Steve Valiquette

You know, I don't disagree.

I think that

You know, I went over Jerry's video and here's what I see.

And sometimes a coach has a message like that because there may be, they've had it up to here and they're a little bit pissed off too.

And why do I say that?

Because it doesn't look like he's competing at a high level.

The puck is moving around at the blue line, the ISO camera that's behind the goaltenders net.

you can just watch his feet not track passes when it's moving up at the blue line.

He is, in fact, Ottinger's doing the same thing.

They're gliding backwards as the puck is moving laterally, and right before shots are being taken, they're just not lined up with the toe caps of their skates wrapped around the puck.

They're late, but they're late because...

of effort.

I think that I didn't learn this lesson until I was 18 years old, and it was from Francois Allaire, who famously coached Patrick Waugh.

I was staying at his house with Zach Burke, and he said, the harder you work before the shot, the easier the shot's going to be.

And that changed everything for me.

I went back to the Sudbury Wolves, and I finally outworked and out-competed the puck's pace.

And when you do that, the game starts to feel stationary.

But for Jari, the game is always moving right now at a pace faster than him because he's off angle to start the sequence.

Here's the thing, guys.

When you start any sequence, whether it's in your defensive zone coverage or off the rush and you're not on true angle, you never regain angle.