moma2s NewAge Hockey System

Heres the whole Pickle,if you can handle it.

When Struds was competeing in his Dance Competitions, what exactly does the winning pair do better than the losing pair when they both make zero technical errors with their dance steps?

Seriously.

What are the things both tangible and intangible that the Pairs teams can manifest ,do,or create within and without the rules that will allow them to win the round if both Pairs nail the technical side of things?

Make a list.

Do the same thing with a Hockey game ,the same type of basic analysis,then make a list.Then execute the list.That should win you a Stanley Cup if you execute your own list and forget about everyone elses lists,trust yourself and then simply make it happen.

Is just hokkey,why make complicated?

The general idea is to break it down into the most simple and basic concepts possible on PAGE ONE with everyone present,and THEN start to layer in the mid-level concepts you intend to add one by one with the men making micr-consensus based decisions on HOW to DEFINE these concepts your toss them "in their group-speak",this way when they all need to remember the same things from the same page they will already be in a GROUP-SPEAK mode ,cerebral muscle-memory will exist and become like a pressure outlet valve connected to their beanbags,when they need to react on instincts they will all know what and when each other will be making things happen.

Page one is tangibly the "base system" or what Dallas would consider his entire system or sphere of influence.Dallas is in his own world,which is fine I had a brother-in-law who was a Jets fans during the Oilers dynasty reign and he reminded me of Dallas a lot,he never did surrender,he stood and took the shots and somehow kept his spirits up telling himself that he was doing great because he was always in the fight no matter how long that was for or the outcome,the "bar" became etched in at the "comptete" mark.Beaten in really.

The base system is critical because it is what allows you to throw headfakes and give your system the ability to be adapatable.

Players must all understand and be able to execute the base system tightly,but not in games,in practices.In games we want those men stepping OUT of the base system to create terminal offense EVERY TIME a HIGH% opportunity is created.

So right off the bat practice and games must be managed and executed very differently.

In a game a coach never asks his men to play the tight and simple practice style system,he asks them to maintain all of the layers of tactical influence you are asked to implement to that base system.So when an opponent is pushing back hard you do not revert to the KISS system,you keep forging ahead and you keep to your primary focus and keep your eyes on the prize.

In a practise the coach should never waste time letting players step out of the tight KISS "base system" execution.They should all be working on the SPEEDS they execute that system at.During games the players instincts will tell them when to greelight their inner offense based on how they read and react to dynamic actions they recognise developing on the ice,they are floating snipers playing a consistant system but really in effect using the system as a "fall-back" position more than a primary driver.You want the opponent constantly and consistantly reading and reacting to YOUR "base system" playaction,BUT your primary offense will NOT come from set plays catalysed out of your "base system" presentation.Your primary offensive thrusts will be catalysed from Intuitive Dynamic Managment tactics which each man will micro-manage as an individual.



The players and the coaches will ALL be on the same page because they will have designed the system they are using and also written the book together as a cumulative group consensus influence.

I want to repeat that backchecking is an OFFENSIVE tactic,NOT a defensive one,anything that happens south of your own blueline wether you posses the puck or not is OFFENSE.This must be abundantly clear to everyone at a core level of understanding.

One CANNOT extend the cerebral sphere of influence of the defense beyond the defensive zone,NEVER.

Once the playaction has gone out of the defensive zone it is all offense from there,even when you are chasing the puck without possesion,your 100% intent is to IMMEDIATLY transition the puck possesions you get into PENETRATING offensive thrusts.

There is no need to re-set anything system-wise when you are getting pucks back when you are on OFFENSE.However IF YOU DUMP THE PUCK BACK INTO YOUR OWN ZONE,then everyone needs to get their arses into a structured defensive positions ASAP.

This system influence is called the Adjusted-Hybrid,it is what you are supposed to be doing consistantly by now.This is essentially what Dallas has been trying to do.His cohesion between his d-zone puck management and exits AND his neutral zone transition to offense was giving him issues.

The recent attention to backchecking ,which by the way was presented to the men the proper way,by being "presented to them" as simply a superior option to try,to be judged by them as to value.Once the men saw the value of the IMMEDIATE transition back to offense being FREE OF SYSTEM STRUCTURES ,they recognised cracks in the system-harness they all have to wear,they discovered a way to 100% adhere to their coaches defensive requests but STILL HAVE CHANCES THROUGH TIGHT SYSTEM WORK AND EXTRA EFFORT on the back checking and puck recovery strategys.These chances are like on-ice rewards,they are moments generated by superior effort and compete that can be absolute game changers when skilled and talented men are putting in a blue collar effort first and using their extra skills second.

The "reward" for playing a tightly executed system and for ALWAYS being on the right side of the puck and opposition to take superior defensive positioning is that when anything south of the defensive zone turns into a puck possesion,it is a free-pass on system accountability,the men can just attack using 100% instincts and whatever set structures fit their offensive group skillsets the best,NO STRICT SYSTEM SET PLAYS AT ALL.Just plays they as a line work best with ,executed on-the-fly every time.


This is when the players must trust the coaches and the coaches must behave properly when they OFFER advice to the forwards.No dominating inputs,but when there is a need to make overall adjustments the coaches must alert the men that there is a need so the men can look for and recognise these dynamic threats,not simply and blindly without full understanding react to orders.There is a place for that type of instant obediance effect but it is a much higher level system than Dallas can handle right now,at this point Dallas himself could use this type of input strategy from an optimal source.

