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Postby Gaucho » Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:51 am

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Postby Orlando Penguin » Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:18 am

These last two wins have felt pretty good, but asking your goalie @meow to make 44 saves a game isn’t a legitimate long-term success strategy.

IMO of course.
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Postby IMFC » Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:39 pm

I was really happy to see Sully match up all night. I get so frustrated when he just "rolls 4 lines" or just "switches players on lines to shake things up". I'm a big fan of the "frustrate 'em, turn 'em over, then counter-attack like a mother" strategy, so having guys like Sid and McCann out there doing that is great. Players like Rust, Guentz, Blueger, Zar will thrive with that.

This is MUCH better than "be harder to play against". Get rid of the odd-man rushes and I like our chances.

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Postby shmenguin » Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:57 pm

I was really happy to see Sully match up all night. I get so frustrated when he just "rolls 4 lines" or just "switches players on lines to shake things up". I'm a big fan of the "frustrate 'em, turn 'em over, then counter-attack like a mother" strategy, so having guys like Sid and McCann out there doing that is great. Players like Rust, Guentz, Blueger, Zar will thrive with that.

This is MUCH better than "be harder to play against". Get rid of the odd-man rushes and I like our chances.
Do you think it worked, though? Edmonton is an easy out at home. I reckon we got outplayed by a pretty lousy team.

Maybe some small nuggets to appreciate. I agree. But I don’t think Sully figured things out over night. He just has better depth.

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Postby IMFC » Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:23 pm

I was really happy to see Sully match up all night. I get so frustrated when he just "rolls 4 lines" or just "switches players on lines to shake things up". I'm a big fan of the "frustrate 'em, turn 'em over, then counter-attack like a mother" strategy, so having guys like Sid and McCann out there doing that is great. Players like Rust, Guentz, Blueger, Zar will thrive with that.

This is MUCH better than "be harder to play against". Get rid of the odd-man rushes and I like our chances.
Do you think it worked, though? Edmonton is an easy out at home. I reckon we got outplayed by a pretty lousy team.

Maybe some small nuggets to appreciate. I agree. But I don’t think Sully figured things out over night. He just has better depth.
I just like the fact that he did something tactical. I'm sick and tired of us never purposefully taking something away from the other team. But yes, by all means I need to see Gaudreau get shut the f out on Saturday. Period.

And he still hasn't stopped the odd-man breaks, so he has lots of actual coaching work to do. So dooo.

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Postby MR25 » Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:35 pm

Blaming the coach for players putting themselves out of position and giving up and odd-man break?

Interesting.

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Postby IMFC » Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:52 pm

Blaming the coach for players putting themselves out of position and giving up and odd-man break?

Interesting.
I blame the coach for not being able to coach them. To be in the right position. Yeah. It's not like he's trying to coach them to be taller or something.

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Postby meow » Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:42 pm

Line match ups are dumb

Prove me wrong

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Postby mikey » Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:02 pm

I can't remember the last time I matched lines...I don't like it...

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Postby willeyeam » Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:36 pm

Well one line of thinking won back to back cups and the other turned out to be mikey

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Postby mikey » Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:38 pm

Huh? You think Sullivan is a line matcher?

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Postby meow » Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:12 pm

Womp womp

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Postby shmenguin » Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:07 pm

That always seemed like a ton of work at the cost of more useful real-time coaching.

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Postby Lelldorin » Fri Feb 15, 2019 3:20 am

I seem to recall that Boston played Chara against Crosby a lot when both teams were good? And that Zetterberg shadowed Crosby? I might be remembering it wrong, but otherwise I would call it some kind of line matching?

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Postby mikey » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:08 am

That happened and that is, to whatever degree, line matching...

Sullivan doesn't do that really. That said, no coach wants Garrett Wilson on the same sheet as Connor McDavid...well...unless you coach Connor McDavid...

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:11 am

Except Wilson and Co. were deployed on several occasions against McDavid when the Pens had the choice...

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Postby Gaucho » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:19 am

Well, when the big guys were on the ice against him they didn't even seem to be aware of his and Draisaitl's presence.

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Postby mikey » Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:19 am

Yeah?

Well, then he's officially the least line matchiest coach in the league then...

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Postby Rx6687 » Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:10 am

As far as matching defensive players against his opponents, it's easy for Sully because Letang plays like 56 out of the 60 minutes every game..

In all seriousness, Edmonton just isn't that good. They have a handful of elite players and zero depth. So if you'd 'match' your top line with theirs and let your other three lines defeat theirs, it works out pretty well. I'm really liking the 4th line mix of Cullen/ZAR/Blueger/Wilson. I'm fine with those guys moving forward - although I'd NEVER scratch ZAR or Blueger for Wilson.

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Postby willeyeam » Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:50 am

compared to Bylsma he seems to be

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Postby mikey » Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:11 am

Compared to Bylsma, Sullivan matches more? Or Sullivan matches less?

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Postby IMFC » Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:07 am

compared to Bylsma he seems to be
That's the point. I don't see any difference between the two. They both literally say "we just have to get to our game". That seems to work for about 2 years, then gets old and they have no answers.

What I'm praising is - for one game - he gave the team an identity, a target, something they could define and work around. Doesn't have to be line-matching every night, but there has to be a lever. This is the only way out of the inconsistent performances. We're just not athletic and mean enough to wing it, especially on D.

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Postby Gaucho » Fri Feb 15, 2019 11:31 am

Sullivan is pretty much the anti-Bylsma in that he is not stubbornly clinging to whatever used to work before the rest of the league caught up. And I think, overall, Sullivan has been more than willing to give young players the chance to succeed and contribute.

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Postby meow » Sat Feb 16, 2019 11:47 am

Line matching is for inferior teams and/or inferior players. Which Sullivan doesn’t have to worry about because 80 of the 82 games, he has the best offensive player and the best line.

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Postby Blue Canary » Sat Feb 16, 2019 4:19 pm

Insurance goals are pretty...
Insurance goals are good.
Seems that all we ever wanted was a scorer.

This is a call to all.
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