What do you think of the Canucks system? Still early for them, but Boudreau has them playing a system where they pressure puck carriers in the NZ and zone entries instead of collapsing. Again, it might just be a new coach boost but the Canucks are looking much better now. Always seemed to me that the Oilers give up the zone way too easily and the puck carriers get a lot of time to work.
I haven’t watched the Canucks much since Bruce was hired but what I remember of how he coached the Wild, Ducks and Caps is he likes to pressure opponents hard in all zones creating turnovers and a quick transition up ice.
I remember when the Ducks went into a massive scoring slump and he changed to a full on hard trap and it got them out of the slump, clawing their way back into the playoffs. Once they regained their injured players and standings position he reverted back to his pressure tactics. Great adjustment.
Requires a ton of buy in from players as it’s bloody hard work to play this way game in game out. But he’s a players coach and usually gets the buy in he needs. Vancouver has been so bad this year players will probably walk naked through poison ivy and then backwards into a cactus for him.
For whatever reason he could never coach a team into a Cup win but his teams were always in the hunt.