The more of the coaching staffs tangible duties and responsiblitys you can build INTO YOUR SYSTEM the better it is, this is a reduction in the cerebral workloads of everyone and the tangible communication challenges the entire group is consistantly presented with when constant and complicated adjustments are required .

You want the SYSTEM to be allowing the PLAYERS to coach themselves on-the-fly outon the ice.The coach should me making suggestions not demands,and the men should be managing that data as they see fit.If there are disconnects on the ice the MEN AND THE COACHES will all NEED to recognise it 100% before they can effectively neutralise it with a cohesive group effort and focus.Even if the coaches recognise the need to adjust FIRST ,they cannot expect the men to simply make blind adjustments,the men need to get the data as a suggestion and then make their own call when they understand what you have told them,when they see and feel it happening tangibly on the ice,a results based decision making process.The same process Dallas himself needs,he needs a pure Intuitive Dynamic Managment influence in his ear OFFERING data ,not demanding,just assisting in the read and react process.


This is called the Pyramid of Empowerment in the NewAge Hockey System.It is an imporatant core value component of the NHS.

The coaches and the players need to "connect" in a better format than they have been using in the past.They need to create the environment where everyone is reacting the same ways cerebrally,and everyone is feeling a group catalysed sense of urgency and accountability for everything that happens at all times,everyone alerts to danger and reacts in the same precautionary ways consistantly WITHOUT surrendering dynamic control of momentum or playaction.


No one man should EVER be thinking in his head "darn! I cant believe they didnt see that coming!", instead every man should be saying "darn,I should have seen that coming".

If you are seeing things before the rest of your mates,there is what is commonly know as a COMMUNICATION DISCONNECT going on.

Everyone must be put in positions where they can effectively and in a timely manner communicate all of their tactical recognition to the group mind ASAP.

Everyone must be working on one Party-line type of communication system,they must all have the recieve button locked open and they must all feel 100% confident breaking into the radio transmission to add their on-the-fly updates.In effect you need to create this "radio communication" impact,but in an inner cerebral group focused manner.One that reacts AS FAST AS THE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS.


The verbal participaction on the ice was excellent last game,in fact it was a difference maker,keep it up.

Your system focus doesnt have and real holes in it so far,so i am hesitant to mess with it.

Keep it steady.

They are or came out intentionally bringing the puck up at 75% speed,nice job of matching them.

Just keep playing your game,remember that this is a rookie goalie so lets MAKE SURE to get a good volume of shots on him.
Tell Taylor to keep dragging the d-man wide on his side but to cut across the middle so sam can hit him on the d-mans other side with a pass,Hall needs to pull his d-man to the side on his way in and then beat him in a footrace into the middle for a deflection off of Gagners pass.

We need to remember to backcheck with energy,when Hall fell in their zone early in the game Toews went to town with no backchecker on him,they are keeping it at 75% speed perfect for backchecking them and stripping pucks if they sneak past our forcheck.
You can hurry their game up any time you want by simply changing your forecheck to a more high energy direct style that closes off pass lanes quickly and zeros in on the puck,and then making sure you backcheck at just as high a speed as you came into the forecheck at.Extended backchecking pressure means following them even when they open it up,force them all 200ft of the ice and if they keep steaming to your net keep chasing them full bore,they CANNOT go all the way in at high speed,so dont let them utilise any seperation they create,make sure you are right on their tails ALL the way till they get rid of the puck unless they cut some huge angle on you or you get pinned out or fall completely out of the playaction.

Their body language isnt very good,so come out strong and look for short deflections and PUT SOME PRESSURE ON THIS ROOKIE GOALIE and NOT just peripheral pressure,get in closer and shoot on him and work him over with rebounds,make him stretch out and work for it.

Taylor needs to make sure he supports the puck a bit tighter in the o=zone,he can trnsiton the n=zone the same wy and keep pulling his d-man wide,but he needs to cut into a scoring position at least with his stick for deflections,but Sammy WILL hit him with passes if Taylor can get into the middle and keep his head up and stick down.

Short give and goes will work nicely,maybe Hall needs to take that pass just high of the halfwall and look to return it to Sammy backdoor for a redirection off of a heard wrister from Taylor directed to the right backdoor side.

And Sammy CAN take the shot to the low far post and generate a nice directed rebound to Hall coming in back-door,Sammy doesnt need to worry about exactly where he takes that shot from it will always go to the back door man,he can take it above,beside,below or anywhere around the right faceoff circlwe,EVEN 2 feet over the blueline at attcck speed,or he can pull up 3 feet in and pop off a hard accurate shot,the key is just hitting the low post spot with a heavy ACCURATE low shot.

Taylor will need to make more of a tricky upspeed o-zone entry and cleanly beat his d-man or do a poke deflection to the backdoor.If Taylor just mixes his speeds up and Sam remembers he can shoot from anywhere anytime to the loe post and matches Halls lead with his timing on the shot they will make this play work repeatedly.Hall can consistantly beat his defender to the back door and Sam is crafty enough to always find a way to get the low post shot off.Just WATCH for them to try to exploit you up the middle,keep your own 3rd man high middle with blueline position on their middle defender so he cant spring himself up the middle without you hitting him square in the chest,no puck chasing on middle coverage just a center body mass hit to stop the man from advancing letting the d-men collapse to get the puck.



