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  1. Not goaltending. Their defensive play has been particularly poor:
  2. Boudreau had 2 units that he played pretty much equally in Minnesota. He mostly went by lines and used 2 Ds - unlikely to be 2 Ds here but it's still by lines. Podkolzin-Garland-Pettersson are a line at 5v5 and are on the same unit. Boeser-Miller another line + Pearson-Horvat also a line
  3. That was a misunderstanding. Him and Miller talked it out and Drance apologised for not grasping the situation. Wasn't anything negative but a new fun drill that they had never done before and the atmosphere that day was fun and relaxed.
  4. Played 77 of 90 possible games for Boudreau - from the time he was traded to Minnesota and Boudreau was dismissed. Pateryn was injured for a stretch and his main competition for that 6th spot was Nick Seeler.
  5. Should be. He's already in Vancouver. Will also meet with media later today.
  6. He was on Vigneault' staff and Fletcher has history with him from their time in Minnesota. Sounds like an interim.
  7. They apparently got clearance to talk to him a while back but Benning wasn't allowed to make a coaching change. Dreger believes he would have if he had the authority.
  8. Boudreau coached the PP in Minnesota. He liked having 2 units and even claimed that staying more than 1 minute on the ice is selfish. In Minnesota he had the Staal and Koivu units and would equally start either. He actually talks in this podcast in detail about his powerplay philosophy and how he likes to set up based on the type of personnel available. He also reminisces about his PP in Washington. It's quite a detailed and technical discussion. At the very start at the podcast:
  9. Need shot blocking Ds for the PK. Hansen was complaining that they never replaced Tanev/Edler on the PK and that shots are going through.
  10. The Natural Stat Trick model has the ice tilted in favour of the opponent with him on the ice at 5v5 with a 41% expected goal for percentage. Counting stats is not the most reliable way to look at defensive reliability. Goaltending factors strongly in counting stats and Demko has been standing on his head. Playing against McDavid who is a threat to score every shift is not the same as shutting down a line that hardly ever scores. Counting stats for the latter might be better but hard to conclude that the D playing against that non scoring line is better defensively than the one trusted against some of the biggest offensive threats. Similar extension to teams who can seemingly score at will vs teams who struggles to finish.
  11. Drance polled some executives and pro-scouts recently - they like that OEL has rebounded but still have him as a negative value contract because of the cap hit and length. Myers and Poolman also fall in the negative value contracts according to the group polled.
  12. Sounds temporary when they write "search for new leadership is underway".
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