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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I agree those aren’t a good group of coaches. But this core isn’t really some elite group that’s only being held back by coaching.
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It's not an elite group, but it's still a pretty good roster that has performed a lot better than what Ward has gotten from them the last two seasons.
Over a three season span this core was getting top 10 results pretty much across the board but was getting poor goaltending and had a low shooting percentage.
Lets look at the 2016-2019 period in the regular season prior to the debacle against Colorado.
Points %: .579 (14th)
Goals For/60: 2.43 (13th)
Goals Against/60: 2.32 (12th)
Goal For %: 51.2% (13th)
xGF%: 51.5% (10th)
Corsi For/60: 59.6 (6th)
Corsi Against/60: 53.6 (4th)
Corsi %: 52.7 (3rd)
High Danger For/60: 10.9 (12th)
High Danger Against/60: 9.9 (9th)
High Danger %: 52.3% (9th)
Shooting Percentage: 7.84% (15th)
Save Percentage: .919 (23rd)
This was a top 10 roster in terms of generating and limiting shots and chances but were just getting terrible goaltending and had a low shooting percentage. And now that problem should be fixed with Markstrom and Rittich being a really good tandem, and the team shooting percentage being a lot higher than it was those three seasons too.
But the problem is in the 2 years since that playoff loss the team changed their systems to be more defensive and "heavier playoff hockey" and it just hasn't worked with this core.
Ward's point percentage is the same as this core the prior three years, so that looks okay. But he's getting top 6 goaltending compared to 23rd ranked goaltending. Meaning this team has fallen off pretty much everywhere else on the ice under him.