I don’t have too much confidence in Green for tactics and systems, which I suppose isn’t totally surprising for someone who wasn’t a coach for that long before he got his shot in the NHL. His man management seems pretty good though. I also am not sure what to think about Baumgartner, but I’ve never been comfortable having two relative newbies in the two most important coaching roles. I was willing to give them a chance for a couple of years, but it’s coming time for them to produce a competent team. last year their play in the defensive and neutral zones was pretty awful, and I think it’s pretty damming of their coaching and systems that Gudbranson could look so awful here but immediately look much better in Pittsburgh.
Mostly I actually thought the Canucks played well against what I think will be a pretty good Flyers team. They kept a lot of the shots to the outside and cleaned up the garbage, but the first 15mins of the 3rd was not great. and sometimes they completely breakdown very suddenly and give up a Very high danger chance. Some of that is busted assignments but I don’t think their system is very forgiving if someone makes a mistake with very little support. And frankly you have to expect that even NHLers are going to make mistakes, especially when they’re playing well, NHLers.
Marky is looking like a top 10 goalie. But I’m a bit worried that they may overplay him and Demko will struggle with very inconsistent playing time.