At any rate this IS A ROOKIE goalie so light him up,just shoot for the AHL weak spots he is still green as grass.

Remember to try banking shots in off of his teammates,and tell Sammy to pick the top right corner on every 3rd o-zone entry if he and Hall are working the low post back door play with solid middle support.

Dont be in a rush to change anything though,just be aware they will come out executing faster this period,look for it.They were rope-a-doping it in the 1st trying to make a few errors as possible taking it nice and easy.

Who cares what they do,they are tired so lets run them hard and fast the rest of the night.

Your system is looking superior,just keep pushing them south all the time stay tight in their faces and keep trying to break it back past them high on the blueline and everywhere else.

They are shooting fast release across the board,it isnt fluke they are all doing it,so keep your sticks down and heavy and dont let them get those shots off from the mid zone or anywhere,BE AWARE of the puck and take away their shots at all times.

We need to skate it in to the net off the halfboards more and shoot from intight,or drive it low and into feet as everyone collapses. We arent connecting on any passes from behind the net when we recover in their zone so we may as well drive it right to the net way earlier.

We need those ozone entrys to result in shots on net every possesion. No point in consistantly working behind the net when there is consistantly no offense coming out of it.Keep driving the puck right at the rookie goalie at high speed.

DO NOT LET THAT VERY BAD PENALTY CALL CHANGE YOUR BACKCHECKING PRESSURE ONE DARN BIT KEEP IT UP HARD THE OFFICIALS KNOW THAT IT IS SHUTTING THEM DOWN AND ARE TRYING TO STOP US.

Now that goal against for them is KARMATIC.we deserved that break.

Send the puck support behind their net in TWOS only 5 FEET apart,sticking together on the puck and workng it to the netfront together.

Stop sending just one man on the puck and trying to pass it out,because they are clearing really well and they are also boxing out our 3rd man.

So simply send in TWO men as a relay tag-team and work it to the netfront that way.

You arent stretching their goalie out at all,you need to bring 3 men in over the blueline laterally strong from here on in if you want to stay in this one.

Nice solid 3 man blueline o-zone transitions.

Our forecheck has been poorly managed all game,and it has allowed them to initiate their system from the 1st d-zone transition,the MAJOR thing we are suppossed to STOP them from doing.

Come on already,pressure them in their zone and generate turnovers you take straight up the middle and skate right in to the net,we have been over all of this before in prior games against these guys,and activate our d-men they ALWAYS have success against these guys when you bring them in hard and fast.

Remember that when you pressure them with the hard forechecks thwy will direct the pucks to the far sides and try to pick it up on the boards in the n-zone,so be ready to pick off those pucks your 2 man high pressure forecheck forces out,if you send one forechecker to the puck and another at equally high speed to the pass option you will really jam them up,and force the pressure releif puck movement into the n-zone at the pinchpoint,get position in the n-zone and be ready to jump into the playaction when those pucks squirt into the n-zone .

And if they try skating past our forcheck and holding on to the puck,come out of the n-zone at high speed and intercept them ASAP ,in their zone if possible,our forecheck WILL slow them and stop them consistantly but just rmember that if their d-men try to skate out of the forecheck pressure that takes away the puck and the 1st pass option at the same time.

Target them in their own zone and take away the 1st exit transition,by using a 2 man forecheck with one man charging the puck full speed and the other going to the 1st pass option,then pick up their primary pressure relief puck outlets and drive them up the middle right at them.
Their weak spot is up the middle for 200 feet.At ANY time if you can get an angle on a 175 footrace with them up the middle push the puck up and make them race you for it.

We need to also make sure we work in PAIRS 5 feet apart behind their net when we go for the pucks and just work it to the net front together the hard way.

We need to remember to SKATE at least 20 ft with the puck when we gain possesion even when we are behind the net,it is better to come screaming out wide and fast from the corner than it is to make a useless pass to the netfront where no one is there to support the effort,skate the puck and give your support time to get where you need them,dont just dig the puck out and throw it to the usual spots because they are covering the front nd middle tightly.

Work together in PAIRS with short relays and bring it to the netfront together.

Make sure you hit their blueline laterally strong,and try to finish the playactions from the middle with deflections.

Hurry up your shots with one-time redirection scoop-shots,no big windups,and target him with shots from the middle,catch him in transitions,from the middle 3-5 feet over the blueline from the middle.Catch him dropping early with high shots under the bar or at his elbows from the middle mid-zone.

And we need to get 3 men deeper working together deep in their zone,they are letting us get to pucks deep in their zone and then covering the passes on us and trying to beat us one on one,so we need to skate it to the net in PAIRS with support laterally.

Well done,now rinse and repeat,what you can do onece you can do twice and three times.Just create the same dynamic again ASAP.

Why arent our men charging at the net the way Toews is and other hawks are doing?I suggested this in the 1st period.


Do what they are doing,drive it to the net,thats how hall got his goal and we need another like it.

Try to catch them off guard with a Yakupov onetimer from the far side backdoor.

Why is there no aggressive pressure high on our blueline,when we know we need to do that to them.

We should be beating this team regularly,every time I post during a live game the tactical dynamics are the same,i am consistantly telling the coaches the same things,so obviously no one is keeping track of game logs and creting a handbook for each opponent.

