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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Roster is a big part. The fastest player on the team is also maybe the overall worst. The best offensive minded forward is one of the slowest skaters.
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The interesting part of that...is in terms of top Speed Huberdeau actually hasn't lost a step...Florida just played a lot quicker.
In 21-22 in Florida his Max Skating speed was 21.99 MPH
He had 0 22MPH+ bursts and only 53 20-22 MPH bursts.
Last year he had 22.42 MPH top speed, 1 22+ MPH bursts, and 42 20-22 MPH bursts.
So some of it is player for sure...but when I look back at that 21-22 Florida roster and the highlights he generated so much off the rush.
He's done none of that here. My hypothesis was because he was slower as a Flame but that's not the case, at least some of it is the system they play for sure.
And they do have some quick players.
Frost max skating speed over the last couple years is 23.39 which is in the 95th percentile.
Pospisil is 24.06 which is in the 99th percentile.
Klapka at 22.59 is in the 90th percentile
Coronato at 22.68 is in the 91st percentile
Guys like Huberdeau, Kadri, Farabee, and Sharangovich aren't burners but they can all get 22MPH+ and are good players in transition or have been in past stops in their career.
The roster could play a lot faster in transition than they do, and could take a little more risk to try to generate odd man rushes than they do for sure. But they'd need to play more aggressive in the neutral and d-zone than the more passive system they play to facilitate that.
Huska want's them to move the puck quickly once they get possession, but I don't think the system itself is trying to win back the puck quickly to actually make that transition easier.