Around the NHL: PTO Season Becomes Waiver Season
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ForsbergMoDo21
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I guess for the NCAA players who don’t want college life to end, the Coyotes make a good destination.
Der Jaeger
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My son trains at a PEP academy. The skill level difference is real. He’s 12 and can do stuff that’s eye popping. All the kids in the academy are like that. The game is changed.I think three major factors that are driving the increase in scoring.
The first is the focus on skills development at all levels of the game. You see more and more young players entering the game with elite level offensive skills. And you see veterans working more on skills in the off season when the focus used to be mostly on strength and conditioning.
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The second factor has been GMs changing how they build rosters. Gone are the 6 shift a night fighters and you see more and more teams with 3rd lines that can really score when it used to be that teams really only had two scoring lines, a checking line, and an energy line.
The third factor is how analytics and the idea of the royal road and shot quality have changed how teams attack offensively to be more efficient.
I don't think goaltending is worse as much as it is the cat and mouse game between goalies and shooters swinging back more towards the shooters with the changes that have taken place throughout the game.
Goaltending technique already changed but it hasn’t reached the NHL in force yet. Levi plays the new method that Korn is now teaching. Goalies Inc is teaching it was well.
It’s going to take 2-3 years for it to gain traction. But, as you can see with Levi, it works.
In short, Korn used the royal road models to inform technique change. He started having goalies play on their toes, forward more in the upper body, less sliding and staying down, always seeking to get back to skating positions, and downward tracking.
Kids puck handling skills .... while moving their feet .... is mind boggling compared to what my sons learned and could do 15 years ago. Closest analogy I can make is Japanese Benihana chefs and their knives! The relationship between stick 'n puck is symbiotic these days.
Skating foot work has completely revolutionized compared with what I taught just 5 years ago. Edge work is heavily emphasized with lots of technique adopted from figure skating. Skinner gives us lots of examples on ice but he's even behind the times. It used to be about power. Now it's a marriage of edge technique with power. Cale Makar regularly displays examples of these skills. Hell, I can't demonstrate any of that!
Finally, I credit small area games not just for more puck touches but how it emphasizes and improves puck and body control in tight spaces. Todays players don't stand and wait for line drills anymore. Constant fluid motion and control in tight spaces is a revolution in progress. Crosby started the shift with his tight corner/boards spins and puck protection. It's progressed beyond what Sid will show you in You Tube videos of him from 15 years ago.
My hero's from the 70's would be embarrassed by the skills and speed of todays comparable entry level NHL players. What these kids can do just blows me away......
Adding to the conversation about how scoring has been going up, that chart also corresponds to the shift toward more skilled puck moving defensemen. Shooters have gotten better with the improvements in stick technology and also things like the shooting rooms yet they also now get pucks up the ice so much better from not that long ago when teams would have A specific PMD and a bunch of ankle breakers. The attitude shift that instead of having to break everyone's ankles, that it was easier to defend if your team has the puck and is in the opposition zone has risen around the league.
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Der Jaeger
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Yeah, the biggest difference I see all the time is the ability to move hands and feet simultaneously with heads up, at speed. It’s crazy how if that’s trained while the nervous system still has a high level of plasticity, how a kid can get good at it real fast.
The Toronto pro PEP academy had Tyler Toffolli in it for a year. He left, but not because the training wasn’t valuable. He just couldn’t do it. He brain had already figured out how to play hockey and the simultaneous movement wasn’t part of it.
These skill development trained kids are just starting to make the NHL. In 10 years it’ll be even more tipped towards skill.
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Jim Bob
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Jim Bob
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Der Jaeger
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Like anything, it also has to be in moderation. As a military planner and leader, we study McNamara’s “whiz kids.” Robert McNamara fought the Vietnam War with some of the best minds in the US doing the strategic planning. And it backfired horribly.
I really like the great hockey mind surrounded by quants front office, which is a lot of what Adams has done. But there does need to be a voice of moderation or even counter to the general consensus, and that person needs to be listened to.
In the military, post-Vietnam, we created a group called “red teamers.” They challenge the general consensus and force new lines of thought. Not always successful because ducks like ducks, but there is some movement.
Botterill is a great example of a really good hockey mind who didn’t have someone in the room to challenge him. Francis is using him well but also probably acting as the break guy.
Jim Bob
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With the scouts, Karmanos, and Ventura and crew, all having a voice in the decision making process, I think Adams has set things up well to get a variety of opinions that use a variety of methods to come up with. And that does seem like a solid way to go about making decisions to me.
Jim Bob
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Der Jaeger
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I think Adams’ role is also the sanity check. He’s got a great group of scouts who probably give the older school thoughts. His analytics departments give the statistical analysis. Karmanos and Ventura are veteran front office guys.
After a decade of front office shenanigans, it a well formed group now.
Jim Bob
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I'm surprised Werenski is skating with the team, even if out of position. I would assume he sits and they go 11/7.
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
WhereAreTheCookies
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Might still be better than that 14-15 Sabres line-up they rolled out at the end of the season.
Zman5778
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Danforth was a part of the Sabres org down in Cincinnati for a year. He went to Finland and came back and has been a depth guy for the Jackets. I will always root for him (except tomorrow).
Sweezey is another in a long line of Sabres dev camp invitees who wind up as pro hockey players. The best defenseman of that group is probably Chatfield who Buffalo decided to not sign and went first to Vancouver but Sweezey is another. We could name it the Kevin Czuczman Trophy.
Werenski is just skating with the team to skate with the team. He won't be playing. Sounds like 11/7 for the Jackets tonight.
Hartley telling Biron that Treliving is looking at a 5-year extension? That can't be current...
I'd be surprised.
Though I'm not sure you can blame him for what happened with Huberdeau and all that. I think he did a pretty good job after losing Gaudreau and knowing he had to move Tkachuk to get Huberdeau and Weegar and sign Kadri. Just didn't work out.
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
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