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GDT: Game #30, VS Vancouver, Friday, March 19th, 7:00EST

GrandWazoo said:
Isn't that the most the coaching staff can do? We can't make players convert their chances. Or have our goalie make ONE save?
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that was my point; they seem to be doing what was scripted...there's no special practice that can help players bury their breakaway chances

Byron is our best shootout guy...I am honestly not confident with any other player on a breakaway scenario
 
Whatever they tried didn’t work. At one point, Petry, I think, got isolated and trapped with their attempt to keep possession. It was another weird train wreck until they broke out for Anderson’s choke job.

They have comprehensively bombed the 3 on 3. Total failure. Very, very strange for high level professionals.
 
CH1 said:
that was my point; they seem to be doing what was scripted...there's no special practice that can help players bury their breakaway chances

Byron is our best shootout guy...I am honestly not confident with any other player on a breakaway scenario
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They also don't quite seem to know what to do besides circling around, even our chance tonight was on a broken play.
 
lecoqsportif said:
Whatever they tried didn’t work. At one point, Petry, I think, got isolated and trapped with their attempt to keep possession. It was another weird train wreck until they broke out for Anderson’s choke job.

They have comprehensively bombed the 3 on 3. Total failure. Very, very strange for high level professionals.
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Even when/if it ever works, the plan is not pretty
 
GrandWazoo said:
They also don't quite seem to know what to do besides circling around, even our chance tonight was on a broken play.
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I'm curious to see how it evolves; maybe it'll look better after some practice but it has the potential to look ugly even when it works... they are basically circling around until the other team is gassed and looking to make a change...but seems to me the timing has to line up perfectly because ragging the puck around also creates fatigue on our end....
 
Yeah, I like the idea, but not the execution of it, you need to be circling the puck in THEIR zone, not OURS for it to have a chance to succeed. But our passing game isn't that great either so we keep chocking it.
 
GrandWazoo said:
They also don't quite seem to know what to do besides circling around, even our chance tonight was on a broken play.
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Need to keep in mind most players on this team have been programmed to play linear (stay in your lane) hockey during the Therrien & Julien eras - Drouin, KK, Suzuki & Romanov are far more comfortable at making cross ice / lateral passes in what Habs coaches of last 40-years would frown upon as high danger plays.

Dom Dom also has the unfortunate task of trying to reprogram players like Gallagher, Danault etc
 
Alright, let's look at things at a different angle.

Points in the 10 last games for each teams in the division.

16 - Vancouver
13 - Calgary
12 - Edmonton, Montreal
11 - Winnipeg
8 - Toronto, Ottawa
 
Sal_Butera said:
Need to keep in mind most players on this team have been programmed to play linear (stay in your lane) hockey during the Therrien & Julien eras - Drouin, KK, Suzuki & Romanov are far more comfortable at making cross ice / lateral passes in what Habs coaches of last 40-years would frown upon as high danger plays.

Dom Dom also has the unfortunate task of trying to reprogram players like Gallagher, Danault etc
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The whole organization has been programmed in the old school mode of North-South, low risk, grind it out and dump if there is no play. We got the players that fit that mold, and even thought guys like Drouin, Suzuki and KK to play more like that. We have big but slow defensemen. We're build for 5-5 and what we think can work in the playoffs. 3-3 is not what this team is made for.
 
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