Use a high pressure forecheck with 2 men to force them to hurry their puck movement into those pinchpoints just inside the n-zone on both boards wide.Target those pressure outlet pucks and drive them up the middle back at them. Cover them on the high blueline in your d-one because that is where they work their systems offense from,Remember that their d-men cheat on BOTH sides of the n-zone so target them with stretch passes when they do that.

These same adjustments are posted on prior game day threads against the Hawks.

They use and NHS modified Adjusted-Hybrid, we use an Adjusted-Hybrid.

You can stop both of these systems the same ways.

They are possesion/transition systems.

Early in this game it was obvious they were keeping the game speed at 75% intentionally,and we failed to push the pace on the when they were tentative and fragile which they were.

They are not a hard team to defeat if you dont have such a joke of a forecheck and n-zone game for 2 1/2 periods of the bleeding game.That was a very very sub-par job of forechecking and utilising the n-zone optimally.

This was obviously both a coach and a player issue,even the body language was poor.

The forechecking we saw at the end of the game was what we should have seen at the beginning of the game.We should have used our speed and skill to run them down and rip them up,instead we were tentative and let them dictate the pace of the game and the momentum of the game,which they were actively doing for the most part.

These are the types of teams we should be defeating easily next season,but the coaches need to get their things in order because this game was badly coached,the poor forechecking focus from a tactical perspective was there from the beginning nearly to the end.

The simple tactics of a 2 man defined forecheck with high speed paralell pressure on the puck and the 1st pass option with an agressive n-zone support and high blueline presssure funnelled to the middle on them on both sides of the rink and their system is compromised,and we should win the games every time.

Also note in your records that there is no point in chasing pucks behind the net and trying to pass it to the front conventionally when they are baiting you into being pinned on the boards and out of the play even if you may have possesion and then simply covering the middle and front.You need to work in pairs 5 feet apart and drive pucks to the net using short relays.

The obvious difference tonight aside from system tactics was that they had individuals take extended runs 200 feet and to the net,they had men who broke system continuity and went for the end to ender and that was the difference maker,they were willing to take greater risks on extended puck possesion drives to allow them to stretch our defense out and force not just one but two defensive transitions or handoffs of puck coverage,then they were simply exploiting those transition points and taking it straight to the net up the middle,EXACTLY what I was telling you to do to them.

To me these types of games are old news,the same old coaching deficiencies,poor tactics and poor recognition of that fact.

As I said this Hawks team should be soundly beaten every time we play them because their system is so simple to defeat.But this game was mismanaged from the 1st minute on . For your information,if you wait so long to utiise my data dont expect it to have the impact it optimally carries,you guys are really slow these days on the uptake and it is killing you.

Dallas when you watch the tapes,just look at your forechecking from the 2st period on,it tells the entire story,then note the inconsistant high defensive zone blueline coverage and mismanaged tactics at that critical area.Pay attention to the ways they cheat both sides of the n-zone.This is why you need agressive pressure on the high on the bluelines on both sides of the rink.
Watch how they came out on you with a very slow and controlled 75% speed momentum,and how they worked the momentum game in their favor on you for most of the game.They took our raw speed out of the game early and kept it out and optimised thier lesser overall speed by engaging it in an uptempo tactic on extended puck carries through multiple zones and directly at the net.

Note how your backcheckers couldnt do their jobs because they werent getting in on the forecheck fast and hard enough to choke the puck in and get behind the d-man with the puck who was forced to skate it out because of the speed of the forecheck.You needed a 2 men forecheck with one man on the puck and another on the 1st pass option at HIGH speeds,this would have allowed to to hurry up the entire pace of the game and to also get TWO men in optimal positions to use their forechecking speed and momentum to create a gamechanging dual backchecking threat allowing for a high number of takebacks in the n-zone.And a lightening fast transition back to offense out of those takebacks,as you saw they were also holding and skating the puck after each pass reception,establishing control.

Overall a poorly played game across the board,everyone was flat from the coaches to the players,I guess the group is hitting the wall together.

Just poor pre-game tactical preparation,the Hawks havent changed their system one bit since the beginning of last season.

Its the day after.

All you needed to do was attack their d-zone laterally strong E/W and you would have given the all kinds of problems.

That was the main offensive adjustement you didnt make in time.

The forecheck needed to be adjusted to a 2 man high pressure focus taking away the puck carry and primary pass,funnelling them wherever you wanted them as they approached the n=zone.And backchecking hard to not only funnel them but also herd them at higher speeds than they wanted to use.The battleground was the n-zone had you used that approach.

You needed to initiate pressure high on your blueline EVERY time they had possesion and consistantly make contact at 100% committed high speed and knock them back out of the zone,trying to force pucks out as well.

The properly initiated and supported backchecking would have neutralised the long one man rushes that ended up at the net ,especially Toews,and the high pressure blueline coverge would have neutralised the long shots that ended up being goals.

This tactical data IS NOT NEW,it is the same as it has been for well over a year now.

There is absolutely no reason that this data should not have been implemented into the pre-game plan and been used to dismantle the Hawks.

The communication between here and the bench was wayy to slow and my data wasnt given an adequate level of respect and trust,which it has earned.

You actually had the Hawks number last night,you just didnt know how to make the right adjustments at the right times.

