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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

WellPlayed said:
It's a legit way to create a prime scoring chance from nothing. Same with the Michigan goal, and same with when guys started going between the legs so they could change the angle and still get a forehand shot off. In addition to being awesome to watch, these moves give the best opportunity to score in certain situations. Scoring goals is pretty essential to winning hockey games. WTF is wrong with Torts.
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Whats wrong with Torts is that he has a fundamentally broken view of the game that has been birthed and nurtured by the fact that a clown show league office has refused for generations to call its rule book or properly assess discipline on intent to injure plays.

Basically, he has the same mindset as the cavemen that have been running the league and holding it back.
 
5 players collapsed around the net, and all of them are puck watching.

A little pressure on the puck carrier and he doesn't have the time to cradle and flip the puck.
 
BG said:
5 players collapsed around the net, and all of them are puck watching.

A little pressure on the puck carrier and he doesn't have the time to cradle and flip the puck.
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But that's the strategy right. If you park a guy on each post and park the bus with the rest, a player behind the net can't hurt you so there's no reason to chase. He has to dish off to the boards/point, or try to step out and force a low percentage pass through five sets of sticks and skates into the slot. That's why this flip pass is so beautiful. It breaks up this boring ass park the bus coaching strategy. These young skill guys have just figured out how to beat it. Now if defenders have to protect for the flip it opens up other options. If nothing else it will create chaos in the slot every time. It's beautiful.
 
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It makes sense that it was an unwritten rule because otherwise I never really understood why they didn't do it all the time. It's not that hard.

And it doesn't have to be a mid-air clean bat-in to make sense - so many times just flipping over in front, even blindly, would be a smart play.
 
WellPlayed said:
But that's the strategy right. If you park a guy on each post and park the bus with the rest, a player behind the net can't hurt you so there's no reason to chase. He has to dish off to the boards/point, or try to step out and force a low percentage pass through five sets of sticks and skates into the slot. That's why this flip pass is so beautiful. It breaks up this boring ass park the bus coaching strategy. These young skill guys have just figured out how to beat it. Now if defenders have to protect for the flip it opens up other options. If nothing else it will create chaos in the slot every time. It's beautiful.
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This is a pretty good explanation of why John Tortorella, the king of boring ass coaching strategies, is so annoyed by this play.
 
LeafGm said:
This is a pretty good explanation of why John Tortorella, the king of boring ass coaching strategies, is so annoyed by this play.
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It takes a big fat shit on how he wants teams to play against his preferred coaching style. When you do unconventional shit like that against him that blows up his strategies, he's going to get pissy.
 
zeke said:
The funny thing about Torts is that he won his cup thanks to turning that bolts team into a beautiful attacking offensive team.
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and his best Rangers team couldn't get him back to the finals because it was mediocre offensively...lost against a pretty meh Jersey team.
 
New conspiracy theory:

The Chinese government created and released the Omicron variant so that their Olympic hockey team wouldn’t get humiliated by NHLers.
 
There’s no way the olympics are happening.

And of course covid becomes a thing as soon as the leafs are first overall contenders.
 
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