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It is always nice to imagine that as a fan you could be the one making the calls from the bench,most kids grow up wanting to score the winning Stanley Cup goal in overtime,not me,I grew up wanting to be the grey/ bald-headed general calling the shots,I wanted to be the "BOSS".I wanted to be the man sending the right men out to do battle,the "Man Behind the Bench".I had dreams of orchestrating fantastic battles ,heroic epic deeds--initiated by my very tactics and words.
I guess we all have very different dreams but I have never heard anyone else claiming they dreamed of being an on-ice general.I hope I am ok,ha ha ha.
We all like to comment post game on the things we saw that excited us the most about the game we just witnessed,and there are thousands of places to post those comments amongst brethren who are like minded.However,if you happen to be fan of coaching and its many finer points it is hard to find a place to hang your hat and share your excitement.There is a definate gap between posting about the plays you see the men on the ice executing and the decisions the coaches are making on the bench,the two perspectives just do not easily mix on open forums.So here is my first thread that concentrates on a "Couch Coaches"perspective as a priority,that focuses on the behind the bench decisions and extra-dimensional observations that have more to do with dynamic motivation and dynamic planning and tactics as executed by the Coaching staff than with the actual on-ice action.
If you are not interested in coaching and team managment dynamics and their in depth discussion then possibly this is not the thread for you,please be aware that this is what you will find here on this thread.
Heres my evaluation of the Edmonton Oilers current coaching situation as it relates to the total constellation of dynamic interactions we see within the organisation at every level from the Farmteam to the Frontoffice.
It is always nice to imagine that as a fan you could be the one making the calls from the bench,most kids grow up wanting to score the winning Stanley Cup goal in overtime,not me,I grew up wanting to be the grey/ bald-headed general calling the shots,I wanted to be the "BOSS".I wanted to be the man sending the right men out to do battle,the "Man Behind the Bench".I had dreams of orchestrating fantastic battles ,heroic epic deeds--initiated by my very tactics and words.
I guess we all have very different dreams but I have never heard anyone else claiming they dreamed of being an on-ice general.I hope I am ok,ha ha ha.
We all like to comment post game on the things we saw that excited us the most about the game we just witnessed,and there are thousands of places to post those comments amongst brethren who are like minded.However,if you happen to be fan of coaching and its many finer points it is hard to find a place to hang your hat and share your excitement.There is a definate gap between posting about the plays you see the men on the ice executing and the decisions the coaches are making on the bench,the two perspectives just do not easily mix on open forums.So here is my first thread that concentrates on a "Couch Coaches"perspective as a priority,that focuses on the behind the bench decisions and extra-dimensional observations that have more to do with dynamic motivation and dynamic planning and tactics as executed by the Coaching staff than with the actual on-ice action.
If you are not interested in coaching and team managment dynamics then possibly this is not the thread for you,please be aware that this is what you will find here on this thread.
Heres my evaluation of the Edmonton Oilers current coaching situation as it relates to the total constellation of dynamic interactions we see within the organisation at every level from the Farmteam to the Frontoffice.
As i have been experiencing proplems with losing posts here on HF before they can be made completely,I posted the introduction first to ensure the Post would stick.
I believe we are in the midst of a leaguewide evolution of NHL hockey,an evolution that is turning back to offense and high scoring exciting fan-friendly NHL Hockey.
This means that the NHL officials will be supporting this positive evolution as much as they can within league and rulebook mandates.Hockey badly needed this evolution to happen ASAP.Many teams are beginning to experiment with and implement new or offensively adjusted or enhanced systems of play.because NHL teams keep their system sensitive data Top Secret,we rarely hear and clear insights into this area in the media relations we watch with team coaches and managment,we are left to guess eternally.Offensive Hockey means fewer tough guys and fewer unskilled or under-equipped athletes on the ice every night.This means that many defensive minded systems do not work any longer,all the holding,interference,trapping,and dirty dangerous plays are being evolved out of Hockey,the game is being revitalised and it is forcing massive tactical adjustments by many NHL teams.
