And lets be honest here, we are not close right now. This is not good at all.
Philly was really not good today, and sure that short-hander is a biatch to give up, but we are extremely hesitent and unsure of ourselves when we are heading up ice. In those key moments where we go out and pressure a player, wins a puck and sets of in the other direction.
I think we make good plays every now and then, plays we haven't seen in a long time. But this is not in an area where like a forward goes in and challenge a D and you more or less only got "upside" coming out of the play. You need to execute in these areas play after play, shift after shift, game in and game out. Month in and month out.
If you are slapping a percentage on successful exectued breakouts, we are probably hitting around 60 - 75 %. You do the same on the Islanders or New Jersey (I choose these as examples because nobody can claim that they got a ton of talent that we don't), you end up at around 90 %.
People are talking about Torts in this thread, under him we were probably hitting at around 98 %, but our intention was never to do anything but to get the puck out of our end and up ice. That really put us on back against better teams and we looked like utter crap for really long stretches because we got zero quality from it, but you avoid the worst misstakes.
If we ever are going to contending team in this league, we need to implement a transition game that gives us some kind of quality. Chicago, Boston, all teams that are really good in this league are superb in these areas. Its ridiculous to expect to be able to live without in the NHL 2013. But I am really puzzled right now of how we will look in the transformation process, because this -- what we are seing right now -- will not win us many hockey games. This is not good at all.
Philly was really not good today, and sure that short-hander is a biatch to give up, but we are extremely hesitent and unsure of ourselves when we are heading up ice. In those key moments where we go out and pressure a player, wins a puck and sets of in the other direction.
I think we make good plays every now and then, plays we haven't seen in a long time. But this is not in an area where like a forward goes in and challenge a D and you more or less only got "upside" coming out of the play. You need to execute in these areas play after play, shift after shift, game in and game out. Month in and month out.
If you are slapping a percentage on successful exectued breakouts, we are probably hitting around 60 - 75 %. You do the same on the Islanders or New Jersey (I choose these as examples because nobody can claim that they got a ton of talent that we don't), you end up at around 90 %.
People are talking about Torts in this thread, under him we were probably hitting at around 98 %, but our intention was never to do anything but to get the puck out of our end and up ice. That really put us on back against better teams and we looked like utter crap for really long stretches because we got zero quality from it, but you avoid the worst misstakes.
If we ever are going to contending team in this league, we need to implement a transition game that gives us some kind of quality. Chicago, Boston, all teams that are really good in this league are superb in these areas. Its ridiculous to expect to be able to live without in the NHL 2013. But I am really puzzled right now of how we will look in the transformation process, because this -- what we are seing right now -- will not win us many hockey games. This is not good at all.
