What's great about it? If he truly had some great system, they'd show some ability to play above their heads. They'd be more than the sum of their parts. But they're just not. Occasionally somebody makes a heroic individual effort like Lappy did last night, but for the most part they can't get pucks on net and score goals. They were 15% less effective than last year's team, which nobody was happy with.
I'm open to hearing the other side, but I watched them all year and I didn't see many hints of a great offensive system.
Carbery's job was not to create an exciting, entertaining offense just to make certain fans happy. His job was to get this team back to the playoffs. He did that.
And he did it with a roster that was worse than the roster Lavi had--a roster that did NOT make the playoffs the previous season.
On top of that, we see that Lavi's maligned coaching/system was actually top notch when applied to a better roster in NY.
So Carbery did what the coach of the top team in the league COULDN'T do, with a worse roster to boot.
Plus, it wasn't just worse, it was weak up the middle which is usually death for any hockey team (missing top 2 centers, inexperience at the position, Dowd injured).
If the offense sputters with a better roster in the next few seasons, we should look at Carbery and ask why. But right now the key takeaway is he took this MASH unit over the line when nobody expected they could make it, including his own GM based on the TDL selling, and that's impressive.