Now that the table is set we can look at the Oilers coaching past,present and immediate future.I believe that the Oilers revolutionised hockey in the 80s by kicking the offense up ten notches and finding ways to keep their defensive cohesion in support of that high octane offense.I believe that this evolution in Oilers and NHL hockey was 99% catalysed by Wayne Gretzkys mind and creativity and was 100% supported by the coaching staff or Glen Sather.I dont believe there was an existing "book"or template for these changes ,I believe Wayne was implementing them on-the-fly during games with the coaching staffs 100% support.I believe this entire 80s Oilers evolution was made possible by a tactical coaching decision to allow one players 3 dimensional on-ice vison to carry weight in the coaching /decision making department,this was a major devaition from traditional team dynamics and is easily identifiable.So I think the 80s Oilers were run entirely by Waynes INTUITION and Glen and his teams coaching abilitys working symbioticly.This is how I believe the majic was born.I believe Mark Messier learned to think Gretzkeneese and became a Hall of Famer by doing this.I believe that this greatness was catalysed through the utilisation of a controlled 3 transition system of play--a pure offensive possesion/transition system with explosive and relentless goal scoreing potential.Wayne and the players who learned Gretzkeneese fastes evolved together into a 3 dimensional thinking nucleus that led the rest of the team to many championships.
After Wayne left and Mark Messier took over we stuck with the same system,we tried to tighten it up defensively but it didnt work so we let mark lead like we let Wayne and mark did his job well because a lot of the 3 dimensional thinking nucleus was still intact so we won another Championship with Messier at the helm and our creative controlled 3 transition high powered offense clicking well.Then we lost Mark Messier and things changed forever or until recently.
Post Messier became a mess,our team lost the integrity of the 3 dimensional thinking nucleus and we reverted to a defensive mentality entirely,we tried to use a strong defense as a baseline and to implement explosive offense off of that base,and it failed miserably,we had failed to analyse and identify this relationship between the coaches and the 3-dimensional nucleus as being a very tangible dynamic.We tried to duplicate this system that was run on-the-fly based on dynamic on-ice reaction and flow by using the traditional methods.The less sucess we had injecting offense into this defensive base the tighter the defense became.And we evolved into a mediocre talented team that managed to keep a few superstars on the roster at any given time through excellent managment.We developed systems that catalysed off of these few elite players and we gravitated towards one-dimensional elite players we could base everything off of.We developed a fastbreak system catalysed off of several elite speedsters supported by a very tight defense,this almost won craig Mactavish a Stanley Cup.This was all about Mac-T and his ability to inject offense into the defensive base we had developed,and this was possible because Mac-T actually played with a few of the players who made up the 3 dimensional thinking nucleus of the Dynasty Team and he learned Gretzkeneese--he didnt know what it was or that it was happening but it happened nonetheless--and he translated that into a playoff team that used a controlled 3 transition system based off of a traditional defensive platform to inject opportunistic and creative offense exactly as LA did last year,and they had as little awareness of how they were doing it as most Dynast system support players had.
Then we hit the Tri-fecta of #1 Overall NHL draft picks and now we are facing a newage reality and an evolving NHL.And we have been forced by the exceptionally fast evolution of these picks and their cumulative ability to step into and perform at an elite level in the NHL to reasses our systems of play in a scrambling effort to match this incredible growth spurt of elite talent and skillsets.This is where we are today,at a crossroads system-wise.We are counting on Ralph Krueger to bring us a system that will allow us to maximise the assets we have on our roster immediatly,we are asking for a new more suitable system perspective ,and we are getting it.
1980s System---100% 3 dimensionally catalysed controlled 3 transition offense supported by a teamwide defensive awareness as strong in the forwards as the d-men.A non-traditional role execution was implemented systemwide and the d-men were as offensively aware as the forwards as well.
1990s/2000s System---a shift from the 80s system to a "hybrid"system 75% one dimensional thinking and 25% 3 dimensional thinking which was based off of a traditional defensive system and used traditional role execution based off of one or two elite players usually with speed to try to inject explosive fastbreak offense intermittently.
Current system-- a hybrid system from the 90-00s that has been adjusted to utilise the fastbreak
system to a greater degree and depth but in essentially the same manner,the main difference being how we are dumping the puck into the offensive zone and trying to use our superior speed and zone entry momentum to fly past the d-men and regain the puck.This is an interesting twist on using your dominant speed to execute consistantly sucessfull o-zone entrys.Really there has been no major system evlution here in many many years.