They shut down your offense by funneling you to the wing and preventing you from using a strong lateral blueline attact and they were allowed to make easy d-zone exit transitons all night long,until you challenged them late in the 3rd and shut them down.Had you done that in the 1st,you would have walked on them.


Dallas,as I said to your predecessors, you have your hands full keeping the system focus on task,the read and react advantage that 25 yrs of NHL experience and acumen provide is not even 50% of what I provide in terms of speed and accuracy.

If you simply ran your system but had an eye on my adjustments and implemented them you would have an unbeatable advantage over your opponents.

But you cant wait,not at all,if I am posting live you need to act in a timely manner.Adjustments have expiry dates you know.

If you had a proper pre-game Tactical Dynamic Template prepared for your own reference you would be ten steps ahead of where you are right now.


You could have pulled any game day thread of a game against the Hawks in nearly two years and the tactical adjustments would be very much the same.Your explanations of why YOU havent acted on this accurate data is yours alone.


Dont get all paniced now, you simply failed to read and react to the hawks system,which is really very simple after all,right?

Dont make any knee-jerk changes to anything drastic,remember that what you WANT is a system that you can adjust,its that simple,and you have had that for quite a few games now,so dont screw with it.Screw with your own adjustments during games and your pre-game tactical planning if there even is any.

Eakins,just re-read my posts as you are watching the game again,syncronise the game and the times I posted,and then think about things,I showed you the very basic and easy ways to stop one of the best teams in the NHL,ways that are ironclad,ways even they cannot stop if they know it is coming unless they surrender system continuity and game momentum.

You were only a few small details,or , "tidbits" off base from the bench last night,there was nothing wrong with the efforts from the men and your functioning of your system through them,you just didnt know what to do and when to do it.No harm,no foul.Same problems your predecessors all had.Sooner or later you will see it wasnt their faults,you cannot out read and react the NHS,ever,and if you waste time trying to replicate its impacts to prove that statement wrong,well it is your dime after all.

I think I generally estimated the read and react advantage to be around either 26 or 46 seconds,off the cuff.That means that whatever you change or adjust playing against me I SEE WITHING 26-46 SECONDS.You dont have much free time on my watch.This is the crux of what I have been trying to bang you over the beanbag with,you simply ARENT ever going to match up to my read and reacts,even if you utilise all of the NHS data I have ever posted,you will not suddenly develop high level Intuition.You will function at a higher than normal level of Intuition but just like with the systems modified with NHS concepts,everything is vulnerable to a higher level of Intuition,and the full and complete NHS and its Intuitive Dynamic Managment program are catalysed from 100% Intuition.A coach using the NHS would do to you and the Hawks and Blues ect ect on the ice what I do to the coaches on the bench,OUT-READ AND REACT THEM.



Dallas there was NEVER a Door #3,no fence to sit on,just 100% in or 100% out.

If you cant admit amazement that a simple fan could be putting together this material then you must be a very grounded individual.

From me to Mess to you man,that fast.Thats how it needs to be.Then you will immeditly begin to dominate games against everyone in the NHL.
Things are exactly the same dynamiclly as they were 4 years ago,nothing on your end has changed and nothing on the NHSs end has changed.You need the NHS it doesnt need you.You lose more and more games without a formal relationship and I lose nothing.

As a side-note,the method of disarming the Hawks I gave you is exactly how the Blues will do it this year come playoffs.Bet on it.You are welcome Magnus your ring awaits,its a strange world isnt it?

I just finished reading more Silent Sam Gagner trade rumors.Mmmm.

This IS the single biggest retarded idea I have seen emanate from the "Pound Table" as in pounding sand up their own arses.

If size were what we needed then the losing would have stopped many years ago.

Just because a system is being executed adequately does not mean a team will win using it,it simply means that the Head Coach has done 1/2 of his job right.The other half is the duel with the opponent coaches system to system,making the right read and reacts tacticlly and managerially optimally is the 2nd 1/2 of that job.


The optimal system for this group is now being somewhat utilised,and it has been producing acceptable results.But will they stick with it long enough to allow the wet behind the ears head coach to learn how to use it.

You lost your 1/1a centerman at the beginning of the season.

Your roster became a juggeling act,and the act started in your soft spot, at center.

Your defensive schtick didnt stick with the men and didnt fit into NHL caliber systems it took you a long time to recover from the setback and to organise a decent recovery.

As losses piled up and the bottom fell out of the season you ever so slowly began tightening up on the defensive focus spending more and more and MORE time and energyon trying to find the way out of the crapper by playing tighter and tighter defense.All you did was choke out the players fight or flight response and render them unable to defend themselves optimally or adequately,this was a derelict coaching move.

You can not over-rule the fight or flight instincts in men,and they are directly connected to the concepts of Offense and defense.One usually fits with one.

This is basic coaching stuff that I learned as an amature coach in high school,I coached multiple teams ,up to three,and also competed for my own seperate teams,maybe I learned at an accellerated rate because I was so lucky to have such a high volume of work.


Bringing in a Rookie defensive coach was a genius move by the Oil-luminatti.

The truth is that a defensive minded man K-Lowe was brought in many years ago to stabilise the team,his acumen was what the ownership thought the team needed to get things balanced and they were absolutely wrong.bringing a man like K-Lowe with a defensive mentality through and through was a LONG TERM project,like a decade long.

