It absolutely is. I literally clicked it to take that picture. I don't know how you messed up clicking a link.
Lol this is bogus. You think Keefe wanted Marner playing perimeter hockey? You think his plan was to have Marner not get any slot shots or go to the net and get rebounds or deflections or tips?
Keefe understands that he doesn't play perimeter hockey. He would know the fact that Marner does go to the net, and the slot is his most common shooting area in the playoffs over the past two years. He would also absolutely try to exploit weaknesses that goalies have, and utilize Marner's playmaking ability from the blueline in certain situations to better set up deflections and tips for others, because that's what good coaches do. And good players like Marner do what's needed for the team, even if it hurts some meaningless shot distance percentage change stat.
So it was Keefes genius plan to get Marner to shoot further from the net and shoot much less slot shots in the playoffs vs the season? And he specifically told Marner..."the plan is for only your stats are gonna get substantially worse than others"?
Most of his shots weren't further from the net. He had a couple dump-ins registered as shots in the playoffs, skewing the average, and took a couple extra shots from the blueline to set up tips/deflections, exploit a known weakness in a goalie they faced, and score some goals. He also doesn't shoot less from the slot. Over the past 2 years, he averaged 1.41 slot shots per game in the regular season, and 1.39 in the playoffs.
Dont need stats to see that he is too cute and plays too much on the perimeter (though we have the stats too). Watch the video I posted where Keefe specifically says the Leafs don't score playoff style goals. He said this while the team was doing very well in the standings. However, he wanted to address it early because he wanted his players to go to the net and get some greasy goals and deflections.
I just clicked on your link - I guess your perception of the world really is different.
Every coach preaches going to the net and getting dirty goals, but that doesn't mean all 5 skaters should be in the crease at all times. Sometimes, you have a playmaker setting up tips and deflections in front. Sometimes, you shoot through established screens. Sometimes, you want to exploit and gameplan around known weaknesses in a goalie's game, like the one that Tampa's former assistant coach (not me) noted about Vasilevsky. That helped us win. Some of this is also just you not understanding the stats you're trying to use.
Clearly not, but it seems you can't admit you were wrong. I'll just assume that you mixing up that post with an unrelated one 13 pages and 377 posts back was just another one of your innocent mistakes...
Again absolutely ridiculous...
Marner does all of those things, though obviously coaching is about using a player to their strengths, so you'd generally want your playmakers to focus more on playmaking, goal-scorers to focus more on deflections and rebounds, grinders to focus more on screens, fighters to focus more on fights, etc. And when a goalie has a weakness, you take advantage of it.
lol...that isnt what coaches do. All coaches want their players playing in the dirty areas and picking up dirty goals.
Dam I must have missed the success part and plain back luck in all this missed cups
Coaches absolutely play to the strengths of players, give them different roles and responsibilities, and put them in positions to help the team the most. They also absolutely game plan around the weaknesses of opposing goalies. Hockey isn't just 18 identical clones always skating straight for the crease.
I agree with you there, it just doesn't seem like that will ever be part of his game unfortunately.
It will be really interesting to see his usage at the Four Nations tournament. Mayne Cooper will get through to him? It could be the first time in years that he wouldn't see the ice in a 6 on 5 situation with Canada needing a goal. McDavid, Mackinnon, Makar, Point, Crosby, Reinhart, Stone, even Marchand or Hyman if he makes it. Those players are either better than Marner or have a history of scoring clutch goals, which Marner does not have. I wonder in he will pout about riding the pine late in a game or being on PP2.