We need a system today that will allow us to maximise our talent depth through 4 lines and as completely as we can.We need an offensive system that allows our elite players to produce consistantly high numbers of goal every game.This means shots,which means o-zone possesions,which means o-zone entry,which means sucessful zone transitions.We need a possesion/transition system that allows us to get 40+shots per game and score 4+ goals per game,and we need it now.We need a system that allows our 2 and 3 dimensional thinking players the opportunity to showcase their skillsets and learn to perform multi-role functions within the system,we need ONE NEW page for everyone to be reading from.
Right now Ralph has been trying to use the fastbreak system based off of a sound defense,and it hasnt been working for us,we have been using our speed regressively when we enter the o-zone we are dumping the puck in and trying to use our momentum and slight speed advantage to REGAIN possesion of a puck we already had possesion of in the o-zone.This is a clear tactical decision on how to best use out teamwide speed.This is one interpretation of how to best use this teamwide speed.What we are now doing is learning to make our first transition out of our own zone consistantly and then we are still going to the fastbreak system and wasteing our hard work and possesions by dumping the puck in in a poorly concieved use of our speed.Everytime we fail to convert a sucessfull defensive zone transition and a possesion in the o-znoe into at least one shot and possibly two with the recovered rebound we are letting our system down and failing to capitalise on our teams hard work.We need shots and lots of them,so every possesion must be converted into a minimum of one shot on net to be competative ,and two to become winners and champions.We need to increase our high percentage shot numbers every game so we can allow our roster to use all of their weapons consistantly every game for 60 mins,We need high powered possesion conversion to shot numbers for three complete periods to feed our teams talent depth and skillsets.
I believe we need to abandon the teamwide consistant use of the fastbreak system and keep it as a specialty weapon on the 3rd line where we can put 4 one dimensional players who are elite at executing it.I think we need to embrace the Dynasty Oilers controlled 3 transition system,catalysed out of a possesion/transition system based on offense first.We need to use the same adusted hybrid we used last year during our winning streak.During that period because of our loss of Whitney and our new rookies we played a simple basic controlled 3 transition system and we rocked,we had tremendous sucess,it was after we regained our fastbreak specialist in Whitney and returned to that system that we began to implode and spiral.This is because the controlled 3 transition style allowed our rookies and our vets to fully utilise their complete skillsets and control game momentum.There is a theoretical system called the NewAge Hockey System that is based off of the Dynasty Oilers PP,and Wayne Gretzkys on-ice generalship of that powerplay,this NHS fulfill all of the needs our current roster happens to have.It is tailormade for the Oilers roster because it was actually designed specificly for them.But it is not oficially proven or validated.It is a system based on pure offense catalysed through a possesion/transition style which controls momentum and dynamic flow for 60 minutes creating 40+ plus shots and 4+ goals per game,the NHS greenlights offense from every area of the ice from within the system,all men on the ice are considered viable shot options at all times and all non-shooters are on the same page supportwise and are in a position to recover rebounds and produce second shots on every o-zone possesion. I think the Oilers need a new system of play that uses 3 dimensional tactics and maximises our deep offensive talent and skillsets for a full 60 mins.
A snapshot of the difference between what the NewAge Hockey System would dictate linewise and what we are currently doing is best illustrated this way through NHS dynamic analysis.
Our 2nd line is comprised of a one dimensional elite old veteran player and a two dimensional rookie and a three dimensional young veteran.There is a reason for this,the coaches want to use the speed of Hemsky to support the fastbreak system on this line.Hemsky is a proven vet who can use his speed effectivel to retain extreme possesion and enter the o-zone to create plays.Hemsky doesnt travel inside shooting lanes on his way into the o-zone so we rarely see unforced first shots which give us fast rebounds,and this was ok because usually Hemmer was alone and way ahead of everyone else regardless.This means we need to have our support players coming in big strong and hard to establish a net front presence and a middle lane presence to recieve Hemmers passes for one shot.one because the defenses are also set by this point and rebound recovery is mucho more difficult.In a nutshell Hemsky can only be elite if he catalyses the entire line and they are chosen to fit his personal skillset,they need to be big and strong and experienced or the line wont click and will be vulnerable.This is because our coaches fail to consider the "dimensional aspects"of the players from a system perspective as the NHS does by proxy. So what we are doing is forcing Gagner and Yakupov to fulfill system requirements that are as far from their natural skillsets as you can get ,roles that negate their advantages and expose all of their weaknesses,especially their size.Take away the one dimensional catalyst and replace it with a 2 or 3 dimensional player and you will see a totally different dynamic function systemwise.