The entire organisation from top to bottom inside out was the shell structure of an offensive powerhouse NHL team,and it had taken a very long time and a great deal of very hard and committed work to make it what it was at that time.

Deciding to go against the grain of that pre-existing and optimal super- structure and take the entire team and organisation into a defensively catalysed dark period was regressive,derelict,and in ANY other NHL city the team would have been gone by now,only in boomtown Olde Money Edmonton would the team survive so many years of sub-par losing results,no other city could finance such a massive dive into the crapper and not cough up this hairball of a managment group.Just one with money to burn,and we all thought the harder you worked the tighter your guarded those nickels and dimes huh?

Listen,wether Lowe was the right man for the job or not isnt the crux of this causality,the crux is that OWNERSHIP it the time thought that a defensive quotient stronger than normal was needed to balance out what was left of the Gretzky era organisational super-structure,ownership decided to look at their assets in a short-sighted manner and make a decision to go in a strong defensive direction in the name of survival as an NHL franchise ,based on the recent loss of a tremendous degree of Championship talent ,experience ,and offense it looked to them like we HAD to look to survival via defense long term,so what better man than Kevin Lowe to steer that direction.

Fine now we all understand what a bunch of shortsighted morons prior ownership were,you listening Laforge et al.

We were quite obviuously going to go through the cyclical growth phases the same ways as other pro sports teams do,even though we had a plethora of upper end NHL talent we were essentially fleeced of most of it over the long haul.

We were GOING to be getting relatively high draft picks for quite a few years and obviously because we squandered our asset base for the prior decade those high draft picks would have to become the backbone of the teams re-build.

The re-build was always going to be catalysed by that growth cycle the team was involved in,and by the assets we had on board when the edge of that re-build phase had been reached.


The organisation COULD have hired a 100% offensive man instead of K-Lowe and went in that direction and tried to salvage everything they could from the offensively supporting super-structure that stull existed,instead of eroding that super-structure in favor of defensive minded micr-fall backs,letting things go one bloody foot of ground at a time but consistantly falling backwards.

This is why hiring a defensive coach is such folly,the orgnisation is saturated with defensive thinking to the point of it becoming a toxic environment for everyone.

By hiring a defensive head coach Upper Managment or K-Lowe sends the message to fans that we need more defense that the reason we have been losing games is a lack of defense,WHAT BUNCH OF PSYCHO-BABBLE DOUBLE SPEAK.

The team has a massive hole in the OFFENSIVE MINDSET area and it is terminal,this lacking has slowly choked out a Dynasty Franchise over the last decade and a half.

Bringing in a defensive coach was a smokescreen covering up K-Lowes regimes terminal lack of offensive acumen,and making sure he was a rookie to provide an excusatory out was sheer deviant genius.

You can call it lack of Intuitive Dynamic Managment like I prefer to or you can call it a lack of offensive input,or whatever you want to call it.But the impacts and results of this terminal lack or offensive cerebral resources are as clear as polished crystal.

So really at the end of the day,losing an elite offensive managerial asset like Gagner after he has represented what a TRUE OILER is for his entire career is not acceptable.Sam Gagner is a veteran player at the exact right age and level of leadership development to take this group into the future.

My advice is to trade Ference ASAP unless you have the cojones to strip the C from him ,get this team back on offensive track,the leadership evolution needs to go back to last years template.Sam needs to hold the Captaincy for 2 more years until Nuge and Hall can mature into it,by wining games not by thinking defenisvely and losing games.

If Dallas cannot grasp NHL level offensive tactics and implement them then he must be replaced with a very strong offensive minded coaching influence.

Sam Gagner will do nothing but have success on ANY WC team,especially ones already using NHS modifications.He would be an instant asset on any of these top teams.

Sam Gagner has a LOT of career left in him and I want him to be our next Ryan Smyth,he represents continuity of Oilers spirit.Every team NEEDS that history.

I guess I am saying that Defensive minded K-Lowe has torpedoed the ship,clipboard defensive minded mac-T hired defensive minded Dallas to bobby trap the life rafts and Dallas hired defensive minded Ference to ferret out any rebels left treading water.

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In relation to the interesting online pondering about recent line changes and combos.

NEWSFLASH -- The 1st line will always be spearheaded by Halls speed if it is managed properly.

- The 2nd line will always be spearheaded by Yakupovs evil shot if utilised properly.
-The 3rd line will always be spearheaded by Hemskys speed if it is utilised properly.
- The 4th line will always be spearheaded by large robust at least 205 lbs with room to grow and fast skating men who are all simply auditioning for an NHL power forward job.There should be no tangible drop in offensive focus on the 4th line.No KISS minute killing is acceptable for a possesion/transition club.

If you keep the 4th line filled with ONLY potential upwardly mobile players playing a consistantly focused offensive system the team will evolve in that direction.

In terms of viabilty the 4th line can be for only two things ,as a place to hide and shelter men who are specialists in one area of the game,or as an extension of the intentions of the other 3 lines,as a starting point for the men learning the system ladder their coach is trying to teach everyone.With this format the men best suited for the job with the best ability to do what the coach wants rise to the top automaticlly.The key is to keep all of the men ON the 4th line long enough to allow them to gain enough system acumen to make fair evaluations as to if they CAN climb the roster or not.That 4th line needs to be where we start trying on bigger shoes,and I mean substantially bigger as in we have prospects well over 6'1 and 210 lbs,we have enough quality men to fill the 4th line,this is the type of season where the team can simulate meaningfull regular season games when we are still in the hunt,build in a handicap that is also an audition platform so we can put some valuations on some assets and sort out whos who.

