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Originally Posted by GranteedEV

Our system isn't too different from Pittsburgh however their D are much more involved in the cycle, their third D pair can pressure and move the puck, and they have better forward speed and transition skill on every single line down to the fourth (and Sullivan is much better at reading the flow of a game instead of being Willie Desjardins 2.0)

Pitt initially looked pretty terrible under Sullivan too, until they cleaned up the loose ends on their roster and added Schultz, Sheary, Rust, Hagelin, and Kuhnhackl to play one singular identity as a team that transitioned early and quickly. We have a system, but our roster composiion has no identity because our management's roster model appear to be a team like the 2012 Arizona Coyotes instead of contenders like the cup winning Blackhawks and Penguins teams or Tampa Bay. We are a teaam whose most skilled players want to attack wih speed but we drag each of them down with rawrsize and rawrtruculence. Even our skill - guys like Versteeg and Monahan, can't play at the tempo needed to play like Pittsburgh. And two of our players who should be best suited to this system - Ferland and Bennett - have had weak individual starts to the season on top of that. And the rest of the players who are well suited to this system - Kulak, Mangiapane, Jankowski, Dube, Freddie Hamilton (as a winger), Kylington are simply not on the roster.

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