The NewAge Hockey System would build lines out of dimensional compatability and this would mean Yakupov-Gagner-Mps,because MPS is a two dimensional thinker and he will fit with Gagner who is a 3 dimensional thinker and Yakupov who is also a 2 dimensional thinker--these three players can use their natural skillsets to play a controlled 3 transition game based off of MPSs speed and o-zone entry ability combined with his ability to force the defenses to address his size which is important when spreading them out. Mps has a natural defensive awareness that is a perfect fit for a line with 2 dominant shooters,we need both Sam and Nail to be shooting and recovering sympathetic rebounds for 60 mins coming out of controlled o-zone entrys utilising MPS as an upspeed threat consistantly,this line can produce two shots per possesion consistantly.By the same token the NHS would put Hemmer with Smyth and Horcoff because they are all remnants of systems which were born of the 90s hybrid application a fastbreak system catalysed by one elite speedster--Hemsky--this decision would force Hemmers top 6 skillset down to the 3rd line where it is most system supportive as it would force MPSs skillset up to a top 6 based on exactly the same NHS dynamic analysis .This NewAge Hockey System perspective is dependant on a controlled 3 transition style supported by dynamic analysis and evaluation.Right now we are sticking with a fastbreak system which doesnt spread our skillsets our in a balanced manner based on dynamic analysis and assesment,it instead catalyses out tactics decisions out of statistical analysis.I hope we can find a system that best suits our players because I dont believe our coaches are prepared for the lockerroom dynamics we are seeing with this explosive evolution of elite players happening concurrently throughout the entire room.
As a "Couch Coach"these are the changes I think we need to make ASAP and the reason why I feel this way,what do all the other "Couch Coaches "out there think??What are some of your ideas on what we should be doing from the bench right now??What system we should try to use??Maybe you think the system we are using now is perfect,whatever you think when you are sitting in your wheelhouse there on the couch is what we are looking for here on this thread.
It is always nice to imagine that as a fan you could be the one making the calls from the bench,most kids grow up wanting to score the winning Stanley Cup goal in overtime,not me,I grew up wanting to be the grey/ bald-headed general calling the shots,I wanted to be the "BOSS".I wanted to be the man sending the right men out to do battle,the "Man Behind the Bench".I had dreams of orchestrating fantastic battles ,heroic epic deeds--initiated by my very tactics and words.
I guess we all have very different dreams but I have never heard anyone else claiming they dreamed of being an on-ice general.I hope I am ok,ha ha ha.
We all like to comment post game on the things we saw that excited us the most about the game we just witnessed,and there are thousands of places to post those comments amongst brethren who are like minded.However,if you happen to be fan of coaching and its many finer points it is hard to find a place to hang your hat and share your excitement.There is a definate gap between posting about the plays you see the men on the ice executing and the decisions the coaches are making on the bench,the two perspectives just do not easily mix on open forums.So here is my first thread that concentrates on a "Couch Coaches"perspective as a priority,that focuses on the behind the bench decisions and extra-dimensional observations that have more to do with dynamic motivation and dynamic planning and tactics as executed by the Coaching staff than with the actual on-ice action.
If you are not interested in coaching and team managment dynamics and their in depth discussion then possibly this is not the thread for you,please be aware that this is what you will find here on this thread.
Heres my evaluation of the Edmonton Oilers current coaching situation as it relates to the total constellation of dynamic interactions we see within the organisation at every level from the Farmteam to the Frontoffice.
It is always nice to imagine that as a fan you could be the one making the calls from the bench,most kids grow up wanting to score the winning Stanley Cup goal in overtime,not me,I grew up wanting to be the grey/ bald-headed general calling the shots,I wanted to be the "BOSS".I wanted to be the man sending the right men out to do battle,the "Man Behind the Bench".I had dreams of orchestrating fantastic battles ,heroic epic deeds--initiated by my very tactics and words.
I guess we all have very different dreams but I have never heard anyone else claiming they dreamed of being an on-ice general.I hope I am ok,ha ha ha.
