CarltonTheBear said:
herman said:
Please Please Please Please
I'm not going to lose any sleep over an assistant coach leaving but I also don't really agree that this is something to be excited about. Hakstol seemed to do a good job with the defence/PK (yes improved personnel helped too ... edit: but as we've seen with the PP having the personnel there isn't everything). Losing both him and Hyman could be a tough blow to our PK in particular.
If he does go I wonder if Malhotra gets moved to that side of things instead of handling the forwards/PP.
I had a post in draft that I decided not to publish earlier, but the gist of it was:
- PK wasn't anything special
- defensive improvements were very obviously personnel + system tweak to 1-1-3 NZ forecheck that automatically brought 3F down to support the D; i.e. not Hakstol-specific
My excitement is largely about shifting Malhotra over to the D side (even though he played forward), and getting a new brain that knows Nylander is the correct PP choice to give Matthews more room to operate.