GDT: PP Specialist visiting Shrek and his GF, 8PM

[g00n]

BB is not the same coach he was in DC. He's said as much. No way to know what would've happened if he stayed.

 

[Capitlols]

BB is not the same coach he was in DC. He's said as much. No way to know what would've happened if he stayed.

System-wise he looks the same, but he has better personnel and veteran leadership.

 

[g00n]

System-wise he looks the same, but he has better personnel and veteran leadership.

I don't have a link to the interview but he said he's changed. He line matches and uses more strategy now, by his own admission. And that was the chief complaint against him here...he did not adjust in-game or during a playoff series. Just let it fly for the most part.

 

[HunterSThompson]

I don't have a link to the interview but he said he's changed. He line matches and uses more strategy now, by his own admission. And that was the chief complaint against him here...he did not adjust in-game or during a playoff series. Just let it fly for the most part.

Here you go. Link

“George is great. I really like George, but Bob Murray is more challenging and in your face as a GM. The things that he will bring up, you’d look over and you’d realize you need to get better at certain things, and I think I’ve gotten better because of it….

“Matchups, matching lines is probably the biggest thing,” he said. “We have personnel to match where I didn’t think in Washington a lot of times we did. It’s one of those things where now we’re doing it all the time; it’s not just once in a blue moon. I used to match lines in the last five games of the year getting ready to go to the playoffs and now we’re matching lines the whole year so it’s going to be a normal thing for them.”

 

[RandyHolt]

it's mind boggling that over an 82 games season he would start considering to line match 5 games before the playoffs started. And that was likely in his 3rd year.

Coaches seem so stubborn about the regular season, treating every game as if our playoff lives depended on a Friday in Columbus. Half the damn league makes the playoffs. Try some new things, lines, approaches. Start testing line matches for that team we will face in a playoff run.

I am glad Bruce has changed but wish George would have suggested he started doing what other coaches have been doing for decades on end, if not in year 1 of the league.

Bruce jamming Ovi down their throats got us into the playoffs. Lets expand on your approach a bit - and we may well still have Bruce here today.

I guess its easy to see why our prospects struggle with George overlooking them yet not really having a plan. He just watches.

 

[g00n]

Here you go. Link

That's the quote, thanks. I don't recall him line-matching at all so I'm a little suspicious of the 5 games bit. Maybe he did it one year, for a few shifts? There were no adjustments at all in the MTL and TB series losses that I could see.

 

[Hivemind]

Bruce did line match in the playoffs, generally. Not sure how much so in Montreal (they were mostly reacting to our big guys), but he definitely did against Pittsburgh, New York, and Tampa Bay (when we weren't already trailing in the game).

 

[g00n]

Bruce did line match in the playoffs, generally. Not sure how much so in Montreal (they were mostly reacting to our big guys), but he definitely did against Pittsburgh, New York, and Tampa Bay (when we weren't already trailing in the game).

How? If he had 3 scoring lines and didn't match during the season, as he said, then what did he do differently in the playoffs? I don't recall the roster changing that much from regular season to the playoffs. I don't mean the basics but real adjustments.

 

[RandyHolt]

Bruce formed a checking line versus pitt, seemingly out of desperation or random luck. Steckel and Laich and Bradley?? I believe