moma2s NewAge Hockey System

Their d-men are positioning themselves up high right under their blueline when you are challenging the zone. They are also gapped to tightly,so simply cross over on them as you enter the zone.

Just ask everyone to tag up on guys in their own zone already,dont really try to hit them but jeeprs at least touch them and say "You are it!!" this is sad,no one is home in the Wheelhouse baby.


Another failure to use the Stand-up defense is now a firing offense to me,this coaching is so derelict it is not acceptable anymore.

Dallas,you and the fellas are FIRED.

When the Equipment men and the janitors get to the bench have them use a Stand-up physical defense at our blue-line stepping into the n-zone when it is clear,combine this with a 3 man forecheck that keeps the men staggered so they arent getting in to deep laterally ,make sure they are staggered through the o-zone on the forecheck because they will be executing an extended backcheck with hard skating because they will be catching the puck right at their blueline when the Stand-up checks break them loose.

So let the Stand-ins know it is a 3 man staggered forecheck focused on a quick and extended backcheck coming back into a Stand-up defense ,the game will be played between the bluelines where we are stronger than they are.We will use quickstrike offense by turning the pucks around immediatly after regaining possesion,no extended set ups,no involving the d-men and screwing with the momentum giving the opposition time to re-set,just a hard forechecking game with powerfull n-zone pressure supported with a standu- defense,The forwards must be coming back hard and fast on the backcheck and PLAN on extending it right into their own zones because they will be expected to take the pucks immediatly very high in the zone around or at the blueline and immediatly turn it around,the d-men dont want to handle the puck unless they have to,the forwards will be responsible for exiting the d-zone as many times as they can manage it.NO LONG TIME WASTING PLAYACTION RE-SETS WITH ALL OF THE PASSING BACK INTO YOUR OWN ZONE----EVERYTHING MOVES FORWARD NOW,as soon as possesion is gained it is spin and sprint,keep the tempo high the hard forecheck and hard backcheck will tuen this into a fitness test where we will do better than they will.This System set-up will play into our strengths and run them down.

If you dont use the Stand-up defense the other two components will not work together seamlessly,it seems like the 3rd step is the one that trips you fellas up,or someone is just stubborn to the degree it screws you all.


And the 2 man forecheck is better than what you were doing but had you been sending in 3 the way I said you would have scored already,the 3rd man hanging 3ft inside the blueline would have already picked two cherries at least.

Nice consistancy there boys,end the year the same way you started it,discombobulated.


Another goal caused by the collapsing defense, whoever doesnt understand how to run a Stand-up defense has to go man,this is not funny,this is a Home game at the end of a horrible season.

What would happen if you said everyone was greenlighted to go on offense,would it look any different out there,should we pull the goalie early in the 3rd to give ourselves a chance here or what?

Unfortunately you cannot even communicate wel enough to get the job done when someone else does the heavy lifting for you,you have the template for defeating this team right in front of you here,but someone refuses to adjust the defense and they half-arsed adjusted the forecheck,this is just not good enough.

Remember the fans paid to see this tonight.

For the record it was this collapse defense that exposed Dubnyk and it is now beginning to expose the tenders we have.You HAVE to present a barrier at your own blueline,you CANNOT allow snowflake zone entrys in the NHL and the coaches need to set up a System that allows this team to use the Stand-up defense or the future looks very bleak.

In the NHL letting a player ten feet into your zone puts him in terminal scoring position,and this has burned this team all season long.

By the way the 2 man forecheck you decided to use instead of the 3 man buried you tonight,sending 2 men in laterally strong breaks pucks loose but there is no suppport to pick them up,it simply delays the game it doesnt turn the playaction around.


Go ahead and keep using this collapse defense and this half-hearted forecheck,I am used to watching teams walk into our zone and light up our goaltenders,it is par for the course.

Maybe Dallas can explain why it is a better idea to let opponents enter your d-zone unattended in free-flow,maybe he can tell us all how bad an idea it is to stand opponents up at that same blueline.

This team is conditioned to be beat on,it is conditioned to take shots to the head,there is never going to be a winning dynamic maintained with this anemic offense and comfort zone with being beaten down.


Now I can listen to the retards on the panel between periods ripping the roster apart,Dallas you do realise that these idiots dont understand enough to see what you ARENT DOING.

Yes thats what I want to hear to end the year ,constant criticism of klefbom and marincin CAUSED by the coaches asking them to play an ineffective collapse defense.

At least let the kids use a simple Stand-up defense,ask more of the forwards on the forecheck and backchecking,keep the shifts short.

After an entire year of watching this type of garbage all I want to do is fight it out and get rid of the things causing this mess,and that means an inhouse fight,there is no external way to solve this issue,none,this is a homeboy shakedown man,something has to give here,this has been a real downer.

No one can burn your d-man if he is getting tatoed in the middle of his chest and stood up . If you are simply going for the Stand-up check all the way it is fool-proof,as long as your forwards are backchecking hard for you.

I am signing off,surprise me with the 3rd period ok?

Stagger the forecheckers,dont let them all go to the boards so deep,you need to keep them staggered so you can backcheck properly,if they are all to deep all you will be doing is chasing the puck carrier.

And the back pressure is what allows the stand-up to work so you need to isolate the puck carrier ASAP.The 2 men going in do that and the 3rd man has to be ON THAT PUCK CARRIER ALL THE WAY BACK,the 2 men who pressure hard still need to boot scoot back,but that 3rd man is key,he needs to be the one to apply immediate pressure to the puck carrier if they get past the 2 man pressure deep,this 3rd man is the hammer and the Stand-up defense is the Anvil.That 3rd man is the hammer and he has to be on the puck coming back no matter what,he has to decide when to go after those loose pucks but always be in a position to cut the puck carrier down and push him into the Satand-up defense ASAP.

Send 2 men in on the forecheck deep and have the 3rd man six feet into their zone hovering or skating laterally looking for loose pucks to drive immediatly to the net.Take everything you break loose to the net immediatly

Remember the 2 men in hard and first only need to float pucks out to the middle and we should have a Vulture ready to come in hard on those loose pucks,they arent really trying to get pure possesion all the time,they need to remember take the puck carrier fast and hard and to pop it out between their legs to the middle for their 3rd man.

To little to late fellas.

I saw the adjustments clearly but they were not done together,they were done in steps that were discombobulated.

Dont you understand yet? It is the read and reacts that are killing you,you are simply to slow on the draw getting the right System focus or dialing in.It doesnt matter how you start as long as you can adjust within a few shifts to what the opponent is doing.

I think your System decisions suck,but I still give you data to optimise exactly what you are trying to do,and what do you do??? You play games again,and refuse to make the correct adjustments in the proper manner.

There is no way this is an NHL Coaching crew,and I do not care how many NHL insiders say that the team shouldnt change Coaches again,this entire group needs to go,there is no way possible they can be this derelict.


At this point I would even settle for running off everyone but Eakins ,his assistants and his Captainand henchman can all go and Dallas can live another day,but there is NO WAY THIS IS AN NHL COACHING CREW.

When you make the adjustments I post in this fashion you submarine them you destroy the impacts if you break them all up and try institutung them one at a time in a staggered sequence,this is either intentional or this is the least able Coaching crew this team has ever seen.

If it is intentional it isnt working,anyone can see you arent doing things in the proper sequence,so you are not discrediting the data by using half-measures.


If Mac-T can sit up in the box and read my data and not think my read and reacts are better than his Coaching crews than he has forgotten an entire career of NHL level hockey somehow.

When I see players making the adjustments I suggest out there I can tell exactly how much data the coaches are using,I can tell if they ask the players to do everything required or if they only ask for partial data to be used ,I can see every tiny adjustment immediatly and I understand how the players are trying to make what the coach asks for happen,the read and react talent works both ways,I can self-asses as easily as I can tacticlly read the opponent,using the same program.

The Coaches are not able to put the package together and I see a lot of players making the correct adjustments they are asked to do even if they are PARTIAL,so you see I know it isnt the players at fault here.


The men arent making personal individual errors,the system is full of holes and the coaches cannot adjust it properly.



I do not blame the d-men if the System is designed to allow easy snowflake zone entrys and they are asked to collapse backwards into their own net on every playaction.


