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Morreale has done excellent work with the CEBL. He'd be a good hire.

What's that mean?

It’s the Winnipeg Jets way 😛

Connor sure looked unhappy. He barely smiled even when he received his gold medal. When he did it was more polite than anything. Not much clapping either for his teammates when they got their medals. He looked more Canadian with the disappointment written all over their faces then a guy that was a part of a gold medal team. You could see he was like a window shopper looking in from the outside. His face & mannerisms said it all.

We know how the CFL does its business. By publicly saying he wants to work for the CFL in any capacity, the BOG's will take that as a threat. So, Morreale just poisoned any chance for him to work in the CFL Head Office. That's how this league works.

He still received a gold medal?

Who? Sorry I was speaking figuratively as a member of the USA hockey program 😏😛

Not sure KC played much.

I was like "you're actually not going to score here..."

I knew that when we blew that 5 on 3 that the hockey gods were not going to smile favorably.

Yep. I love what jy and hall, but that is pretty much the only stretch of time we had that consistent disruption/pressure. Haven’t had great personnel on the dl over that time, but we also haven’t developed or made use of guys in that time. I hope hall and thomas focus on the dl and disruption while jy runs coverage. we’ve seen hall run some brilliant front concepts when he’s had the horses.

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Literally left them crying.

And KConn

That's what they did in 2019 & 2021. Base D with a ferocious front 4 applied pressure. Then you add Biggie & the pass D & that's why we gave up just 181 points in 14 games in 2019. Ritchie Hall's D killed other teams.

At least we can be happy for Helle.

Every year is the worst year to lose to the States actually 😉

That's a tough loss, but you have got to be able to score on a 5 on 3 with all that offensive talent - it shouldn't matter who's in net.

Have to agree.

3 on 3 arcade hockey for an Olympic gold is the dumbest thing ever

Ugh this is the worst year for Canada to lose to the States...

Huge kidney punch having him come on to the panel to try to normalize his behaviour and then panning on him watching the gold medal game.

disruption with 3-4 and pressure with 4 occasionally 5 is best. It leaves you with the most options. No answer with blocking for the blitz. The way to beat the blitz is to attack the cushion. on either side 2/3 targets, you will have only 1-2 dbs on the line usually 1. So you have one guy clear out and throw to the under route. If it’s your 3 man side you have the 2 under guys force the nearest defender to jump one. If the cover all play up on the line you bust them off the line and take it deep on a timing route. That’s how dons D was beaten. Teams stopped trying to out block them, and started using the spread to get the ball out quick. The counter for coverage, is to show and drop guys, rotating coverage showing man and dropping into zone, generally forcing the qb to change his read at every point possible. If you take away the qbs ability to rely on his pre snap read, you make it very hard to run the quick game and beat the rush. After that, the best option is to move the pocket a lot. Drastic line shifts, slide protection, half and full roll outs etc. It is very hard to effectively rush the qb, when you don’t know where he’s going to set up. Some people get caught up with play action, but that just slows the process of getting the ball out and setting up protection with the back. Jet/fly/rocket/orbit motion packs on the other hand can be effective at beating the rush but it requires a very specific threat to work. If you can disrupt and pressure with your base though, it’s extremely hard to beat that with X’s and o’s.

Congrats Connor Hellebuyck, without you the USA doesn’t get a sniff of that Gold medal 👍🏻 BTW, are we going to start calling him Connor McLoser?