Management Thread | Regular Season Edition
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More a coaching post than management but there is no Tocchet/Coaching threads.
The Canucks need to change up their PP's Different players, different system.
PP1 one way and PP2 different if needed.
An idea;
For one I think Hughes is starting to carry the puck too much, maybe because he is trying to do too much? But other players start having to watch him too much rather than just for passes. Fixation IMO.
And teams are so used to Hughes being on the PP maybe they should put him on PP2 and allow him more liberty to be creative. The 2nd PP has more defensive minded players out there then too.
Creativity of coaching;
Change PP1 personal, and have a defenceman with a shot on the point, one timers.
PP1;
Miller, Pettersson, Lindholm/Mikheyev as net front
Myers and Zadorov on points, maybe even get Zadorov in front of the net.
Myers has a wicked slap shot, Zadorov does too but looks for wrist shots more. But the one timer from the point is missing from the Canuck PP, both of them but PP2 needs a little more forward skill/scoring.
PP2
Hughes - Hronek
Joshua/Lafferty/Garland/Boeser/Lindholm/Mikheyev?
? and Garland on the half wall.
Boeser/? net front
Hronek for one timers and Hughes all over the place, rover.
Maybe even try Soucy/Myers or Zadorov in front of the net. Joshua once he comes back was working there pretty well.
Put the biggest guys in front of the goalie it sure used to work for Chicago with Byfuglien and San Jose with Burns.
Shake it up
The Canucks need to change up their PP's Different players, different system.
PP1 one way and PP2 different if needed.
An idea;
For one I think Hughes is starting to carry the puck too much, maybe because he is trying to do too much? But other players start having to watch him too much rather than just for passes. Fixation IMO.
And teams are so used to Hughes being on the PP maybe they should put him on PP2 and allow him more liberty to be creative. The 2nd PP has more defensive minded players out there then too.
Creativity of coaching;
Change PP1 personal, and have a defenceman with a shot on the point, one timers.
PP1;
Miller, Pettersson, Lindholm/Mikheyev as net front
Myers and Zadorov on points, maybe even get Zadorov in front of the net.
Myers has a wicked slap shot, Zadorov does too but looks for wrist shots more. But the one timer from the point is missing from the Canuck PP, both of them but PP2 needs a little more forward skill/scoring.
PP2
Hughes - Hronek
Joshua/Lafferty/Garland/Boeser/Lindholm/Mikheyev?
? and Garland on the half wall.
Boeser/? net front
Hronek for one timers and Hughes all over the place, rover.
Maybe even try Soucy/Myers or Zadorov in front of the net. Joshua once he comes back was working there pretty well.
Put the biggest guys in front of the goalie it sure used to work for Chicago with Byfuglien and San Jose with Burns.
Shake it up
this team lacks players with a killer instinct mentality. besides miller nobody else on this team stands out. especially the top players. petterson is a ghost. boeser comes and goes.
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Toffoli 4 games, 4 goals, 5 points since joining the Jets.
Really wonder why we didn't go for him.
Really wonder why we didn't go for him.
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May I ask what you don't like about her here? Tough crowd.
Cause we didn't have cap space even with a retained Toffoli.... and keep in mind we gained cap space to when we got Lindholm, so getting him didn't stop us from getting Toffoli.
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That's only cause we're carrying more players than we need to. Send Pod and/or Aman down and we could have brought Toffoli in with a broker deal. Now would New Jersey have bothered to wait on that? Who really knows.
We would still need to pay a 3rd party to get 75% retention. So if they look at him as a pure rental then the price was too much.
Most of what the new regime has done I agree with. Obviously, there are mistakes they have made, like Mikheyev, cough cough. Despite the occasional misstep, they seem to have a clear idea about what needs to be done for them team. So I'm very much of the mindset to give them a pass for any stumbles the team has had this season.
Seriously, who of us expected the Canucks to be a top 5 team this season? Unexpected as it is, I feel like management has had to adapt on the fly to this reality. Could they go all the way? Knowing that's a possibility has surely shaped the decisions Allvin et al have made so far.
Seriously, who of us expected the Canucks to be a top 5 team this season? Unexpected as it is, I feel like management has had to adapt on the fly to this reality. Could they go all the way? Knowing that's a possibility has surely shaped the decisions Allvin et al have made so far.
I think that's how it was under Gillis, the GM roles of the AHL team fell under the job responsibilities of the AGM of Hockey Operations.
And the AGM of Player Personnel was contract negotiations / cap guru.
I have heard dozens and dozens of so-called experts describe the skills and weakness of prospects and players over the years, none are better than Higgins in his assessments.
He knows his stuff.
So this will come in handy in his future media hits between Cave-On Foods commercials...
He knows his stuff.
So this will come in handy in his future media hits between Cave-On Foods commercials...
kanucks25
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That's a very strange transition lol.
Perhaps he himself doesn't want to be on the hockey side anymore?
I can't imagine they would "demote" him in this way.
Where did Chris Higgins' brother go? He was posting on this forum before. Would be interesting to get the reasoning from him.
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Yeah that move makes no sense for me for Higgins to go from player development/management track to content creation
kanucks25
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Last posted over two years ago unfortunately. Still an incredible username.
AwesomeInTheory
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Hopefully Higgins is on board. A lot of ex-hockey players try getting back into the game not knowing what they want to do. Maybe he doesn't want to make the trek out to Abbotsford.
Pat Conacher was the GM of the Comets under Gillis.