I do not blame the forwards if the System asks them to forecheck deep and hard and the quickly backcheck but has no provision to slow the playaction down at their blueline whatsoever,without that influence NO FORWARDS WILL BE EFFECTIVE,they cannot skate 200 feet and be expected to be on top of the playaction on time,they need help.

I do not blame the Goaltender if the System allows free-flow zone entrys and he gets lit up by NHL caliber shooters.

I cannot blame the d-men if the System asks them to collapse backwards in their own zone and expose themselves to the offense and experience of opposition forwards.


There has been a clear disconnect between all of the Coaches,the defense and offense cannot work together,they cannot adjust together,they cannot even put together the simple gameplan I gave them here.


I just dont know what else to say,I cannot believe it but I am a better coaching influence than the Pros are,it is what it is,sometimes life is strange isnt it?


No I dont expect the current managment to sort this out and god knows what is going to happen in this situation.

This organisation is facing the same issue going into next season that has haunted and destroyed it for many years,it lacks an NHL level System with enough offense to optimise the assets the team has on board.

You do not solve an issue of having a long Peter by chopping a few inches off man you change your style,and you dont solve the problem
of an offensively loaded roster by cutting out offense,you change your style man.

This is NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.

This roster has NEVER BEEN GIVEN A PROPERLY SUITED MANAGMENT GROUP WITH THE OFFENSIVE ACUMEN AND ABILITY TO MENTOR AND TEACH THEM THE NHL GAME.

The managment group the team has now could be collectively retained to mentor the incoming d-men but nothing more,they are offensively handicapped and it is killing the franchise.

Keep this up long enough and you will start listening to other NHL idiots telling you to stick with the coach and trade core players away.

This managment group was never designed to handle this type of skill and talent,and to be fair no one knew what we had coming down the pipes ,when K-Lowe was innaugurated things were very very different,same with Mac-T and the rest of the Coaches.


There is no way anyone can claim that this stable of young talent has been given EVEN HALF of a chance to become the best players they can be in the NHL with the Managment group they have had handeling them all.NO WAY NO HOW.

Ferraro can bite me and so can all of the other morons I have to listen to make derogatory comments about the Oilers.

The players need an offensively focused system,that incorporates the proper 20 foot game,this means the proper forechecking and the proper n-zone coverage and the proper backchecking tactics and the proper defensive zone tactics combined the right and proper ways,this is a COACHING ISSUE when these things cannot be done ,NOT A PLAYER ISSUE.


If the Coaches are able and the System sucks then say so and change it,if the System is fine and the Coaches suck then say so and change it but for gods sakes dont sink to the lowest of lows and blame the footsoldiers,that is just cowardly.


If the Coaches say the System is better than the players then fire the Coaches because they arent getting the job done they are using an unsuitable system.

If the Coaches say the players will not do as they are asked then change the Coaches because they cannot get their jobs done and communicate with the Players.

If the G.M cannot properly and accurately valuate what is wrong with his team when the Coaches,System and Players arent in sync then fire the G.M and find one who can get the job done.

If the POHO has his fingers in the System-pie in cahoots with the G.M and the Coaches then FIRE THEM ALL because they still arent getting the job done.


DO NOT SACRIFICE MORE PLAYERS TO THIS DYSFUNCTIONAL MESS.

I dont think there is a sound enough understanding of this team and its needs at a fundamental level which would allow proper player transaction decisions to be made or proper draft calls to be made next season that is how bad things are now.

We need to get the right men on the job ASAP so we dont make even worse decisions next season.Both in trades and in the draft.


No one in Managment has the offensive perspective required to support this core of Players,it is obvious that decisions have already been made to blow the core up,there is now way it can stay together with this managment group who need to do everything defensively,no way at all.

Blow up this core to keep managment and you blow up a once in 30 years opportunnity to create and maintain a Dynasty level team.

Do the math, 8 years of losing requires 8 years of winning to break even,even if the curent roster makes an 8 year playoff run the damages will not be repaired,so you see this managment group needs to go now,there is no time to fix the level of carnage we see that history has recorded,it is time to cut some losses.Gagner is 24 -- he will be 32 when this managment team regains its pride,jesus.Taylor Hall will be 30!!!

And the scary reality is that neither of these men will likely last two more years here without massive managment changes that bring in the offensive acumen and experience to properly mentor them,even Sam Gagner who is only 24 years old and by some teams system standards would only now be a regular NHL roster player has NEVER HAD AN OFFENSIVE COACH in all the years he has played here,and he was a standout offensive player to begin with.At 24 years old with the right coaches he himself could have what would be considered a breakout year,we havent even seen the top end of gagners potential.And idiots talk of trading himwhen he should be wearing the Captains letter he has already earned.The guy is a gem and gets no respect or support.Yakupov is a 40 goal NHL scorer on ANY team EXCEPT an Oilers team,now that is a crime for christs sakes,a crime by any standards.There is no one within managment who can understand any of the core players this team has,no one.It is the saddest thing I could have ever imagined happening to such a once-in-a-lifetime group of young men.






You see the credit line has been long overdrawn here and it is time to close the accounts.

This has been a case of an underprepared and outgunned managment group who was originally retained for their defensive acumen and ability being retained to long being given a chance to handle a once-in-a-lifetime core group of offensive 1st overall picks,this has been one of the worst Hockey managerial mess in the History of the game and it could one day be worse than the Quebec fiasco.

Ideally a properly prepared and able group of offensively focused and experienced men would have been brought in 3 years ago to begin mentoring this talented group on how to optimise their natural skillsets in the NHL.

No Dorothy ,we are not in Kansas any more,and no sweetheart Defensive specialists CANNOT optimally mentor elite offensive players,EVER.Effort doesnt count in pro sports,results do.

Ryan Alexander Gordon Smyth....... whenever I think of you in an Oilers uniform I will be caught half-way between Thank You and Goodbye.

So for tonight Ryan Thank you and Goodbye.


Mr.Smyths Jersey is a real and Tangible connection between todays youth and yesterdays heros,he is a connection that is special and one which deserves to be respected that way,Ryans Jersey NEEDS to go up into those rafters BEFORE game one next season.These young men need to be able to look up there when the going is at its roughest and know where they can find inspiration and help.They will always be able to connect to the man they played on the ice with in those moments and lean on him when they need him.

Ryan Smyth is a Transition point for the entire Organisation,his retirement is solidifying in our minds as Fans that a new Era is finally here.There is no denying now the ownership of the History and Pride of the Edmonton Oilers has been handed off,the torch is now in the hands of the young Warrios Ryan has mentored.It is in good hands.

Ryan you started your Pro Hockey career as a Moose Jaw Warrior and you are ending it as an Edmonton Oilers Warrior,you have stayed true to your roots and to yourself as a man.be Proud tonight man,be very very proud,and know that that is exactly what each and every Fan of the Oilers will be feeling.


Have fun out there tonight Ryan and be Proud,very very proud of what you have accomplished and for what you have given to multiple generations of Oilers Fans,we will all be watching with Pride in our hearts and lumps in out throats.




Tip to the PP Unit,Ryan gets the inside position consistantly,so bring the puck to him from behind the net,dont look for shots from the outside,if you do make them hard passes two feet to the side of the net that are either picked up behind the net or are bounced back out to the front,not 100mph slappers,hard shot/passes into that open seam just to get the puck behind the net ASAP,then whoever catches it back there simply needs to funnel it to the net front,but put a man back there so Ryan doesnt have to dig behind the net,let someone else dig the puck out,and make the passes ASAP anyways because Ryan is ALWAYS in position early,dont hesitate,just get it back there and immediatly pop it to the net front,Ryan will do the rest,dont look for things just get the pucks there ASAP because Ryans reflexes and reaction time is superior,he will pick up bobeling pucks before anyone else will,so give him those bobbeling pucks,and do it by not thinking,just get jit behind the net and pop it out ASAP.Look for his center of body mass and flip some of the passes soft and high into his body,he is always on the inside so you know where those pucks will be going.The opposition knows what we are doing so just be faster than them getting pucks to the front of the net.

