AustonMitchWilly
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New System?
Horachek said himself he will be changing the system minimally.
If you watched the game last night you could see it is already much different.
New System?
Horachek said himself he will be changing the system minimally.
Let me get this right, we're doing a "Hands Around The World", "Brand New Day" thing because Peter Horacek's Leafs won a regular season game at home on a Friday night and looked like a respectable hockey team?
They played well last night, but they did when Randy first took over too. I am not going to jump aboard to pronounce this as a changed team just as of yet.
Let's let the season play out before we can say this is a changed team. 1 good game doesn't earn you that distinction, they have to do that night in and night out.
Sounds like what the OP is asking for.
Takes 3 data points to make a trend, 1st game horrible, 2nd game great. If you were to take anything from the first 2 games is the results were inconsistent, pretty much what we had when Randy was here.
This team is not a new team its the same ole up and down Leafs. It will continue to be the up and down Leafs.
Goals were the only we were horrible at. All other aspects, we dominated.
If you watched the game last night you could see it is already much different.
There was no new system...
There was buy in to the system....effort.
The only difference I seen is us not going to a 1-3-1 in the 3rd period..we stayed with the 2--1-2 in the 3rd.
Can we, as a forum community, come together and understand that each and every individual will be asked to be doing DRASTICALLY different things under Horachek than under Randy Carlyle?
Can we, as a forum community, come together and understand that this will lead to different players doing different things, which will bring different outcomes on the ice?
Can we, as a forum community, come together and understand that this will change the negative stats that have piled up in the first 40 games?
Can we, as a forum community, come together start to evaluate the team based on what they're being asked to do, now, and not what they were being asked to do before?
Win, or lose, this team will be different than the one Randy Carlyle iced. As a true fan of this team, a bit of an optimist, and one who cant stand the volumes of negativity and unnecessary BS that people spout off, can we please start to evaluate the NEW Toronto Maple Leafs after their surgery?
Think of the firing of RC like a Breast Augmentation Surgery. We look better, and hopefully we perform better too. So lets stop talking about the saggy-ness and ugliness of the past. The team got some confidence back. A little more pep, a better attitude and a whole lot more pleasing to watch as well.
We are the NEW and IMPROVED Toronto Maple Leafs. Let's talk about them as such, let's evaluate them as such. Please.
Ron Wilson 29-28-0-7
Randy Carlyle 6-9-0-3
They scored 39 goals and gave up 62 goals in the 18 games when Randy took over. They got shut out 4 times in those 18 games. Their possession numbers got worse. Their shots/game dropped and their shots against/game rose. The Leafs didn't play better when they hired Carlyle, they played worse. The issue is that they came off a long losing streak when they fired Wilson that was never going to be a sustainable stretch of ineptitude.
And I also noticed our D was a LOT more aggressive with pinches etc.
Sounds like what the OP is asking for.
Takes 3 data points to make a trend, 1st game horrible, 2nd game great. If you were to take anything from the first 2 games is the results were inconsistent, pretty much what we had when Randy was here.
This team is not a new team its the same ole up and down Leafs. It will continue to be the up and down Leafs.
They painted a racing stripe on a turd and now it's a new start apparently.
Are you implying that Kessel is not going to back check and block shots like he did last night?
Are you implying that Kessel is not going to back check and block shots like he did last night?
New System?
Horachek said himself he will be changing the system minimally.
Perhaps not an overhaul of the previous system given that it would be difficult to implement in midseason, but very important elements have been changed and enforced. It's hard to judge from one game, but the 5-5-5 system was no where in sight with Carlyle. On the other hand, in the Columbus game you can see the gaps between defence and forwards were smaller and fowards weren't clearing the zone giving the d-men no option to get the puck out of the zone. Pretty important stuff to maintaining possession of the puck, minimizing d-zone time, and shots on goal. I wouldn't underestimate the importance of this "minimal" change to the system.