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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
It doesn't say that, so no worries.
I was addressing the people who claim that Huska won't allow offensive creativity, and that he demands everyone play dump and chase, then trap. He doesn't. And the quote backs that up, so yeah, it provides what I suggested it provides.
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It provides nothing. Do you actually expect an NHL coach's philosophy to be "I don't care about offense. I just want you to be reliable defensively and we don't care about scoring goals"? Every defense-first coach's philosophy is the same as Huska's. Worry about perfection in your own end first and then we'll talk about offense.
If that's Huska's philosophy, then in reality Parekh is very likely going to be a bust. Basically if he pans out to be reliable defensively, then the offense will eventually play and the Flames have Quinn Hughes 2.0 on their hands. But if he doesn't end up being uber reliable defensively, he will be limited offensively by Huska and then you have nothing. Developing a unicorn like Parekh this way takes away door #3 which is where you end up with an Evan Bouchard - a guy that makes the big mistakes occasionally but dominates offensively. Which was the most likely result for Parekh when he was drafted. And as much as Flames fans make fun of the mistakes, every NHL team would be lucky to have Bouchard on their team (just not at that contract).