and of itself, works... that is, when the first puck carrier pushes back the opponent and then the trailer can take a look at what’s open, and attack through the weak area. Problem is that the decision is made by Rasmus at his own blue line that he is going to drop, and it plays out like this. Rasmus skates past their F1, who doesn’t bite, Rasmus looks way back to find Gaudreau by Rittich, and the other team watches amusedly as this ridiculously long drop pass happens, and they do not bite on anything and create space. Gaudreau skates in to a defensive structure that was not impacted by the drop pass and loses it.

The drop pass is clearly coached but apparently how it works isn’t understood

And that Twitter video that Justin Bourne posted and pointed out Bennett being easy on Norris? The issue with that was how astonishingly passive the Flames are in the d zone. Absolutely no pressure to force Ottawa to do anything, much less make a mistake. And it does not lend itself to any kind of a transition that results in an odd man situation unless a winger blows the zone and they go for a stretch pass.

Which sometimes happens. Then when the stretch pass doesn’t come, Tkachuk parks himself on the far blue line and waits. Then somebody finally passes to him, and he either chips it in because he is standing still and the opponents win the race to the puck (because he chips it in his own corner, making it a race even less likely to be won by his linemates), or if he keeps it, two guys converge on him and take it away

Just a couple of examples of things you see fairly often

It is brutal to watch