Coaching and Special Teams Preview

[glenngineer]

http://alongtheboards.com/2015/09/nashville-predators-coaching-special-teams-preview/

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[cleangene63]

As witnessed from tonight's game, the special teams need quite a bit of coaching.

 

[mikemcburn]

As witnessed from tonight's game, the special teams need quite a bit of coaching.

From the numbers only, it seems that tonight's pp time was used as toe dipping practice, and not necessarily for typical scenarios. Like with Hutton being pulled 4 mins early in the 3rd to try out the Pred's 6 on 4 roulette with each of Smith, Fisher, Ribero, and Forseburg playing the whole 2 minutes on the pp. Smith, who hadn't seen any pp in the first 40 mins and Fisher who'd only touched the ice for :44 seconds at pp over the first 40 mins.

I wouldn't read a lot into it, other than say Smith, Wilson, Moses, Hodgson, Fisher, Forsberg, Riberio and apparently Jarnknork are being looked at as the 6-8 pp guys who might comprise units.

Also, it was the first game for guys like Jackman and Hodgson, and the first time Jackman and Jones paired up - combining for a -7 at one point the game, lol.

I wouldn't panic anyway.