We all like to comment post game on the things we saw that excited us the most about the game we just witnessed,and there are thousands of places to post those comments amongst brethren who are like minded.However,if you happen to be fan of coaching and its many finer points it is hard to find a place to hang your hat and share your excitement.There is a definate gap between posting about the plays you see the men on the ice executing and the decisions the coaches are making on the bench,the two perspectives just do not easily mix on open forums.So here is my first thread that concentrates on a "Couch Coaches"perspective as a priority,that focuses on the behind the bench decisions and extra-dimensional observations that have more to do with dynamic motivation and dynamic planning and tactics as executed by the Coaching staff than with the actual on-ice action.
If you are not interested in coaching and team managment dynamics then possibly this is not the thread for you,please be aware that this is what you will find here on this thread.
Heres my evaluation of the Edmonton Oilers current coaching situation as it relates to the total constellation of dynamic interactions we see within the organisation at every level from the Farmteam to the Frontoffice.
As i have been experiencing proplems with losing posts here on HF before they can be made completely,I posted the introduction first to ensure the Post would stick.
I believe we are in the midst of a leaguewide evolution of NHL hockey,an evolution that is turning back to offense and high scoring exciting fan-friendly NHL Hockey.
This means that the NHL officials will be supporting this positive evolution as much as they can within league and rulebook mandates.Hockey badly needed this evolution to happen ASAP.Many teams are beginning to experiment with and implement new or offensively adjusted or enhanced systems of play.because NHL teams keep their system sensitive data Top Secret,we rarely hear and clear insights into this area in the media relations we watch with team coaches and managment,we are left to guess eternally.Offensive Hockey means fewer tough guys and fewer unskilled or under-equipped athletes on the ice every night.This means that many defensive minded systems do not work any longer,all the holding,interference,trapping,and dirty dangerous plays are being evolved out of Hockey,the game is being revitalised and it is forcing massive tactical adjustments by many NHL teams.
Now that the table is set we can look at the Oilers coaching past,present and immediate future.I believe that the Oilers revolutionised hockey in the 80s by kicking the offense up ten notches and finding ways to keep their defensive cohesion in support of that high octane offense.I believe that this evolution in Oilers and NHL hockey was 99% catalysed by Wayne Gretzkys mind and creativity and was 100% supported by the coaching staff or Glen Sather.I dont believe there was an existing "book"or template for these changes ,I believe Wayne was implementing them on-the-fly during games with the coaching staffs 100% support.I believe this entire 80s Oilers evolution was made possible by a tactical coaching decision to allow one players 3 dimensional on-ice vison to carry weight in the coaching /decision making department,this was a major devaition from traditional team dynamics and is easily identifiable.So I think the 80s Oilers were run entirely by Waynes INTUITION and Glen and his teams coaching abilitys working symbioticly.This is how I believe the majic was born.I believe Mark Messier learned to think Gretzkeneese and became a Hall of Famer by doing this.I believe that this greatness was catalysed through the utilisation of a controlled 3 transition system of play--a pure offensive possesion/transition system with explosive and relentless goal scoreing potential.Wayne and the players who learned Gretzkeneese fastes evolved together into a 3 dimensional thinking nucleus that led the rest of the team to many championships.
After Wayne left and Mark Messier took over we stuck with the same system,we tried to tighten it up defensively but it didnt work so we let mark lead like we let Wayne and mark did his job well because a lot of the 3 dimensional thinking nucleus was still intact so we won another Championship with Messier at the helm and our creative controlled 3 transition high powered offense clicking well.Then we lost Mark Messier and things changed forever or until recently.
Post Messier became a mess,our team lost the integrity of the 3 dimensional thinking nucleus and we reverted to a defensive mentality entirely,we tried to use a strong defense as a baseline and to implement explosive offense off of that base,and it failed miserably,we had failed to analyse and identify this relationship between the coaches and the 3-dimensional nucleus as being a very tangible dynamic.We tried to duplicate this system that was run on-the-fly based on dynamic on-ice reaction and flow by using the traditional methods.The less sucess we had injecting offense into this defensive base the tighter the defense became.And we evolved into a mediocre talented team that managed to keep a few superstars on the roster at any given time through excellent managment.We developed systems that catalysed off of these few elite players and we gravitated towards one-dimensional elite players we could base everything off of.We developed a fastbreak system catalysed off of several elite speedsters supported by a very tight defense,this almost won craig Mactavish a Stanley Cup.This was all about Mac-T and his ability to inject offense into the defensive base we had developed,and this was possible because Mac-T actually played with a few of the players who made up the 3 dimensional thinking nucleus of the Dynasty Team and he learned Gretzkeneese--he didnt know what it was or that it was happening but it happened nonetheless--and he translated that into a playoff team that used a controlled 3 transition system based off of a traditional defensive platform to inject opportunistic and creative offense exactly as LA did last year,and they had as little awareness of how they were doing it as most Dynast system support players had.
