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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
I actually like the quote too. I just find it interesting how much we like hearing that. This team, when they were more goal scoring talented (had Johnny, Tkachuk and semi healthy Mony) were god awful when they were playing more offensively minded..
Results got immediately better when they were forced to play the tighter checking games. It will be interesting to see how this goes.
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I don't think he means you get rid of the structure, just that you still need talent to play in a structure and be able to shine a bit.
There was a time when you could have less talent but play so defensively structured that you would win.
That's less the case now. You need to be able to balance skill and offensive within that offensive structure.