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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Wasn't the team 32nd in royal road attempts this season?
The fact that they are told to play such hard nosed north-south hockey tells me that coaching is having an impact on these numbers and it's kind of hiding how poor of a team they really are.
Cross ice passes just weren't part of the team's strategy this year.
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Whenever a coach gets blames for something I always suggest asking yourself if it's likely he'd actually coach that way?
Can we think of any reason why Sutter would say "don't do any across the slot passes this year! None!" when his team scored a lot of goals doing exactly that the season before?
I can't see it.
Just like I couldn't see Bill Peters telling his team to back in on his goaltenders against the Avalanche in the playoffs.
Why?
I think to some degree the team doesn't have the mix that creates the chances that result in cross slot passing.