Management Travis Green [Head Coach]

[Tuna99]

This last good stretch, and the poor stretch before it, has the feel of "show me a good coach, and I'll show you a great goalie" to it.

Ullmark has changed the narrative around the team, but Green had them playing well even when the wins weren't coming. We were underperforming before, and overperforming now, both situations likely had a lot to do with the goaltending.

That said, we are playing with more confidence, which means we aren't folding when something goes wrong. Hopefully that's a sign of the team maturing, and not just riding a high wave.

Also coincide with 7-9-19 being out together.

I think we started the season as a cohesive group, they lost a couple and Brady and a few players went rogue outside the system (it was chaos here for a few weeks the Sens were floating trading Norris at this time and the Brady stuff was in full swing) and I think Green got the players recommitted to the system and we see now a group that is always in formation and surrounding the puck and their passing is like it was the first 5 games of the season.

Brady looks way calmer after loses as well, I think Green got through to him and have leveled his head a bit, he’s not only playing within the system his post and pre game comments are more level and focused

And with all that, Ullmark has recent better stats then he ever did in Boston because Ottawa plays a better system then Boston does so I think the goalie and system coincided at the same time