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"Find a soft spot in the interior" is more useful than saying "get to the net". It forces defenders into awkward situations and allows shooters more time and space to elevate pucks. Here are 5 goals involving soft spots from last night with notes.
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The amount of ground Murphy covered here (both on the pick and the return) is insane
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Modern youth sports loves to preach “development.”
But the real product is the illusion of early success.
Give parents just enough gas to keep them believing they’re on the right path.
And more importantly, keep them paying.
But ask, is it “development” or customer retention?
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📺 Analytics = watching the video or don’t trust it.
Spencer Carbery on how he balances advanced analytics with the eye test and why coaches need to look beyond the numbers:
“I think for more times than not, I don't know the exact percentage I would put on it, not to get too technical, but most times they match up. It's like, yeah, that makes sense. But there are times where you're like, ugh, it doesn't feel like that. And then usually that's when you do a deeper dive.
What you have to understand is some of the metrics, so let's just say loose-puck recoveries. Say you're dead last in loose-puck recoveries in the offensive zone. You're like, ooh, that's not very good. We got to recover the puck more in the offensive zone.
So what you can do is now I can go, if I don't really feel that way, I can go see our last 10 games of what they [Sportlogiq] consider a lost loose-puck recovery. So then I can watch them. And sometimes it's like, we had no chance of winning that puck. So that shouldn't be in that category.
But because this is all AI and no one's watching that. So you might go through them and go like, we didn't really lose, because my head goes to we're losing battles on loose pucks. You could watch 100 of them and you're like, 50 of them, we had no chance to win the puck. They just beat us in a race, they had position and they won the puck.
You got to use logic a little bit. I don't overdo it when it comes to the underlying numbers. It's like you can't go crazy and just start going like, this is the gospel, like, this is what we are. You got to take it with a grain of salt and make sure that you're watching.
That's what I've always tried to do, is make sure that I am extremely detailed with what I'm seeing and what I'm cutting and breaking down on the film, and then I can apply the analytics that, that makes perfect sense, because that's exactly what I'm seeing.” #ALLCAPS
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André Tourigny reflects on coaching Nikita Kucherov with the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies during the 2012–13 QMJHL season:
“I won't say any different than what anybody knows about Kuchy. He did not become like that. There's a lot of players where at some point you're 25, 26, 27, 30 years old, and now you understand there's things you need to change. You need to change certain ways you train, or you need to change certain life habits, or whatever.
You can listen to Tom Brady talking and say, ‘Hey, it's later in my career where I figured out my nutrition, or I figured out certain things.’ Kucherov was like that at 19 years old.
He brought a really good culture in our organization because extended time at the rink to work on his body, on his therapy, or he was coming back from a shoulder surgery. A lot of professionalism in the way he prepped. A lot of extended time in the gym, a lot of extended time studying film and stuff like that. So that bled into his teammates, and it was awesome.
And talking with him, I was kind of, okay, it's another level, because when you talk with a junior player, he can be really smart, but he's not as mature in everything. When I talked to Kuchy about games or specific plays or whatever, he knew right away.
He often asked me questions about simple plays. I was kind of, there is not one junior player in 10 years who talked to me about those kinds of things. That's how he was. He's a student of the game.
What you hear about him right now when you talk about how he prepared during the summer, it's exactly the same. I could say stories about him forever, and I had him not that long of a time, but how committed he is at being a hockey player. Kuchy is a hockey player 24/7.” #GoBolts #TusksUp
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Best Team in the NHL so far this season at creating "Net Front" offense 5v5 per @csahockey
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"I believe he is ready to be an NHL goalie, and the only reason he wasn't claimed on waivers is because he is six feet. There is still some height bias among some NHL people. But being ready for the NHL and being the #1 goalie on a team with playoff aspirations are two different things. I don't know if he is ready for that, and I'm interested to see how he does," Woodley on Garand with Rangers. @sports1440
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10 reasons the 4th quarter was a bullshit and not a driver of Nick Saban or Alabama's success:
1. Football is typically 5s of very high intensity effort, followed by 30s of recovery, for ~6 plays. Then you get a long break of several minutes.
That's tough on your alactic and aerobic energy pathways. You train these with very high intensity, short duration efforts and more sustained, lower intensity, easy to recover from efforts respectively.
Training to sustain plays much longer than football, with less rest than football, for much higher volumes than football probably isn't making you better at football. That would be like running repeat 800s if your goal is to win the 100m.
Will you occasionally have to prepare for worst case scenarios like back to back 3 and outs? Or goal line to goal line drives? Yes, but there's been one 20 play drive in the NFL this century.
The more you prepare for a worst case scenario that simply won't occur, the more you detract from a typical case scenario that WILL occur.
Do you always need to train in a highly specific fashion that looks like the sport to improve performance? No, but living in the middle zone of intensity detracts form the development of the other 2 systems and should be limited to a few weeks per year, not several months of off-season which is your best opportunity to develop underlying physical qualities.
Want proof it can be done? @MattRheaPhD is on record saying there's basically zero conditioning component to football (not sure I would go that far but anyway) and he was part of the undefeated national championship staff.... AT ALABAMA. The common denominator is everything else that made them a great organisation (chiefly the coach, staff, roster and money).