Then we hit the Tri-fecta of #1 Overall NHL draft picks and now we are facing a newage reality and an evolving NHL.And we have been forced by the exceptionally fast evolution of these picks and their cumulative ability to step into and perform at an elite level in the NHL to reasses our systems of play in a scrambling effort to match this incredible growth spurt of elite talent and skillsets.This is where we are today,at a crossroads system-wise.We are counting on Ralph Krueger to bring us a system that will allow us to maximise the assets we have on our roster immediatly,we are asking for a new more suitable system perspective ,and we are getting it.
1980s System---100% 3 dimensionally catalysed controlled 3 transition offense supported by a teamwide defensive awareness as strong in the forwards as the d-men.A non-traditional role execution was implemented systemwide and the d-men were as offensively aware as the forwards as well.
1990s/2000s System---a shift from the 80s system to a "hybrid"system 75% one dimensional thinking and 25% 3 dimensional thinking which was based off of a traditional defensive system and used traditional role execution based off of one or two elite players usually with speed to try to inject explosive fastbreak offense intermittently.
Current system-- a hybrid system from the 90-00s that has been adjusted to utilise the fastbreak
system to a greater degree and depth but in essentially the same manner,the main difference being how we are dumping the puck into the offensive zone and trying to use our superior speed and zone entry momentum to fly past the d-men and regain the puck.This is an interesting twist on using your dominant speed to execute consistantly sucessfull o-zone entrys.Really there has been no major system evlution here in many many years.
We need a system today that will allow us to maximise our talent depth through 4 lines and as completely as we can.We need an offensive system that allows our elite players to produce consistantly high numbers of goal every game.This means shots,which means o-zone possesions,which means o-zone entry,which means sucessful zone transitions.We need a possesion/transition system that allows us to get 40+shots per game and score 4+ goals per game,and we need it now.We need a system that allows our 2 and 3 dimensional thinking players the opportunity to showcase their skillsets and learn to perform multi-role functions within the system,we need ONE NEW page for everyone to be reading from.
Right now Ralph has been trying to use the fastbreak system based off of a sound defense,and it hasnt been working for us,we have been using our speed regressively when we enter the o-zone we are dumping the puck in and trying to use our momentum and slight speed advantage to REGAIN possesion of a puck we already had possesion of in the o-zone.This is a clear tactical decision on how to best use out teamwide speed.This is one interpretation of how to best use this teamwide speed.What we are now doing is learning to make our first transition out of our own zone consistantly and then we are still going to the fastbreak system and wasteing our hard work and possesions by dumping the puck in in a poorly concieved use of our speed.Everytime we fail to convert a sucessfull defensive zone transition and a possesion in the o-znoe into at least one shot and possibly two with the recovered rebound we are letting our system down and failing to capitalise on our teams hard work.We need shots and lots of them,so every possesion must be converted into a minimum of one shot on net to be competative ,and two to become winners and champions.We need to increase our high percentage shot numbers every game so we can allow our roster to use all of their weapons consistantly every game for 60 mins,We need high powered possesion conversion to shot numbers for three complete periods to feed our teams talent depth and skillsets.
