But while systems protect and enhance teams, they do not win championships. Players win championships.
Jacques Lemaire was both renowned and reviled around the league for installing the neutral-zone trap when he was hired by the Devils as head coach in 1993. They went to town on it, extending the Rangers to seven games in the epochal 1994 Eastern Conference final that stands as arguably the greatest playoff series in NHL history. A year later, the Devils rode the trap to the Cup.
Systems are necessary. Adjustments are necessary. Structure is a requirement. But it is still the players who determine the outcome. At some point — and probably much sooner than later — outside fascination with Laviolette’s system will fade. And attention will be directed, as always, on the players.at the Garden, in which the home boys were a step and a thought slow pretty much from start to finish and lacked the battle level to overcome their sloth.
From Laviolette’s perspective, the most egregious of the numerous flaws on display was his team’s unsatisfactory compete standard. There is never an excuse for that. That’s why this one stung far more than“We had the same problem in Columbus where we gave up too much but in Columbus we competed hard,” Laviolette said. “We attacked the net hard.Artemi Panarin and the Rangers dropped to 2-2 through their first four games after a loss to the Predators.
By the way, the answer to the question of who is having a more difficult start to the season, Miller or Braden Schneider, is C: Both of the above.
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