For the forwards tonight and for the rushing d-men,extended possesions carried the olde fashioned way draw more penaltys so maybe take the scenic route more tonight and come swooping in telegraphing your path so they have to reach out for you and drag you down,less direct net drives originating from the middle where the penaltys are hard to see and more swooping drives from the outside where the d-men have to get their hands dirty.Lets see those winger driving the puck wide as they enter the o-zone and then ala Glen Anderson DRIVE IT INTO THE LANE AND TO THE NET.Get those d-men isolated and in 1 on 1 situations.Make the n-zone transition passes from the middle of the zone so your forwards recieve the pucks in stride just as they hit the blueline,make the d-men back in by holding the middle of the n-zone early,then hit the winger coming in with speed,if they try to use a stand-up defense to stop you by timing the hits to cream the wingers then simply have the man making the pass from the middle of the n-zone,and I mean laterally when I say middle, have this passer make hard passes that hit the boards two feet into the o-zone and ricochett the puck behind the d-man,so when he bites on the winger he can be sidestepped and the winger will be getting the puck in the middle and behind the overcommitted d-men.The angle the middle man will be passing from if he times it right will be perfect to bank the puck off the boards and have it come out exactly where you want it.so run it in high speed enough for the d-men to build a habit say 3-4 times and THEN slow the winger entry down to time it with the pass and bank it off the boards in behind the defense,THEN go back and forth one for one with the full speed wide drives and the slower half-speed entry using the bank pass off the boards.The secondary benefit of this play is that the passer follows up his own bank off the boards in case the winger misses it and when he cuts over to do this he forces the defense to collapse with him and this congests that area with players and makes one d-man go flatfooted and forces two defenders to communicate well of get burned,you will find that with the bank pass exactly where I said to put it,the winger if the pass doesnt angle right will still beat the defense to the puck it will turn into short dump-in and the winger will have a speed advantage , odds are with our quick players that this will be a deadly tactic,as long as everyone who isnt driving wide and hard SHOOTS ASAP from everywhere.


The more lateral you keep the o-zone entrys the better for this play,keep the defense spread out wide and alternate your n-zone transition speeds,keeping the d-men wide is citical because remember you are trying to force them to collapse together as you look for communicatiion breakdowns and errors to come from them.Do not try to combine a penetrating Verticle rush tactic with this because it will not work like that.Only use this tactic if you are using a wide and laterally strong o-zone entry that spreads out their defense.

I would like to see David perron taking the puck in from the outside with speed and his arm out pushing the defender to the inside like Anderson used to,I know David is smaller but he is truculent,just ask him to lean on the defense with his speed from the outside tonight instead of taking the middle lane looking for the quick release shots.Perron has exceptional hands in close and we need a winger who can push the defense WIDE more to support Gagner and Yakupov on the 2nd line next season,if perron can do this he is the right man on the 2nd line.I know this isnt his usual tactic and is out of his comfort zone but I think he will score a goal or two if he uses this tactic tonight,and he will create a lot of room in the o-zone for his teammates if he does this.He must have good speed exiting the n-zone and he must be exiting from the middle to the boards when he leaves the n-zone,so cross him over as he exits the d-zone so he transits the n-zone hitting the corner just in time for the pass from the middle man in the n-zone.


So essentially have the forward wingers cross over exactly as the hit their own blueline,early, and aim them for the far corners of the oppositions blueline so they hit the line in perfect position with the defense completely spread out and exposed.Do not start cross the wingers over IN the n-zone,that is a fraction to late,have them start at the corner of their own blueline and cross them over with those corners as their starting points and have them traverse the n-zone diagonally so they both hit the far corners of the opposition blueline at the same times.

You have been learning to shorten the rink using the stand-up defense [even though the coaches hate it] and the 3 man forecheck with a hard extended back-check,this is a Verticle focus,now why not try to spread things out wide and use a lateral or horizontal focus,just DONT USE THE STAND-UP with this lateral focus,keep starting the games like you have been defensively,I am assuming you will NOT be using a Stand-up defense tonight and am giving these tactics as per your normal game plan focus,which is NOT stand-up,dont go all stand-up on me now,because todays tactics are to be used with the half-arsed collapse defense you have been insisting on using,I am trying to help you be you this time man.

DONT try bringing your wingers up this way if you use a stand-up defense.They will be backchecking to hard to get fancy.

Might as well try to score on the PK ,obviously by the number of shortys we gave up this season other teams are doing just this,so why not try to be like them tonight.Collapsing everyone onto the tender is nothing but trouble,refs are seeing us do it and soon they will stop calling penaltys for us because they will consider it to be our own fault.We have been using this collapse in our own net tactic to much and it is a bad habit we will get punished for next season,when the Refs see your entire line dumping themselves on top of their own crease they cannot make clear calls on the opposition.The collapse defense is questionable for a lot of reasons and this is a big one.
The reason we see virtually no offense from the PK unit is because of this collapse mentality,it is cheating and it is a bad habit,it needs to be addressed now because it will burn us next season.Instead of moving bodies out of the crease we are bringing more in,this stunts our d-mens development and discourages them from physiclly clearing those areas and keeping them clear for the tender it is regressive,sooner or later we will take out our own tender doing this,and it only makes the Refs job harder when all of those bodies are in there at one time.

I think it is time to turn the page and make an image upgrade that is more in tune with the times.

Lets come out tonight with a new Battle Song blaring into rexall,it is time for a change,whoever is in charge of this aspect of the team might want to get a copy of The Prodigy singing Spitfire and have the team come out to this one,and also use cuts of it after goals to pump everyone up and to remind opponents just what it is we are bringing to them.

Close your eyes put the song on and imagine you are an Oilers fan sitting in the dark waiting for the team to come out on the ice and the speakers come on full blast to the opening of this song Spitfire,just close your eyes and imagine the energy that will be building up in the building,Fans and Players!!!! This song is a perfect fit for this version of the Oilers, it is young and full of energy.And it is sure to impact opponents,to set the tone we are trying to set from the get-go.

Make it a Request for Smytty,he is a Warrior who battles like the men from WW2 and he has put up Spitfire type of numbers in his career.

Call it an experiment for everyone to learn from ,just to see how important this simple part of the Teams structure and focus can be,Methinks the impact will be huge and the young Bucks will be PUMPED,especially if it catches them by surprise,they will feed off of the energy that will be buzzing when they come out of the Hallway and onto the ice.

If you really want to pass the torch the way the NHS believes it should be handed over,then get a few of the Minions at rexall to drag in a 40 inch monitor with a video from Y-tube titled Pillar-For the Love of the Game Lyrics -- by PillarLyrics.

Get the fellas to all sit down and watch the Video together,it is basic,black and white,no crap just the words to the song so everyone can understand the message and feel how well it fits the moment.Just a perfect conduit to deliver a hard to verbalise message through a song in a way everyone will understand together.It is worth the effort,so make sure you tell the Minions to do a dry run with the Monitor and video so there are no hiccups,insist they do a dry one by nicely including it clearly the 1st time you tell them what to do.

The key to this impact is to multiply it by playing For the Love of the Game FIRST for everyone and then exiting the room to Spitfire.,it is called emotional compound interest and is a good habit to get into applying.

I think Pillar might be a Christian band, that peripheral and has nothing to do with the choice,it is just the perfect message at a perfect time and place.



Rivalries are built on emotions,the Nucks have been kicked in the Crown Royal Bags as hard as the Oilers have,so tonight will be a venting experience,I believe we can get one more serious rise out of Torterella this season,and he is ready to freaking ha ha ha erupt.....


Lets use our newfound teeth, our tougher roster to pound sand up their tailpipes from the first minute till the last minute,come out playing Spitfire to pump the crowd like we havent seen in eons,then give Smytty his ceremony and simply roll that emotion back into our favor in the crowd by going back to Spitfire after the ceremony.

I just cannot imagine Torts face if we light them up and he has to listen to cuts of Spitfire after every goal,there are some perfect verses in there that will drive him off the edge,ha ha ha,never mind the fights that are sure to happen tonight,imagine him turning purple and losing it after he gets a few goals scored on him and is primed and then has his players arse kicked in a fight and then has to listen to Spitfire again rubbing the salt in even deeper beyond his capacity to handle it all.HA HA HA HA. Sometimes when you want a rivalry you need to start a fight,its time for the Oilers to turn the page on the Nucks,coming out to Spitfire and backing the song up like they back up the Oildrop will turn the page for sure.


