Ok,I see a way.
Look that was another great effort from the roster and another great try by the coaches.
Players Grade-- 8.0
Coaches grade-- 5.0
The players scored higher this game and the coaches not so much.
Remember their second goal last night? Look at the post made at 9:46 and try to tell yourself that isnt exactly what I was telling you to do.
In fact get the televised version of the game and compare it to my posts and watch the game as you read,dont read them all first,look at the times I
posted and then evaluate the changes you should have made to win the game.
I have already posted many times during LA games to NHL teams and the tactical observations are nearly always the same for the last 3 years.
I have given much more detailed posts to the Oilers in the past about LA games on various sites.
Nothing really changed,yet every time the team plays LA I see a different face,how is that possible?LA hasnt changed much.
The effort last night showed EXACTLY why the current roster can win the Stanley Cup just as they are, the Kings were shut down big time,they were in
shock for most of the game.
They survived and I was as surprised at that fact as I was to see the Kings FLIP a puck over our collapsed coverage to an open man exactly as we were
supposed to do,they could have scored a thousand other ways but it had to be that way for some reason.Strange huh?
I cannot fault the coaches because they came out with a decent gameplan,all I can do is mark their grade lower because they brought a "compete"
gameplan not a WIN one and it showed.
There are ways to play the Kings that allow you to inject wayyy more offense than was seen in that game.They WANT to keep it close and with the system
they play it is extremely easy to make them open up and to overwhelm them with offense.
70% of the job was done last night.
The pre-game plan was flawed,in the sense that it wasnt designed to draw blood,it was designed to level the playing field against a bigger team,it did
what it was capable of and that just wasnt enough.And there werent many adjustments available to begin with,although some nice ones were defintely
made during the game they were adjustments that had they been made pre-game would have allowed the team to attack from the 1st shift on.
Once you create a system checkmate with LA it is easy to out score them.Had this been done early we would have outscored them in all 3 periods.
The coaches need to realise that they get very very few major system adjustments during a game,generally 3.
That means they may get 2 or 3 depending on how the game goes and who starts off with possesion.
If you cannot read the oppositions intentions earlier than they can realise the true impact they can have on you then you are behind the eight ball
off the bat.
All you hockey coaches know very well that there are traditional parameters to how far head a coach can predict the oppositions adjustments.So dear
Dallas,and dear Moose,if I am consistantly and accurately reading and reacting better than NHL coaches there MUST be a reason,reason dictates this
right?So what is it? A cheat sheet? A computer program? Pure Intuition? 4 leaf clovers growing out of my arse?
You fellas ought to know what it is,just think about what you DONT HAVE ENOUGH OF,not what you dont have because that is what is preventing an optimal
self-valuation from happening for you,you have what you need and its what every NHL coaching team has,you just need MORE than other teams have.
You have statistically catalysed hybrid-intuition being represented as pure intuition.
Your deeply knowledgable hockey managment crew is steeped in hybrid-intuition but epiclly lacking in pure intuition.
This is because ALL hockey resources you use will have this same type of hybrid-intuition.Hockey is a stats represented sport.
Where the Oilers excell is in the possesion/transition style of game,this roster can really make consistntly accurate zone transitions for 60
minutes,it is the initiation managment and finishing of those transitions which need to be addressed.
How they are started as a sequence.And where.
How they are managed.Exactly what puck managment tactics do the coaches want to see,not free choices out there.
How the shots are managed.Is there a Tactical Shooting Program in place,and if not,WHY not,and if there is is it a COMPLETE ONE.And if it is complete
has it been tailored to the current Oilers system,because it MUST BE.And it must be adjusted every time the system changes.
The coaches need to wake the heel up and remember what I posted about their problems being caused by an inability of top down managment to get onto
the same timeline,well here is the PLATINUM example of why this dynamic fails to improve.
How this for a zinger.You are all coaching from the wrong perspective.
You all need to begin coaching possesions and then transitions,instead of whatever it is you have been trying to coach.
Your NHL games are evolving these ways,and you arent managing these things optimally yet,not even near optimally.
If you cannot simplify the transition game you cannot determine how to evolve your possesion parameters.
You must prepare your system to initiate itself offensively against ALL types of NHL systems and rosters and pressures,that is a basic tenant one
would expect.This means you need ONE catalyst you can manage optimally so you can win consistantly or several catalysts you can manage sub-optimally
well enough to win a few games.i am referring to the first defensive zone exit transition,the most important one of all to every NHL team.This has
been the bane of the team for over ten years.It is what initiates the skillsets this team has or what neutralises that talent and skill.It has nothing
to do with a battle between responsible defense and a lack of defense ,it is about how the defense is initiated or activated for the 1st zone
transition up-ice.
If you compare LA,Chicago,and the Blues alongside the Oilers ,toss in Vancouver and I will show you the exact same ways all of these teams have
recently changed and adjusted the same ways.I will show you which adjustments would be optimal for which team.
Coaching hockey is a chess game,did you know that Big Blue CHEATED to bet Kasparov?Thats right they cheated tio win.
Statistics cannot defeat intuition,ever unless there is cheating involved.In hockey even though it is a statisticlly represented sport INTUITION is
the optimal managment tool.This is why all these different teams have simply added one facet or two of the entire database,they cant manage it all on
their own or they would be doing so right now.
Each principal needs to be tailored using strong intuition so it fits seamlessly into an existing system ,oh sure you can use duct tape and
bubblegum[stats based thinking] and hope she holds together long enough for you to learn enough to keep things stable.But there will be little to no
evolution because the original managment protocal is 100% intuition based,so really even if you know the various concepts and also know you want to
incorporate them,you CANNOT do it,to do it one by one would take literally years and more coaches than teams use now.One or two basic core value
changes are all most systems and coaches can reasonably handle.
I have said it since I invented the NHS, you NEED an Intuitive person to run the show,and not just any old in
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