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Originally Posted by Bingo
I hope you're right.
It gives some hope that things can be different with the same roster.
But I do wonder if the team lacks the one on one skills to create some of the chances they're lacking.
I'd agree you're not going to fly the zone in a Sutter system, but then I doubt you can in most systems. But I can't see a coach saying they have to shoot instead of creating a more dangerous chance, which we saw last season.
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Just reading the PGT from the Ducks game, and many people are lamenting the play by Kadri where he didn't pass it back to Huberdeau. First, yes, Kadri seems to lack some vision with his passing game, but to my point above, this has been a problem all year - there have been instances EVERY GAME, where there were opportunities to pass that were ignored, in favour of the shot on net or the rim around the boards to the point. And not just one or two per game, but often many times per night.
Is it the players? In the Kadri example, yes, at least some of that is on him. But with the regular occurrences over the coarse of the season, it is hard to say that all of the players have somehow lost their ability to be creative. The more plausible scenario is that they are being mandated to play that way.