Assistant coach changes

[Highlander]

I think his Ferrat like face will scare the coaches on the opposing bench, making them quiver in fear.

 

[ZBBM]

Hakstol.  Not excited.

 

[herman]

I?m okay with this.

 

[Zee]

I mean he's coached Philly to two 1st round playoffs losses so he knows how's it's done.

 

[herman]

I mean he's coached Philly to two 1st round playoffs losses so he knows how's it's done.

https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1074798363076427776

Also by playing Andrew MacDonald a crap ton, which is crazy town.

 

[Zee]

I mean he's coached Philly to two 1st round playoffs losses so he knows how's it's done.

https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1074798363076427776

Also by playing Andrew MacDonald a crap ton, which is crazy town.

Yeah I was just being funny, I know less than zero about Hakstol as a coach.

 

[herman]

Thoughts on Hakstol?s firing from Broadstreet Hockey

 

[herman]

My favourite observation from the PPP article about this hiring is that Hakstol spent some time with the Swedish national team to learn about their systems and structure. The Leafs have a lot of Swedish defensemen coming through the pipeline (Sandin, Liljegren, Lindgren, Ros?n, Borgman). It is an opportunity to be ahead of the curve as the metagame shifts away from off the glass and out to mobile transition backs.

 

[herman]

My favourite observation from the PPP article about this hiring is that Hakstol spent some time with the Swedish national team to learn about their systems and structure. The Leafs have a lot of Swedish defensemen coming through the pipeline (Sandin, Liljegren, Lindgren, Ros?n, Borgman). It is an opportunity to be ahead of the curve as the metagame shifts away from off the glass and out to mobile transition backs.

Cool. Cool, cool, cool.

 

[Frank E]

My favourite observation from the PPP article about this hiring is that Hakstol spent some time with the Swedish national team to learn about their systems and structure. The Leafs have a lot of Swedish defensemen coming through the pipeline (Sandin, Liljegren, Lindgren, Ros?n, Borgman). It is an opportunity to be ahead of the curve as the metagame shifts away from off the glass and out to mobile transition backs.

Cool. Cool, cool, cool.

As it turns out, after spending time with the Swedish National Team, Hakstol doesn't care much for Swedes.

 

[herman]

He also scratched Gostisbehere a handful of times and overplayed Andrew MacDonald.

I honestly don't know what it is about NHL coaches and treating defensemen like MacDonald, Alzner, etc as catnip.

 

[L K]

He also scratched Gostisbehere a handful of times and overplayed Andrew MacDonald.

I honestly don't know what it is about NHL coaches and treating defensemen like MacDonald, Alzner, etc as catnip.

It really is perplexing to me that a guy making a turnover because he tries to make a play is viewed as the inferior player to a guy who just blindly throws the puck to the other team.  I get that defensive zone turnovers are generally going to be tougher to deal with than a neutral zone or offensive zone turnover but there is also a tradeoff on those offensive play turnovers where sometimes those plays pay off whereas the defensive dump turnovers never turn into offensive plays.

 

[herman]

It really is perplexing to me that a guy making a turnover because he tries to make a play is viewed as the inferior player to a guy who just blindly throws the puck to the other team.  I get that defensive zone turnovers are generally going to be tougher to deal with than a neutral zone or offensive zone turnover but there is also a tradeoff on those offensive play turnovers where sometimes those plays pay off whereas the defensive dump turnovers never turn into offensive plays.

There was a fairly longstanding fetishization of safe play. Granted there is a time and place to punt out, but generally, I too like it when our team tries to play good and make points.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

It really is perplexing to me that a guy making a turnover because he tries to make a play is viewed as the inferior player to a guy who just blindly throws the puck to the other team.  I get that defensive zone turnovers are generally going to be tougher to deal with than a neutral zone or offensive zone turnover but there is also a tradeoff on those offensive play turnovers where sometimes those plays pay off whereas the defensive dump turnovers never turn into offensive plays.

I'd be really curious to see how the perception of players would change if historically turnovers were counted as literally all turnovers (including puck dumps on both zone exits and zone entries where the opposing team gets possession of the puck unopposed).

 

[herman]

https://theathletic.com/1125853/2019/08/12/like-going-to-your-dad-what-dave-hakstols-time-in-north-dakota-reveals-about-the-new-leafs-assistant-coach

Dane Jackson played with Hakstol at North Dakota. And after a two-season stint with the AHL?s Manchester Monarchs, Hakstol approached Jackson about joining his staff as an assistant coach. Jackson was impressed with how Hakstol had evolved beyond the defenceman with a few tools and a strong work ethic to now have a ?bigger view of the game.?

?How can we do things differently?? Jackson remembers Hakstol consistently asking his staff.

If an opposing team outperformed North Dakota, Hakstol would meticulously study video to understand how his team was beaten. Practices afterwards would focus on implementing what Hakstol had learned.

 

[herman]

https://theathletic.com/1012839/2019/09/05/the-story-of-paul-mcfarland-the-new-leafs-assistant-coach-who-made-it-home-following-his-dreams/

Jonas Siegel grew up with Paul McFarland so this one has a little extra zhuzh.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

I'm excited to see the impact he'll have on the powerplay. From everything I've read a big part of Florida's success there was because of how active and mobile the entire 5-man unit was. And even during the seasons where Hiller had our powerplay near the top of the league it was pretty static/predictable.

 

[ZBBM]

Kindly take the word "pretty" in your last sentence and replace it with "mind-numbingly."

 

[herman]

Paul McFarland is a huge hockey nerd, so it's very easy to see why Dubas and Babcock were both very excited to hire him.

Over two seasons in Florida, McFarland won rave reviews for his innovative work with the Panthers power play, and rightly so as a once-mediocre unit rocketed up to second-best in hockey last season.

Less known was how doggedly he urged along the skills of players, particularly in the faceoff dot, and most strikingly with franchise cornerstone Aleksander Barkov. Barkov was among the league?s worst in the circle pre-McFarland, winning only 46.5 percent of 1000-plus faceoffs in his fourth NHL season. A year later, with McFarland?s help, he shot up to 53.5 percent ? topping the likes of Sidney Crosby, Matt Duchene and John Tavares ? followed by 53.7 percent last season.

Barkov credits McFarland for the spike, particularly pre-game study sessions on the iPad.

 

[herman]

I'm excited to see the impact he'll have on the powerplay. From everything I've read a big part of Florida's success there was because of how active and mobile the entire 5-man unit was. And even during the seasons where Hiller had our powerplay near the top of the league it was pretty static/predictable.

What made McFarland such an ace there in his direction of the unit, Boughner said, was his careful scrutiny of opposing penalty kills. McFarland would hunt their weakness and then tailor the power play each night to exploit it. ?He?s very good at studying how they?re standing in the neutral zone and studying how they?re killing in-zone,? Boughner explained of a unit that finished second overall at 26.8 percent last year and third in power play goals per 60 minutes.  ?And that?s why we had success on our power play because it wasn?t the same thing every night.?

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