Mike Johnson

Like a pass in the skate should not be a three-on-one.

A pass in the skate should be a three-on-three.

This is like you move things around in this way.

The stretch pass chip in for a four-check,

does not work when the guy chasing for the forecheck is 30 feet back and he's not that fast.

That doesn't seem like a good system to execute all the time because the guys you have doing it, despite them trying to get there as fast as they can, they can't get there as fast as they can.

These kind of things that I watch when I watch the Leafs feels like they should clean up and tweak what they are trying to do.

And I'm not... Again, they have a plan.

They won a lot with that plan last year.

But again, I just...

they play slower in a league that's getting faster.

And you can be kind of slower skaters and still play a fast game, but they're not.

And that's what I would be trying to work on both with the players but also with the system to make it that they are able to play faster even if they don't skate faster.

Well, Florida, Florida is a team that everyone's emulating.

They are a dump and chase team.

But when you look into the stats, whatever the amount of 20 plus mile an hour burst in a game, they're in the top 10.

They find a way within the construct of their sort of dump and chase system to still have moments of speed in the system.

Yeah.

That's what the Leafs have to try to get to.

So you can play dump and chase and play fast.