Obviously we dont have a great many huge and tough mature NHL fighters,but thats NOT what we are looking for.Besides when you are a behemouth not exactly everyone wants to take a chance on you when you are a rookie filled with adrenaline pee and vinegar.

Hall-Yakupo-Hemsky-Auditions.Those are the obvious strengths that this club CAN openly telegraph and then slam down opponents yappers.These are the no-brainers,the steady eddy valuations that the coaches SHOULD be centralising EVERYTHING ELSE AROUND.

The support for these three line catalysts is excellent,its just a matter of deciding who is the best fit against which opponents.But these 3 men will ALWAYS BE OUR STRENGTHS.

Eberle,Hopkins,Gagner,Smyth,Perron,Gordon, there are lots of quality pieces available to compliment these 3 men.This is how you need to begin making optimal valuations of the entire roster,off of these strengths,if you wanted to you could bump the 4th line audition idea and simply pick Nuge as another line catalyst and go 100% system full bore offense.
I think however that Nuge and Gagner and Ebbs are the 3 complimentary players that will make this roster tick when they are tacticlly managed properly to suit the line catalysts.This means Dallas needs to make a template that outlines what these catalysts can best execute from their individual strengths outwards to create an optimal performance baseline like with the workouts being charted pre-season.Then he needs to consider how to use these exact 3 line catalysts against LARGE-MEDIUM -SMALL rosters,FAST-AVERAGE-SLOW opponents.This way he is prepared to NOT have to change his system focus every game,just make small accurate and OPTIMAL player line adjustments to project different strengths in different directions and degrees.

This "pairs" stuff I first remember hearing from ralph although it could have originated with Tom or Mac-T,HAS GOT TO GO.It is a terribly restricting and regressive perspective and tactical starting point.

Each NHL line IF YOU POSSES THE DEPTH OF SKILL AND TALENT, is OPTIMALLY functioned using ONE overwhelming strength to catalyse its offense and its impact.Not many teams can use this approach because players who can DOMINATE their peers in ONE ASPECT of the game are very rare indeed.You happen to have 5 or 6 men like this on one roster,lucky ducks.For this lesson we are just highlighting the obvius not the OPTIMAL ones,Halls SPEED,Yakupovs SHOT,hemsky SPEED.ALL OPPONENTS IN THE NHL MUST MAKE THESE MENS STRENGTHS PRIMARY CONCERNS.If I had to bet the farm on these men providing superior execution and results of specific requests against ANY NHL peers I believe they can provide me with that immense tactical advantage.Get it?Add the correct support players and these players catalyse a winning team,with the 4th line being a swing-vote---not NEEDED to generate wins and not able to lose games on their own.Once these 3 men are properly utilised you become a 3 line offensive juggernaught,with the 4th line germinating monsters who can climb up lines as needed for the heavy lifting games.

System focus should ensure that there is no dramatic drop in effectiveness from the 1st to the 4th line.There is NO REASON that this parity should not exist.The coaches are suppossed to make the pieces fit ,it is their jobs.

If you can count on your system as CHAMPIONS DO,then the talent EXCUSE goes out the window and the expectation of 100% parity of focus and execution through 4 lines IS THERE.

A mistake past Oilers coachs have consistantly made is improper valuations and incorrect definitions of core value concepts,like for example speed,in th past the intention was to optimise the overall team speed,and all this did was waste five years worth of time because at the end of the day all that happened was we DEFINED AND CONFINED ourselves with self-imposed and league embraced identity and performance parameters.
Everything we did was at full speed and this seriously limited our tactical options on zone transitions and therefore directly affected our definitions and applications of possesion.

You pigeon-holed yourselves a decade ago man.The last 3-4 years have been a gradual forced evolution out of a one dimensional high speed breakout offensive mentality and BACK to a historiclly correct possesion/transition style of offense.This has been like pulling your own fingernails off,it has been a nightmare to change the status-quo,but if HAS BEEN DONE DEFINITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY.There are no more cracks to hide in and very SOON the NHSs idenity and true value will HAVE TO BE unveiled,there are no other righteous explanations .

The real disconnect you dum-dums missed was that after finally shedding the inadequate fast-break mentality for an optimal possesion/transition mentality the last 3-4 years ,you idiots brought in an AHL defensive specialist who mostly understands hockey from the perspective that the fast-break methods are the top of the food-chain.The man would have been a seamless fit 5 years ago or 7 years ago,but it has been one heck of a breaking in period so far.

Coincidentally once Dallas learns to properly define basic systems as per the NHS definitions he will realise just how important that fast-break style is and Potters true value to him.It is an offensive activation option he has stayed away from for good reasons,although he tried it early on and should have adjusted it and returned to it,however it is still a very effective one if used sparingly,and activated as per NHS parameters and applications not traditional ones.


