- Dec 29, 2016
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It's hard to say what the tactical plan was -My thoughts on Bones is he needs strong assistants for the more tactical aspects of the game. Our offense went into the shitter when Lauer went down and improved again once he got back.
No issue with him overseeing the integration of our youth. We need our next wave to have a good defensive foundation to their games.
Our offense crashed but so did the game plan from earlier in the season -
It looked to me like Bones directed most of his attention to getting the guys back to that plan - which wasn't complicated but required 100% buy in.
It was very much work based - and that's where the struggles began. If you can't get them back on track to the basic message, it might be hard to start looking at tactical. And at the very least, the basic game plan needs to be priority one.
I would say that the players were likely more interested in tactics over a plan based on hard work and a basic hockey strategy.