As strange and odd as it may sound,this is poetic justice,because playing the Nucks and Torts was one of the key points in our tailspin this season,this is a Platinum opportunitty to set a new long-term trend,one that says the Oilers are going to crush the Nucks totally every time they play,physiclly and offensively,now that the Nucks are down they need to know we are planning on being merciless.

This game is the most important unbelievably to the two Head Coaches,Eakins and Torterella,both have had struggles this season and both are fighters who NEVER GIVE AN INCH WITHOUT A FIGHT,they are both like luke-warm Powder Kegs,just looking for reasons to explode.


I myself believe that your last finish is how you can expect your next start to be unless you make changes,so tonights game will be to me a Crystal Ball to read next seasons expectations in a lot of areas.The men who can finish this season lile pros and put in their best efforts will surely be the men able to provide consistant efforts for the team next season,these are in fact dire times and the cream will be forced to the top tonight in many many ways.After what this team has gone through they are in Shell-shock,but I am not,I understand what has happened and i am confident that it has made this group from Coaches to players stronger,this isnt an alalysis it is a statement of fact,these men need to finish hard and honestly because right now they have no idea that they will likely never revisit these deep waters again in their careers,they cannot properly valuate the true fires they have all been through this season quite yet,that will come later.

This is the seasons Exit Game,the NHS says that for as much as you need to bring everything to the first game of the season ,the Entry Game,you must leave 100% of the season behind you after the Exit Game,this is critical to the teams health and well being and evolution.

If they wont play Spitfire for the Fans then play it in the dressing room,trust me it will have an impact,it will give the men something different to take away with them into the off-season,and Smytty will love it if he hears this type of music ,it will help him understand how things are the way they are suppossed to be. Make it so..

Tell Nuge to use a faceoff move that allows him to spin himself around and lean into his opponent immediatly,he needs to close the distance between bodies more,so someone advise him of a solid move that allows him to spin immediatly and then back into his man,maybe picking the puck up between his own legs,or simply blocking out the opponent and driving him back hard as he turns,picking him out of the play back to chest and driving his legs hard as he leans in.

Try to get more shots on net this goalies is overwhelmed already,you have started a hairline crack so now hammer lots of rubber at him from all over the zone,not just long bombs,shoot from everywhere.

Stop putting the puck low on the PP,knock one in off of Smyttys body,get those pucks lobbed in there nicely for him,bank er in ASAP,And ask Smytty to NOT chase the pucks behind the net,put support there and keep him in front planted,then play banks off of his body,just pass it around the perimeter of the net until you get a bank shot and that means you can shoot from anywhere,you dont need the usual shooting lanes,only look for the bank shots knees to shoulders.

2013-2014 Season Valuation w/ Future Projection 2014-2015


- Coaching
- Players
- Managment
- Media
- Fanbase
- NHL Officiating
- NHL Managment


Dallas Eakins / + Assts. No distinction in valuation of individual assets / overall impact valuation


Grade C-

- This group had a solid and undertood gameplan to start the season, one baased off of mainly statistical valuations available to Eakins as he had no hands on experience with the men.The Assts. had workable in depth knowledge of the players and were the primary source of the Head Coaches individual player database.How well Dallas understood and applied each individual asset as per their individual strengths both physiclly and personality wise was directly reflective of the degrees of impact these Asst. and their inputs were during the different phases of the season.

The Institution of Systems and their structures was Dallases job, the Assts. were required to provide a seamless execution of Special Teams keeping the tactical focus within the realm of the overall System directive ,and with supporting both the Defensive and Offensive components of the Coach chosen System Presentation or varient thereof.


Dallas was a Rookie NHL Head Coach who was essentially immediatly dragged into Deep Waters and never allowed to thrash his way to shallow water long enough to regain enough energy to make an offensive puchback of his own.The valuation of the Overall Coaching impact
considers Dallases optimal impact potential on its own merits and aligns this potential with the paralell and identiclly valuated Asst. Coaches projected and expected potential and optimal impacts.The Primary question being -- exactly how far should the team have fallen before the combined acumens of these Assets on own combined merits slowed the backwards momentum down to a manageable degree?To what degree above the optimal potential impact of the Rookie Head Coach should we have expected this group of assets to have positively impacted and stabilised the teams overall performance?

I valuated the Assts highly in terms of Defensive and Offensive acumen and found that as a group they showed an ability to execute adjustments of both the Defense and the Offense adequately at the NHL level.This means that when changes were made to these aspects of the teams execution during games they were clear and relatively immediate,they were easy to identify and valuate,this proves the job was in fact being done accurately and consistantly.

I found the PP and the PK to both be lacking until the end of the season when the PP saw some resurgance with proper O-zone entrys being discovered and maintained.The PP was substandard for many reasons,but once the proper entrys were used at years end the beginning of a fundamentally sound and effective NHL Powerplay,potentially top 5 , was committed to by the Coaches.When I balance the years statistical results with the optimal potential for the PP to continue exactly where it left off growing in the right direction as it was i am forced to valuate the overall impact as being tilted towards the future in a positive manner.The PK hasnt turned the corner yet,there is a distinct lack of offensive consideration given to the structural focus of the varied System influences we saw used,i an offensively evolving NHL this intentional oversight cannot be discounted as a regressive impact,any Special teams influence must be more than one-dimensional ,a PP must be both offensive and defensive to perform optimally and in a mirrored dynamic the PK must always have one eye on offense to an NHL degree of attentiveness,this cannot be overlooked if optimal performance is your goa,and in the NHL it must be exactly that.This imbalance created a negative valuation for the PK with little to no base for next season to build off of,it will require complete restructuring.


This entire group showed an above average ability to put together functional System focuses,they were forced to flip-flop between so many System types that it became an excercise in adaptability.A constant tight-rope walk game after game,a self-induced and unstoppable roller-coaster of a pressure cooker which tested everyone beyond average and normal parameters,both cerebrally and physically.

Had this group shown the ability to adjust the original System focus they began the season with then the potential for the grade to have approached a B+ was there,As soon as the Rubber hit the Road during the 1st 20 games,all of the aforementioned vluation components were immediatlly called into action fully and completely,everything was teseted to the extremes of its performance envelope,during that 1st 20 games the communication and functional execution ability of the Coaching Crew was given a true litmus test and each and every weak link in the chain was exposed and every immature and evolving aspect of the groups dynamic compatability and basic acumens were illuminated while under extreme pressure.


The fact is that there is a clear delineation between the System focus Dallas began over the 1st 20 games and the one he finished the year with , the fact that one can clearly see where he changed course nearly every time he did so does not bode well for the overall valuation,this means that the group as a whole were able to produce multiple System projections effectively enough to identify clear borderlines of execution,this means they are all capable of doing their jobs at core level.

If there was one word that had to be singularly applied to the causality of the under-performance of the Coaching Crew in terms of results it would have to be INDECISIVENESS,follwed by insecurity.When the chips were down during the 1st 20 games and losses were piling up a decision had to be made to either maintain the System focus or to adjust it on-the-fly,with a Rookie head Coach stability is key to balanced growth and learning with an experienced Head Coach adaptability is a strength,a Coach and his System are like one concept they go hand in hand,everything the Coach plans and visualises catalyses within his System choice.Dallas was indecisive when he first experienced the snowball effect of a losing streak in the NHL,he did not know if he should stick with his Primary System focus or if he should make adjustments,this indecisiveness impacted the next 20 games taking him 40 games into the season with no descernable balance being found.at the half-way point of the season there was an instinctive push-back towards the early season focus,Dallas was reaching back looking for some solid ground,he was insecure in what his optimal options were,he couldnt identify solid ground in front of the team or behind it.


The riding a bicycle example fits perfectly,the first time you ride a bike and get the pedals going smoothly is a contrast to what you experience the first time you hit the brakes without fully understanding what is about to happen to your momentum and balance and skin layers.If you hit the brakes and do not turf it you will wobble and swing back and forth until you either come to a full stop standing up,fall down or continue on by pedaling fast again and regaining your balance.Dallas did not come to a full stop after 20 games and re-affirm that his basic start was ok and that it was a minor balance issue he needed to address had he done this he would have returned to his original focus and maintained it through hades or high waters,Dallas also did not fall down,he wasnt turfed or fired and he never surrendered,what Dallas did was use his pre-season stated intentions to utilise Multiple-System focuses to stabilse the wobble enough to keep the bike moving in the right direction,he never fully regained poetry of motion but he did keep the bike wobbeling right past the finish line of the season using all kinds of duct-tape and bubble-gum repairs.