So to recap for those of you who didnt connect, you CANNOT trade Sam Gagner without making serious and regressive impacts on the teams immediate AND medium term futures.Sam is currently the BEST and most ABLE line manager on the roster,1st line duties or not,he is until Nuge eclipses him the #1 option we have for managing a shooter like Yakupov.Yakupov is a league talent not just a good rookie,he is an anomoly and if he is played with men like Sam Gagner who can OPTIMISE his skillset via managment tactics instead of Nail having to use raw talent to create elite impacts then Silent Sam will quietly optimise Yakupovs skillset and provide you with at least one goal per game and in all likely hood equal the 1st lines goal output.You do NOT HAVE the depth to stretch out your line managers,they are not the same as your line catalysts so dont confuse the two,one can be both in rare cases,Hall is developing in that direction but will never eclipse Nuge.

You NEED Gagner,but for different reasons than you are valuating him on currently.

If you think more size on the 2nd line will compliment for a lack of coaching acumen you are in for a surprise.No one in their right mind would surrender the ability to ice lines 1 and 1a at the NHL level,and this roster can do that.If you add in Hemskys abilty to catalyse the 3rd line you actually have a championship level roster.

Unless you make the system fit the men Size is not going to generate you more offense anywhere in your lineup in todays NHL,optimal system managment and execution will do that,but simply putting bigger bodies there will not do the trick.

Even massive teams must score goals,that is what makes the hockey clock tick my fiendish little friends,goals goals goals,and more GOALS.

Be forewarned,your competition has made a formal contact which I have not replied to as of yet.Someone has reached out in the right spot at the right time.I am not going to wait longer than 24 hours to reply,I just recognised the contact.Once things start rolling along I am not making any effort to stop them.

I warned you this would happen.Now you must make hay while the sun still shines,because once it starts raining man I think its going to pour.You DO REALISE that once I am bound I am bound,and that means no more random internet data posts,until my obligations are completed.

Dont any of you fellas dare to say that I didnt try to help you out in the future.Your failure to reply properly for 3-4 years has been construed as an answer in itself.

Man,this one is a hardball coming straight up the middle of the plate challenging you all the way in,what are you going to do,that sucker is coming in so fast it is leaving a con-trail.There is no time to overthink this one,it is time for a gutcheck and a gutcall.

24 hrs to make your counter-move,out of a misplaced sense of loyalty is more than has been fairly earned.The window of opportunity only exists because I have not replied to the contact yet,but once I do things go where they go,the dynamics change and you are in a very very poor position.You WILL decide your own fate right to the last 24 hrs, you will OWN your own decisions,and there IS a pressing timeline now.Someone else has changed the momentum of the game if you will,and the stakes are no different than in an NHL game,possibly much larger in scope.

There were specific reason why I chose my methods of communicating,they were tactical drivers.A red flag has popped up where it couldnt possibly have manifested without certain and specific steps being taken,someone has tripped a dynamic perimeter wire,and I know exactly where they are coming from and what drove them in this direction.

Dallas,gentlemen,this IS NOT a False Flag,this is not a drill,this is live fire,what is your reply.

Gadzic-Hopkins-Jones

Hall-Gagner-Hemsky

Perron-Gordon-Yakupov

Smyth-Arcobello-Eberle


Go with these lines because you have swiss cheeze slotted in tonight on oyur gamecard.

Hit Benn and Cole right back with size and Nuge can neutralise Seguin.

Hit Horcoffs line with pure speed and light the rookie up.

Have perron go hard on shots right off the face-off like the one that burned us the other night.

Arco and Eberle are a guaranteed goal together even in limited minutes.

You dont need to keep things this way but at least do this to sap their energy for 30 minutes,give it a roll.

There arent any big analytical reasons for my line choices,they just make sense off the cuff.

No worrys this game will be easy to win,just play your system and the data posted.

Its not to late to change those lines up,you will still be able to fight your way back.

You need a major shakeup.

Change the lines immediatly,be definitive.

Hit the players I highlighted with All-game stickers 100% of the time,take pucks right at them and generally slam them hard every time they touch the puck,because you are committing 100% to central body mass on these men and hitting "through" them you will always be arriving to hit them early,just do as I say and save this game ,its not to late,if you leave these line the same you will end up yanking Bryz at 6-2 before the 2nd is over and getting lit up with an epic number by the end of 60 minutes.

Tell Anton to use hard wristers,no slappers.

Tell Nails linemates to throw pucks into the zone deep so nail can hammer guys.

Gagner needs to be shooting the puck more,Perron as well.

Lets see some nice re-directions onto their nets coming from the sideboards
throw it to the far corner of the net but two 1/2 feet to the outside and try to catch the skates of the d-man coming in to cover the backdoor.Use the d-man as a bankshot catalyst and make those crossice passes very hard and 3 inches off the ice,not flat,and very hard.

Systemwise all you need to do is use the laterally strong E/W attack,pin a forward on each board in then n-zone and have a d-man like J Schultz or Petry or whoever simply rush the puck on them through the middle and just make sure they make it a controlled rush at 80% speed not full bore,it has to be a controlled but still dangerous rush from the d-man to set up the lateral O-zone entry,all the d-man has to do is attack the middle and enter the n-zone and then he simply has to dish it to either halfboard hard and drive past the defensive coverage to finish off the give and goes he will be setting up with his rush and the use of the wingers pinned in the n=zone on the boards to flood the zone with wide lateral strength together,and with the solid short passing give and go working for them.