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Team Identity
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EDIT 1: I don't think they have any identity at the moment. Feels very much a mish-mash of whatever players they can get
EDIT 2: Here is the team's 2024-2025 goal song
Good question. Arniel seems to want us to play faster and be more offensive.
The identity I've always envisioned is more of an early to mid 2000's Redwing style puck possesion type game. They weren't the fastest skating team, nor where they the biggest/meanest team, but they had a bunch of highly intelligent players that could posses the puck at will.
We tend to draft more cerebral types so I'd like to see us play an intelligent puck possesion game, based around precision puck movement and using intelligence to jump in and out of space.
But what we likely see is more of the same as the first half of last year with maybe some wrinkles added in the ozone.
hockeyarena
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I think the identity comes from the D which is clearly built around puck movement. Only problem is its not particularly talented puck movement.
WolfHouse
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So craft the future around Perfetti... didn't see that coming
So craft the future around Perfetti... didn't see that coming
Cole isn't the only Cerebral player we've drafted and developed. Most of our core and many of our prospects are Cerebral and excel in a robust 5 man switch type cycle offense. The loan exception would be Ehlers.
I actually came up with it to get the most our of our offensive dmen like JoMo, Ville and to a less extent Pionk. None save JoMo have the ability to walk teams and use their skating to pull teams completely out of shape like a Makar or Hughes. But they are intelligent at reading when to jump/rotate in. Incorporating more 5 man rotations imo allows us to get the most out of our dmen offensively.
Let's now get to our skilled forwards. Scheifele is our best forward and he's neither the fastest, grittiest, or most skilled. But he's a very smart player who is excellent at holding the puck, finding open ice, and finding people in open ice. He does his best work off of extended cycles in which quick switches create those seams for him to exploit.
You bring up Perfetti but he's just another high IQ player that this org likes to draft. He like Mark also excels at exploiting space created off of those 5 man cycles.
While KC and Vilardi aren't as Cerebral with the puck, both are excellent at finding those seams and holes and then finishing in tight. A player like Barlow is cut from the same mold.
I've been arguing to come up with an offensive scheme that plays to the strengths of our skilled players for ages. My wanting a possesion based offense preceeded Cole even being drafted by the team. I have long felt our coaches have dumbed down our offensive schemes when we have the smarts to run more robust systems.
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It is a good question but until i see how Arniel is going to run the team i really have no idea. We seem to have a little bit of everything but all of those things have to come together or we are just a average team.
Jetfaninflorida
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I think we are in trouble when the most talked up off season thing is how great Cole Perfetti is (going to be).