If anything this season the players and Coaches did in fact learn how to execute quite a few different System focuses,there is an upside there for them in the long term.

Is it fair to knock over a fella who is busting his cojones to keep his bike wobbeling along,when his head is down his tongue is hanging out and sweat is dripping off of his brow?? No it is not. As a Group the Coaching Crew looked and performed exactly like the kid I just described.
I see no reason to kick their bike over on them,they have to find their own destiny either on the ground turfed or up ahead smothly peddaling along with the other high flyers.I could understand bringing the Crew in its entirity back next season,simply because the bike is still up and moving forward,they are surviving.

That is my valuation of the Coaching Crews performance this past season.



My Future prospectus is that this Group has shown me the ability to get their jobs done in terms of executing adjustments on the ice,of creating predictable impacts,and this is key,the tactical errors are a different component of the game,as long as the adjustments on the ice follow the requests of the coaches then the Coaches are doing one facet of their jobs adequately,the validity and wisdom of the tactical drivers behind these adjustments is another facet of the Coaches job tht has to be vluated on its own merits.

I think this group will be here next season,and i think the results will be similar to this seasons results unless a SINGLE adequate NHL System of play is embraced 100% by managment and the Players,I believe the Coaches as a group and the Players as a Group can get their respective jobs done for 82 games,however i do not belive that a properly suited system has been chosen and I do not believe there is a mindset and committment to utilising one singular System over the entire season.The System must dynamiclly suit the roster and the System must do this while at the same time produce NHL level winning results,it cannot cater to individual players or be one-dimensional or it will be easily shut down in the NHL.

If one Optimal System is chosen and it is properly suited to the roster and it is executed all season long with no core value adjustments,then the Sky is the limit because the right men are available to get their jobs done provided they have an adequate Template they can all acess understand and share.

I do not believe that the defensive mindset that is so strong organisationally has the ability to self-valuate to the degree that they could also self-diagnose and apply self-directed curative actions.Offensive authority and power must be implemented into the decision making process of the organisation as a whole,real and tangible influence and power over the teams future vision .This offensive/defensive balance has been lacking for 9-10 years organisationally.!0 years ago the spiral into a defensive survival mentality was complete,the Dynasty days were banished completely,and the franchise was entering a Dark Age. A defensive Survival mentality pervaded the Organisation from the ice surface to ownership every aspect of the Oilers was closing ranks and battening down the hatches for a seige,a seige mentality overcame everyone from the top down and this had to happen for the very Franchise to survive,so the most powerfull defensive minded assets available were retained and freed to do their jobs which they did very well,these men kept the Franchise alive and kicking when it easily could have floundered and been lost.This takes us to today,we are now in a position of abundance in money and in talent,but the Decision making group is one of stalwart fighting men who are severely scarred from decades of defensive posturing and battle,these men are not masters of managing Abundance,so they need help,it is not acceptable to watch and allow them to flounder after they have given so much and have held the savages at the Gate for so many years.


The ownership mentality and money situations have changed,if fact if Katzes true nature and personality were to be reflected in the personality of the franchise ,it would have found and retained the most offensive assets available to lead his Oilers.

The franchise is not in survival Mode anymore but its Upper managment group cannot conceptualise this,they dont think they need help,and to survive they dont but to thrive they most certainly do.


It is very hard for an organisation to Flourish and have sucess if the Owners personality and drive and desires are not reflected throughout the entire super-structure,there is no more important a Driver behind success than the Pride and Owership and attention to detail a massive monetary investment create.


This Team needs more of Katzes personality and it needs more offensive input from a power point perspective ,it needs both things immediatly and it seems to me that those may very well be one in the same,I think Katz has more to his personality than we are seeing,he is just to shy to be an impositon,maybe he doesnt realise that he is not an imposition but in fact he is a critical ingredient to success.


During the season Fans behave like players do during a Game,there is nothing personal happening,it is all business.When the season is over it is like when the game is over,it is time to assess,valuate and move on.


Whatever happened during the Game and Season are properly left behind now.


Next season will be a new entity unto itself.Until we know what ingredients we will be starting the season with there is no way to postulate an optimal template.We will just have to wait and see who shows up at the door next season looking to get in.


The standards requred to become a winning NHL Playoff team are clear,the statistical baselines set by the peer managed dynamics tell managers exactly what they need to create offensively to win NHL hockey games.The challenge is to identify those statistics and then to find a System that is suited to the existing assets which is capable of consistantly producing these peer defined statistical results.The System is less important as a single entity than reaching and surpassing those peer defined statistical standards happens to be,so one cannot hang on to a system based on a belief or a philisophical attatchment to a concept like defense for example.No matter how you choose to consider defense in the NHL you must score more goals than your opponent to win any given game.This is not an opinion or a perspective chioce,this is not negotiable or mallable,this is a concrete fact and reality that must always be the PRIMARY DRIVER behind everything a competative sports team does.

If Ryan Jones is out there ,he needs to post up here and give me an ear,ASAP.It has nothing to do with hockey,although it has a lot to do with Oil.

Nothing from last season matters at this point.

No Player evaluations are possible, to many major System changes were made during the season to get a solid read on anyone at all.

Statistical Valuations are flawed without a stable System influence to parse them with.


The causality of the Oilers challenges has remained the same for many many years at this point, it is a waste of time for Fans to attempt to make sense of how or why their Team is in the position it is currently in,that of the NHLs basement.

There is no possible way that current managment and Ownership are disconnected from this mess,it is impossible for this degree of dereliction and mismanagment to happen for this many consecutive years without managerial understanding.


This means we have all been played for idiots and pushovers.

This means the Players have also been treated this way.

This means that there is no more loyalty available to this Decision maker whomever it may be.

Make no mistake,this isnt about the Players and because the Rookie Head Coach didnt have the Juice to argue with anyone and we all know it ,it isnt really about him or his Crew,this is about the Man or Men who have refused to abandon the Defense First mentality and have in fact taken it to a regressive and absurd degree.


Dallas Eakins tried some new tactics to start the year,those tactics were POSITIVE and although the changes didnt work out this time and didnt stick around they were in fact focused in the right direction ,an offensive one.

People may valuate the season as they choose,I myself believe that had the adjustments Dallas tried to make early worked out the team had a fair chance to make the Playoffs.Many people will not understand the tactical Coaching aspect of the game well enough to have grasped exactly what Eakins was in fact trying to accomplish.I do.He was trying to manufacture a Superior Defensive Scheme which can outperform traditional NHL Defensive Schemes.He actually managed to create this impact,but when the first clear challenge presented itself to this NewAge System of Defense ,the Rubber hit the Road,the corrections didnt work over the two game period while they were attempted. The fact is that 2 games was not enough time to correct a new System because Dallas was working with a Blank Slate and he had no overall Template to refer to ,only his own notes,he couldnt simply slip into Plan B,there was no Plan B he was working on-the-fly.The stumbling block should have been anticipated,and had Dallas had access to the NewAge Hockey Systems creator and data source he would have had the ability to make these types of anticipatory calls.You see Dallas applied a core value Concept from Moma2s NewAge Hockey System and tried to apply it to a traditional Defensive Schematic,he tried to Turbo-Charge his defensive Zone performance without re-tuning the rest of the Car,or without re-defining and re-aligning the n-zone and o-zone tactics so that they would join seamlessly with Super-Charged Defensive focus.For those who arent really into the Coaching side of the games ,just to let you know......Dallases Defensive Adjustments worked TO WELL FOR THE REST OF THE TRADITIONAL SYSTEM FOCUS TO HANDLE .Dallases application of PARTIAL Moma2s NewAge Hockey System data was in fact A BOOMING SUCCESS.,it was not in any way a failure.The failure was in not being able to match the n-zone and o-zone traverses and transitions and theie managment to the now Superior NHS-adjusted Defensive focus.The Defense was moving the puck up and out TO FAST FOR THE TRADITIONAL sYSTEM BASE TO HANDLE.Make no mistake ,Dallas didnt trip up where most online and Mainstream Media reporters have been yapping about,he slipped up in places they didnt even notice. Dallas fell victim to the same mistake many many of his peers including such icons as Scotty Bowman and Daryyl Sutter fell for,he was Vain enough to believe he could simply take small degrees of Moma2s NewAge Hockey System that he liked and simply slap them onto his own System ideas and have everything work tickety-boo. Dallas didnt believe I was as smart as he is or as NHL Coaches and Managers are,and he paid dearly for it,as Sutter has since his "singular" Cup Win ,and as Bowman will soon once we can define his streak being "singular" NO REPEATS.Because I say so.As my own Moma says " I brought you into this world , and I can take you out just as fast as I brought you in",the NHS took you there and it will stonewall you as required.


