That's crap! The players can't do what is requested.

The only way you get to a better possession team is to win puck battles. The players in this lineup can't do that. Coach can only give you the ideas. You have to be able to perform them.
- honesthockey

this post would be valuable in 1985

well... no kidding.
- DoubleDown

Leafs fans subscribe to the shot quality system though.. to most more shots doesnt mean better

the players are committed to what RC tells them.. you can see they all do it.. it just doesnt work well. the solution is to tell the players to do it harder.

I read a great breakdown last week on it... I cant post it here
if the leafs could just get back to being a 48% possession team instead of 41 that would make a big difference
- senstroll

If the Leafs could get it out of their own zone once in a while that make a big difference. No stats to back it up, but the Leafs easily lead the league in failed zone clears. The wingers are a huge part in that. Puck gets up to the blueline and the wingers fail to get it the rest of the way out.

this post would be valuable in 1985
- senstroll

Wait a minute. Are you saying that the puck magically ends up in your possession? How do you get possession?

Leafs fans subscribe to the shot quality system though.. to most more shots doesnt mean better
- senstroll

Wins/loses. The only stat.

the players are committed to what RC tells them.. you can see they all do it.. it just doesnt work well. the solution is to tell the players to do it harder.

I read a great breakdown last week on it... I cant post it here
if the leafs could just get back to being a 48% possession team instead of 41 that would make a big difference
- senstroll

If it was from one of the competing sites, I know which one you mean.

Basically we have gotten worse under RC and continue to do so, just as the Ducks did, and then recovered after he left....

this post would be valuable in 1985
- senstroll

numbers are useful.. as a tool.. but the game isnt played on paper

the players still have to execute and battle

If it was from one of the competing sites, I know which one you mean.

Basically we have gotten worse under RC and continue to do so, just as the Ducks did, and then recovered after he left....
- lumlums

this

Wins/loses. The only stat.
- honesthockey

The most important stat.

There are other ones which point to why there was a win or loss, and whether the current progress, whatever it is, is sustainable.

this
- RickJames77

AHJAY! How goes it bud?

numbers are useful.. as a tool.. but the game isnt played on paper

the players still have to execute and battle
- Dozzer

If it was from one of the competing sites, I know which one you mean.

Basically we have gotten worse under RC and continue to do so, just as the Ducks did, and then recovered after he left....
- lumlums

the defensive philosophy is a decade out of date

Wait a minute. Are you saying that the puck magically ends up in your possession? How do you get possession?
- honesthockey

I think he means that RC's system is designed to fail.

If the Leafs could get it out of their own zone once in a while that make a big difference. No stats to back it up, but the Leafs easily lead the league in failed zone clears. The wingers are a huge part in that. Puck gets up to the blueline and the wingers fail to get it the rest of the way out.
- burn

the fowards drop back very low.. there is not much of an outlet pass. RC relies on chip/dump and chase. Teams have figured out ways to stop it.

Cool blog...

The most important stat.

There are other ones which point to why there was a win or loss, and whether the current progress, whatever it is, is sustainable.
- lumlums

So in watching a game you can't tell who's had the territorial play? I mean honestly you don't need statistics to tell you this.

AHJAY! How goes it bud?
- lumlums

Sitting in general ethics

how about you?

numbers are useful.. as a tool.. but the game isnt played on paper

the players still have to execute and battle
- Dozzer

yes I get it.
currently the leafs are using the 100% eye/gut model ... and failing miserably

I think he means that RC's system is designed to fail.
- Pecafan Fan

Not with execution. Players drop low as a support mechanism. Out man the opponent. Problem is no one wins the puck.

Wait a minute. Are you saying that the puck magically ends up in your possession? How do you get possession?
- honesthockey

in Montreal we just pay the refs.

in Montreal we just pay the refs.
- DoubleDown

in Montreal we just pay the refs.
- DoubleDown

Wait a minute. Are you saying that the puck magically ends up in your possession? How do you get possession?
- honesthockey

i am talking about possession based on shot attempts.

Not with execution. Players drop low as a support mechanism. Out man the opponent. Problem is no one wins the puck.
- honesthockey

So you're saying, the system fails?

Sitting in general ethics

how about you?
- RickJames77

Barf.


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