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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
We talk too much about systems.
This isn’t football.
You try to keep the puck to the outside in the defensive zone and funnel it to the middle in the offensive one. You try to slow them down in the neutral zone, and make it difficult to gain the offensive blue line.
That’s it.
The amount of risk/reward play may vary, and who brings the puck up the ice can fluctuate, but it doesn’t take half a year. If it did, mid-season coaching changes wouldn’t frequently work.
“Learning the system” is generally code for the coach not being able to figure out more fundamental issues.
Look no further than the Glen Gulutzan years, when they were still talking about the system in March.
They’re a collection of solid players with few if any elite talents, and not enough speed (especially among their top dogs).
Only one way to fix that.
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Understanding the system is one thing (it isn't rocket surgery), but executing it WELL is another. It des take time to do a full conversion