As Sutter and Bowman and [not Quinn] Renney and krueger and now Eakins have discovered,you cannot take the NHS and run with it on your own,it in NON-TRADITIONAL.There is NO BOOK ON IT.I am the Book.If I add some NHS adjustments to an existing System and it improves,it ISNT THE COACHES AND NHL MANAGERS MAKING THE POSITIVE IMPROVEMENT,it is in fact me doing it through partial implementation of Moma2s NewAge Hockey System.If this fact is denied or there is failure to aknowledge and valuate the source of the positive adjustments,when things start to go wonky there is no Book to rely on to correct things,Because the NHS is NON-TRADITIONAL it is very very difficult for NHL Regulars no matter how experienced they are to understand how to stop the bleeding.Although I will say that Calgary is doing quite well now and Patrick Roy is right on the Money,I was laughing last time we player Roy because he really worked it man,he made 3 NHS adjustments and he made them at the right times.He is already able to put together combonations,soon he will be gaining a greater understanding of the NHS and how it effects his System focus and will improve.Watch out for him he is dialed in.



Here is the greatest irony of the entire 2013-14 Season, the Systems defensive adjustments that Dallas made early in the Year were outstanding,they were excellent and they worked exactly as he intended,but because he FAILED TO CONSULT WITH THE NHSs CREATOR,he put the Cart before the Horse,and he failed to properly align the other two zone managment tactics to produce impacts as Superior as his Defensive Zone exits were consistantly producing almost immediatly.He couldnt create the n-zone "loading of the Guns" or the o-zone "firing of the Cannons".He sure got that Weapon pointed in the right direction fast coming out of the d-zone though didnt he?The very fact that Dallases efforts produced such a Superior D-Zone Exit result albeit a Stand-Alone impact proves beyond any doubt what types of impacts adding NHS modifications can create,Dallas has in fact VALIDATED his suspicions that the NHS modifications would be superior to traditional focuses.He just didnt fully understand it all when the Bullets were flying early in the season and he became shell-shocked,so he naturally postured up defensively and abandoned his Plan "A".This was the turning point of the season.


The 2nd greatest irony is that 99.9 % of the Internet and MSM reporters and Bloggers didnt have a clue what was going on from a Coaching and Tactical Stand-point.They ALL misdiagnosed the challenges,they missed the boat man.They thought the Defensive focus was a Failure,ha ha ha,when in fact it OVER-PRODUCED,it EXCELLED.


There you have it,the Defensive minded Rookie Head-Coach had the guts to try a NewAge tactic in his innaugural season,and he managed to produce an ULTRA-OFFENSIVE D-Zone exit strategy which was to potent for the rest of his traditionally concieved and structured Systems to handle.Get it Peoples? Mr.

So you see,Dallas actually was right in the middle of his own wheelhouse to start the season when the unexpected happened,he created wayy to much horsepower from the back-end and the rest of the System couldnt handle it.

Now he has begun to understand how to seamlessly meld his d-zone exits with his n-zone traverse and finally with his o-zone transition.

He is doing this based off of a simplified defensive d-zone structure and exit very close to his early season execution,not quite as fast but nearly as aggressive.If he can add a Stand-up influence to own the blueline when the tables are turned he might survive.But with all of the NHL team now using NHS modifications and implementing Intuitive Dynamic Managment concepts it is CRITICAL to eliminate any type of structured o-zone attack right at or above the blueline by removing a number from the playaction ASAP.It is a traditional KISS approach.I am not trying to add anything NHS to the Oilers Systems approach,they are just getting their legs under them right now,and are not ready for more yet,first they need to sort out or choose the right n-zone and o-zone managment tactics,which is what I have been banging on for the last 60 games,only when they have all 3 zones seamlessly working together for them will they be ready to complicate things a little more by adding NHS mods.They are close to finding an identity,close to melding Dallases learning curve into the Players learning curves.Its give and take,Dallas took control and forced himself to sort out his defensive zone exit even though it took all season to do it ,and he took a lot of natural tendancies away from his offensive players to do it,it was only near the end of the season that he began to GIVE back to the players and begin to adjust the offense to suit their natural tendancies more,that is called a beginning.How the story unfolds next season will depend on the levels and quality of reflection and valuations made post-season by Dallas and the Players.One thing is clear though,and it is that this developing System is not the NHS and the way Dallas executes his d-zone tactics is his own right now,and no it isnt the Swarm because there is no such thing as the Swarm and there never was that was the NHS not the Swarm,this is neither of those influences coming out of the back-end that is all Eakins,and the System is developing and evolving into an Adjusted-Hybrid all on its own and once that is finished then NHS modifications can be added,2 years ago it would have been similar mods to the Hawks [they copied us first!!] but with todays roster the end product the Oilers will be selling next year will look more like the Blues are right now.If Dallas implements Moma2s NewAge Hockey System then you will see the "swarm" impact created by the NHS returning,but not in the d-zone,and the team will skip a few grades immediatly and possibly become a serious playoff threat.First lets see if Dallas can execute the Adjusted-Hybrid he and the Players find themselves developing together here.Then we will start talking turkey.


It would be far easier to just open negotiations ASAP.

For now its time to do some quick reading on how the soon to be Champion Blues are doing,they are about to get into their groove.Time for the fine-tuning to start.

Time to play spin the bottle.

If one were to ask the Coaches and G.M,screw the POHO,what -exactly- what they would valuate as the primary causality of last seasons spiral and crash,I wonder what they would say?

Because you see the only reason I would accept any of them back were I to be running the show is if they could give me a reasonable primary causality for failure that did not include the Players as being an option .

The Players are NEVER the causality of chronic losing which spans nearly a decade of organisational weakness.

Dallas stepped up to the Plate with some accountability after he saw Torterella do it in Vancouver,smart move,he came clean,as clean as he could,kudos to Dallas for having some survival instincts in there somewhere.As I posted yesterday I do not believe Dallases early season d-zone adjustments were the causality of the spiral,I believe it was an inaboity of the other two phases of the System in the n-zone and o-zone which represented the hole in the bottom of the boat.Dallas took it on the chin for his defensive adjustments being poorly concieved and timed,when it was really a failure to be fully prepared which hurt him,had he properly structured his entire system at the same time as he adjusted his defensvie zone managment using the same concepts and principals then things would have been much different.


You see everyone is missing the boat here, if the men managing things do not have a clear and accurate valuation of the past then history is doomed to repeat itself as it has for nearly a decade now.


The Coach/Player dynamic WAS NOT the Primary causality of the seasons dive,that was much more complicated and purely technical based.


I maintain that the only constant over the last 8 years which carries the power and juice to catalyse the consistany of crap that we have all witnessed is the DEFENSIVE MINDSETS PRESENT AND ACCOINTED FOR THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE ORGANISATION.


The powers that be are one-dimensionaly defensive minded and this is abundantly clear at this point,

This starts with the POHO and runs to the G>M and then to the head Coach and then to the Captain. The fact that Dallas was hired supprts this and the fact that ference was named Captain also wupports this.

The Oilers know full well that this is the area of weakness,but they insist on trying to stack the deck year after year with additional defensive assets to prove that this is not the case,and they have gone to long term extremes to make this reality stick,and no it has not been successfull.


This is not a mistaken path the Edmonton Oilers are on,it has been planned and supported and tacticlly managed.This is exactly what Managment wants,they believe in themselves and do not care what ANYONE else thinks,the owner has empowered them to show us all their own version of a production of The Emporers New Clothes,because he is derelict in his duties as an owner and is hands off he handcuffs his managers by allowing them to self-police and this creates a Dynamic whithin which they are not able to self-valuate-self-diagnose and apply curative measures to THEMSELVES.


