For success in today's NHL you need to have a good PK, good PP and good skills comp.
Skill is not rewarded. They need bigger ice(?), and either bigger nets or smaller goalie pads or both.
There's no room to maneuver and the goalies cover 95% of the net.
Replacement can talk about the skilled Habs teams of the 70s but the Oilers are not built to win in today's league.
Not even with the New Asian System of Destiny.
Wrong, the NewAge Hockey System had the game pegged perfectly, and the play we lost on was targeted at least 3 times on the GDT as being where they were catalysing their o-zone offense from, the NHS called the coordinates in long before this one submarined itself, they were consistant in that plays execution right to the end and they caught us napping.
Tonight they started out trying to use an upspeed man coming in late through the neutral zone and we stopped that then they went to flooding the zone laterally and we stopped that then they began working the shots from the outside periphery of the faceoffcircles looking for second shots off of rebounds and they did this consistantly until it worked.They were keeping the puck right within2 feet of the blueline in the o-zone and catalysing from there also , this was identified early by the NHS and posted, they did this on the PP first then went to it 5 on 5.
Everything went pretty much as the NHS predictions said they would, it was two adjusted hybrids, the results will usually be the same every time, tonight both teams played a tight defense, I thought it would turn out the opposite way where we would be defensive and they would push the offense but it turned out both teams kept it tight defensively and the result was a predictible one based on the system checkmate the adjusted hybrid is vulnerable to, one which we saw a perfect example of tonight.
We should have been more aggressive tonight and pushed harder on the offense and took more risks. This would have forced them to react accordingly and the score would have still been close but more like 6-5 and this is always to our advantage , when both systems play defensive it is like an offensive trap style and the score stays just as close just lower numbers. This system checkmate cannot be broken between two adjusted hybrids, every game will result in the same dynamic results and each one will be decided by individual type goals genereated from outside the systems offense, odd plays by individuals. The systems both cancel each others transitional ability in the o-zone and both react the same ways dynamicly, they are mirrors of each other.
And if you dont play an adjusted hybrid like LA and the Oilers do now and you use a simple hybrid then you will be at a real disadvantage tacticly in the NHL, these hybrid systems are the best available being used today, the NHS is much like them both in that they are its predecessors but is also superior to both, it is an evolution that negates the dependance on the o-zone transitions and set defensive structures these systems rely on. it allows you to stop the o-zone transitions as we saw happen two ways tonight but it doesnt depend on that transition so is impossible for the hybrid systems to stop.