I believe we need to abandon the teamwide consistant use of the fastbreak system and keep it as a specialty weapon on the 3rd line where we can put 4 one dimensional players who are elite at executing it.I think we need to embrace the Dynasty Oilers controlled 3 transition system,catalysed out of a possesion/transition system based on offense first.We need to use the same adusted hybrid we used last year during our winning streak.During that period because of our loss of Whitney and our new rookies we played a simple basic controlled 3 transition system and we rocked,we had tremendous sucess,it was after we regained our fastbreak specialist in Whitney and returned to that system that we began to implode and spiral.This is because the controlled 3 transition style allowed our rookies and our vets to fully utilise their complete skillsets and control game momentum.There is a theoretical system called the NewAge Hockey System that is based off of the Dynasty Oilers PP,and Wayne Gretzkys on-ice generalship of that powerplay,this NHS fulfill all of the needs our current roster happens to have.It is tailormade for the Oilers roster because it was actually designed specificly for them.But it is not oficially proven or validated.It is a system based on pure offense catalysed through a possesion/transition style which controls momentum and dynamic flow for 60 minutes creating 40+ plus shots and 4+ goals per game,the NHS greenlights offense from every area of the ice from within the system,all men on the ice are considered viable shot options at all times and all non-shooters are on the same page supportwise and are in a position to recover rebounds and produce second shots on every o-zone possesion. I think the Oilers need a new system of play that uses 3 dimensional tactics and maximises our deep offensive talent and skillsets for a full 60 mins.
A snapshot of the difference between what the NewAge Hockey System would dictate linewise and what we are currently doing is best illustrated this way through NHS dynamic analysis.
Our 2nd line is comprised of a one dimensional elite old veteran player and a two dimensional rookie and a three dimensional young veteran.There is a reason for this,the coaches want to use the speed of Hemsky to support the fastbreak system on this line.Hemsky is a proven vet who can use his speed effectivel to retain extreme possesion and enter the o-zone to create plays.Hemsky doesnt travel inside shooting lanes on his way into the o-zone so we rarely see unforced first shots which give us fast rebounds,and this was ok because usually Hemmer was alone and way ahead of everyone else regardless.This means we need to have our support players coming in big strong and hard to establish a net front presence and a middle lane presence to recieve Hemmers passes for one shot.one because the defenses are also set by this point and rebound recovery is mucho more difficult.In a nutshell Hemsky can only be elite if he catalyses the entire line and they are chosen to fit his personal skillset,they need to be big and strong and experienced or the line wont click and will be vulnerable.This is because our coaches fail to consider the "dimensional aspects"of the players from a system perspective as the NHS does by proxy. So what we are doing is forcing Gagner and Yakupov to fulfill system requirements that are as far from their natural skillsets as you can get ,roles that negate their advantages and expose all of their weaknesses,especially their size.Take away the one dimensional catalyst and replace it with a 2 or 3 dimensional player and you will see a totally different dynamic function systemwise.
The NewAge Hockey System would build lines out of dimensional compatability and this would mean Yakupov-Gagner-Mps,because MPS is a two dimensional thinker and he will fit with Gagner who is a 3 dimensional thinker and Yakupov who is also a 2 dimensional thinker--these three players can use their natural skillsets to play a controlled 3 transition game based off of MPSs speed and o-zone entry ability combined with his ability to force the defenses to address his size which is important when spreading them out. Mps has a natural defensive awareness that is a perfect fit for a line with 2 dominant shooters,we need both Sam and Nail to be shooting and recovering sympathetic rebounds for 60 mins coming out of controlled o-zone entrys utilising MPS as an upspeed threat consistantly,this line can produce two shots per possesion consistantly.By the same token the NHS would put Hemmer with Smyth and Horcoff because they are all remnants of systems which were born of the 90s hybrid application a fastbreak system catalysed by one elite speedster--Hemsky--this decision would force Hemmers top 6 skillset down to the 3rd line where it is most system supportive as it would force MPSs skillset up to a top 6 based on exactly the same NHS dynamic analysis .This NewAge Hockey System perspective is dependant on a controlled 3 transition style supported by dynamic analysis and evaluation.Right now we are sticking with a fastbreak system which doesnt spread our skillsets our in a balanced manner based on dynamic analysis and assesment,it instead catalyses out tactics decisions out of statistical analysis.I hope we can find a system that best suits our players because I dont believe our coaches are prepared for the lockerroom dynamics we are seeing with this explosive evolution of elite players happening concurrently throughout the entire room.
As a "Couch Coach"these are the changes I think we need to make ASAP and the reason why I feel this way,what do all the other "Couch Coaches "out there think??What are some of your ideas on what we should be doing from the bench right now??What system we should try to use??Maybe you think the system we are using now is perfect,whatever you think when you are sitting in your wheelhouse there on the couch is what we are looking for here on this thread.
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