The single dose antidote for this disease is Moma2s newAge Hockey System,and this is because there is no way anyone else barring a STRIKE TEAM of NHL legends has a chance to challenge or upgrade this tremendous group of defensive maniacs,they are to smart and savvy working as a tight-knit group to topple their power-perspective and its influence.

The NewAge Hockey System and its Intuitive Dynamic Managment program have the ability to ADD the consistant balancing offensive impacts to this defensive Super-structure that it needs to find ,not just within the Managment group or the Player group,this impact can be applied organisationally in a short time period.This can be done WITHOUT deleting assets which are currently retained.Yes,this means everyone can stay,but everyone needs to go to Summer |School together if they want to keep their Jobs,they all need to become NHS Interns over the Summer.

It is clear what this team needs and that is offensive balance in organisational Planning ,Growth,and execution.

Because the dynamic is managerially over-supported defensively,the traditional options would be limited and would include deletions and additions,in the Plural. A number of defensively minded people would traditionally need to be moved out and replaced with pure offensive minds to sew up this type of massive hole.

There simply IS NO TRADITIONAL CURATIVE MEASURE which precludes moving out people and bringing in new ones.Heads must roll if something NewAge and Cutting Edge and most importantly ABLE isnt found and applied immediatly.

I am beginning to think that this group managing things now is really insecure,I am not so sure they have the BELIEF in what they are doing to a Championship degree,there is a bit of a belief void present.I dont think the Group has enough confidence left after the last 8 of losing years to generate the belief it takes to fight their way back to the top of the heap.

These men do not BELIEVE that there is anything that can help them ,they dont believe that anyone could be smarter or have more acumen than their group posseses,they actually think they are the Cats Meow and cannot be challenged by anyone,this is a destructive and regressive mentality,we all know there is ALWAYS someone bigger and better out there somewhere.

At the end of the day the men dont believe in themselves enough anymore to be brave enough to openly and honestly consider and valuate ANYTHING that doesnt originate at the Round Table.

This has never been about the Players believing in themselves,it has been about a lack of belief within managment which has forced them to close the Gates and close Ranks internally,and this my friends prevents them from accepting ANY type of inputs that arent painted the color they defend.


You see it isnt enough to just add ONE offensive mind,you would need to line up the manpower and cut the NUMBER in half,deleting defensive minds and adding offensive ones to correct the organisational imbalance.We all know this cannot be done with the way the Team is run by its owner.The Managment group values the integrity of THEIR MEN more than the success of the team,this dynamic has been CREATED by the formation of the Round Table mentality and decision making process,the accountabilty has been assigned to a group so errors and weaknesses are absorbed by the group and NO ONE CAN EVER BE SINGLED OUT AND REPLACED.This is a Defensive Players mentality being projected via a Managerial powerbase,hello K-Lowe.

So you see if the offensive CURE brought in does not have the Juice from Katz to go toe to toe with K-Lowe all the way to a Mexican Stand-off if need be then nothing can be improved upon.

What one singular entity has the offensive acumen and depth of projection to impact an entire organisation in a seamless and timely manner?The NHS does.


I am not entirely sure I have ever read anyone online trying to provide the Oilers with a SOLUTION,sure there is tons of feedback and opinionating,but who has ever offered a SOLUTION.??I have thats who.

Who has ever stated that they can take all of the assets present and accuonted for and turn them into Champions,without making any changes at all?I have made this same statement for 3-4 years now,and it has been an accurate one directed at each of the different groups we have had each year,I have NEVER viewed the problem as originating from the men themselves,it has always been an organisational defensive over-balance to me.Each of the Groups of Managers and Players over the last 4 years could have taken the Oilers into the Playoffs and won a Championship.


This is where Fans AND Oilers ownership and managment are all missing the boat, a LEADER doesnt look down the ranks of his men and consider who to send away to make himself stronger,never,a LEADER looks at what he has and CREATES A WINNING FORMULA based off of those assets,he MAKES IT HAPPEN.


If you cannot even visualise how to win or produce a winning environment and dynamic then surely you will never be consistantly winning.

In each of the last 4 years I can show you posts where I pleaded for Ownership and managment to wake up and smell the Coffee,I have clearly stated that the causality of the losing has NOT been the Players or Coaches or Managers as individuals,I have given each chronological group my full endorsement and support,and then have structured changes to suit each of those groups individually.

If you posses average NHL skills and abilitys as a Player you are qualified,if you posses avarage NHL managerial skills,you are qualified.It is that simple.

If the LEADERS of this Organisation cannot produce a Playoff team with AVERAGE NHL assets under their control then they as a group are lacking.

I believe that the Oilers have had proper assets in every one of the last 8 NON-PLAYOFF years,bar none.

People need to look for a pattern of consistancy to properly valuate the causality of the teams 8 year losing history.This pattern must run for at least 8 years.There are very very few dynamics one can find which qualify under these parameters.

One must decide if this has been an unlucky run of 8 different causalitys,or several multi-year runs of similar causalitys re-visited,or if it has been one long drawn out causality which has never been identified quantified and diagnosed or treated.

I believe the causality is one of defensive overload in all core value managerial and decision making areas and that this has been at a minumum a DECADE long de-volution of an Offensively catalysed organisational mindset and culture.Nothing else has the potential to fit the pattern we see.

The change from an Offensive minded organisation to a Defensive one was expedited and as a result it was not achieved in a balanced manner,offensive inputs had to be short-changed to enable the fast evolution into a defensive type of team which could compete in the NHL.

You all brought in to much defensive input to fast over 10 years ago,and it took root,you are facing a defensive monster now and will need to be carefull how you try to handle it,you cannot dismantle it without killing it,so you need to make friends with it and get to know it and ASK it to change,you need to convince it to change of its own accord.You need to give it what it needs to survive,CONFLICT,defensive minds work best when under pressure and when facing conflict,if managers cannot find this within their own group they will create unknowingly conflict elsewhere in the organisation so they can use their strengths.This is why the team melted down this past season,you need to implant an offensive power that is as strong as K-Lowe to create managerial conflict so they can all use their strengths where those strengths need to be excercised,in the offices.What you have now is a horde of defensive minded men working from a Round-Table focus sulking around looking for conflict internally,looking for problems they can solve using their strengths,like teenagers causing to much trouble at home as they develop.

You need to add a Wild-card to this mix,it is already an odd defensively overloaded mix or mess,so you really have nothing to lose and obviously it will take something as lopsided in the offensive direction as the current managment to be a benefit.what is out there like this? Only Moma2s NewAge Hockey System fits this bill folks.get on your computers and start searching back 8 years minimum and show me a SYSTEM or a PROGRAM that anyone has offered the Oilers to help stop this death-spiral?You will find hu as ndreds of thousands of opinions and observations but you will not find tangible solutions which are in-depth and appliccable.Not until you run into the NHS which I created 4 years ago that is,then you will see a consistant and correct influence specificlly designed to fix this problem.I tailormade the NHS to fit the Oilers current dynamic situation as a losing Franchise with an extended record of futility which is defensively overbalanced and dysfunctional as it stood 4 years ago.Things havent changed since then.There is nothing available from a traditional curative stand-point and no one has the cojones to reach out to anything NewAge,at least not in the proper and respectfull and modern ways.

What have K-Lowe and Mac-T and the rest of the men been doing the last 4 years besides losing???????

What is their explanation for todays dynamic situation?

How do they think they got here where they are today?


What do they think they need to do to pull the organisation out of the death-Spiral?

I havent seen anythng added to the mix to make me believe Oilers Managment has any clue how to make next season a winning one,trying to add small bits and pieces of the NHS one at a time how you want and when you want will not cut it,the NHS influence is superior in every way and area and must be applied to everything at the same time to have optimal formative impacts.All I see is a Team that wasted a contractually critical year,and at the end of it all they managed to do was BEGIN to put together an Adjusted-Hybrid System of play,something they were already using in 1012-13,this is a wasted year.This is why the Players were so confused and frustrated,they had to go through the entire process of developing a different version of an Adjusted-Hybrid that Eakins could understand,the Players had to go backwards so Dallas could get his footing and move forwards,I am not sure how they managed to handle it considerin Dallas began culling players out of knee-jerk panic so early and began targetting men like Nail so early.At the end of the day unfortunately even when this current Eakins version of an Adjusted-Hybrid is settled in it will not be as suited to the roster as Ralph kruegers was,no offence intended.

The oilers at the end of the 2012-13 season were using a more offensive Adjusted-Hybrid System and from time to time were adding NHS modifications,the oilers at the end of 2013-14 are barely able to execute a defensive focused Adjusted-Hybrid.Ground was lost,and if Dallas doesnt hit his stride perfectly next season we will see another Squirrel Egg laid by the Oilers in 2014-15.

org. -- oilerbear -- this is a fitting assesment and really gets to the gist of what the team is lacking , I believe this assesment numericlly sets a minumum parameter in terms of the offense the Oilers NEED to produce,it is an accurate valuation of the peer established standards needed to make the Playoffs.I believe the numbers need to be increased by and additional 30% to begin to stretch the rosters ability level out.


BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!

did you look at our season?
to start the year.
we had gagner and RNH out; Hall playing centre.
from start to oct 20
versus the east
4W-3L-1OTL .563%

oct 20 to nov 9
We had 3 or more of Hall, Perron, Smyth, gagner out
versus the east
1W-5L .167%

After gagners return
Versus the east
10-5-3 .639%

Versus west teams we were equal or better than in points.
WPG; CGY; NSH; DAL; COL
8W-4L-3OTL .633%

Versus
VCR; PHX; MIN; LAK; ANA; SJS; STL; CHI;
Until we got Scrivens and Fasth
we were
0W-16L-2OTL .056%
Since we have our 2 current holies
6W-8L-0 .429

I would take .633% against the east and bottom west.

that is 61 pts from 48games.

.429 in the other 34 versus the top west!
Would be just short of the playoffs!

We are short on Even goal scoring.

in the east 144 even goals gets you in the playoffs.
In the west you need to be 157 even goals to be competing for a playoff spot.

Edmonton is at 136 evg.
we need 25-30 more EVG to be right up with the elite west teams

we need an upgrade in Even goal scoring from Hemsky, jeonsuu, jones,
have Gagner and yak bounce back from a reduced EVG production years.

Adding Marincin and Klefbom over Smid and N. schultz has reduced EVGA.

Scrivens and Fasth over Dubnyk, Labarbera, Bryz.





I just happened to be surfing and came across a post by another Fan requesting that Moma2s NewAge Hockey System be implemented by the Oilers and decided to read a few more posts,there were some very interesting and accurate valuations and insights lke the one above.


The curative actions required in Edmonton are not hard to identify,forcing managment to address them is the difficult thing to do.


Looking at the numbers it seems like an easy fix,however scoring goal in the NHL is anything but easy,this is why a Player like Nail Yakupov who showed everyone that he could carry the offensive load on the 2nd line at the NHL level in his Rookie season has been done such a massive disservice by Dallas Eakins. In my opinion this was one of Eakins core value errors that catalysed the Squirrel Egg of a Season he laid for us all.David perron will never equal the numbers of goals a Nail Yakupov will put up over a full NHL season, it is a matter of optimal potential,it is a better investment of the 2nd lines focus and managment to support nail Yakupov 100% in WHATEVER WAYS HE REQUIRES so as to recieve maximum return on the minutes those men play.David perron is a puck possesion monster and generates the same type of playactions as Hall does,Hall is more creative and opens up more ice and Perron drives the net looking for contact.Dallas Eakins was faced with the same decisions Ralph krueger was faced with,with the exception of MPS being gone and Perron being present.The 2nd line needed to be shored up immediatly,when perron proved to be a puck hog and a line controlling influence,with his style then Eakins had to decide between supporting Perrons direct attack or supporting nail Yakupovs in-experience with accomodating playactions as Krueger had successfully managed to do using MPS and Gagner.

Eakins chose to make an extra effort to play Perron as the 2nd lines driving force instead of making an
extra effort supporting Nails development and style.

We wasted a year of yakupovs development and on top of that hammered the snot out of his confidence,this was the 2nd time Eakins made this mistake,he did it to Kadri and then he did it to Yakupov,this is something that was never and is not acceptable.Eakins did not make Kadri a better player because of his publiclly attacking him and personally debasing him,not in the least,it was a personality clash,same as with Nail,Eakins is at fault in both cases ,as an NHL Head Coach more is expected from him in terms of self-policing himself and in terms of mentoring young players.

David and Nail will never play well together and Nail has a better upside,we need an MPS clone on the 2nd line supporting our creative centerman and our triggerman Winger in Nail Yakupov,I said it then and i say it again trading MPS was a huge mistake,we lost big time because Nail was OBVIOUSLY the Triggerman on the 2nd line permanently when Krueger was here,he had proven that he could put the puck in the net at an elite pace with the linemates he was with,and he was on the upswing,they all were.

We lost natural size ,superior speed and instinctive defensive awareness and a man happy in his role when we gave up MPS,all of the things we now need to support Nail on the 2nd line, we gained aggressive drives on net which require dominant puck possesion by one player to get the job done effectively taking the offense out of the other 2 men on the 2nd line unless they are big huge men who can dig out rebounds to support Perrons constant rushes and quick shots,even a bushleague coach can see that Perrons style is perfect for an offensive NHL 3rd line,one and done every time,taking it to the net hard on every possesion,in fact Perron simply takes Hemsks role on the 3rd line in a well managed roster.

I put in a lot of hard work with MPS,Gagner and Yakupov helping that line find their comfort zone and it was all wasted when some idiiot allowed MPS to be traded.There were a lot of intangibles present with MPS on that line that have been destroyed.

If we focus on Perron as the 2nd lines catalyst we are a one-and-done 2nd line offense ,this is obvious.This was something Eakins made a decision on early in the season.


This team will never be a Playoff team until they can properly utilise thier assets.

High level 2nd line scoring will not happen with Perron as the catalyst,because you will never be able to optimise Gagners substantial offense or Yakupovs superior shooting with that dynamic replaying itself on every possesion,and to ask Perron to adjust his game at all diminishes him totally as we saw several times this season,he is actually high-maintenance in tht sense.He is a 3rd line scoring threat every game as hemsky was,that is what his skillset is.


What the idiots who traded MPS need to do is find a 6'3 - 213 lb ,fleetfooted,offensively able but defensively natural winger who is 100% happy in the role he is asked to execute while he gets 2nd line minutes and supports a Creative centerman and an Elite Shooter.Good luck dum-dums.


I believe we will need Gagners lone managment skills to optimise Yakupovs skillset however they see fit within Eakins System parameters,this means they need an MPS clone not a Perron on their wing.

I belive we need Perrons style and skillset driving the 3rd line offense supported by two big bangers who can dig for pucks,Gordon and Hendricks sound right.

We need to put Nail in a position to score 40+ goals next season and we need to do anything up to and including censoring Dallases powers as a Head-Coach do make it happen,if Dallas is going to be a fly in the ointment and give less than 100% to this then he must be muzzled.Actually if Dallas doesnt follow this template then he and Mac-t both need to go,because last season was a horrible example of Player managment,especially being a follwup to one where we were seeing glimpses of the ELITE EXECUTION EVERYONE EXPECTED FROM THIS GROUP.

I believe this team under Dallas Eakins will fade early next season,I dont believe that hall is the right man to be catalysing around and Eakins has petted him enough to tame him temporarily.I see Taylor Hall as a tool,and at this point only that,he is a talented winger given free reign who has failed to optimise his linemates for nearly two season now as he has ridden their coattails to establishing an NHL elite name for himself.

I havent seen Hall translate his numbers across 3 lines yet,not without dominating puck possesion and playaction time on the ice completely.

I want to see Hopkins given hall level lattitude and support,and I want Hall in chains where he belongs both on the ice and in the dressing room.

I want to see Nuge and Gagner leading their lines into battle as line managers and everyone follwing their calls.

I want to see Hall executing his job as a winger not a Center/Winger Hybrid who dominates puck time.

I want to see Yakupov given MORE line support than Hall because I believe he can outscore Taylor from the 2nd line and win us as many games as anyone in the lineup.

The only place Perron fits is the 3rd line and he gives us 3 offensive lines,which is what this team needs.Its not what you can do for us,its what you can do for us where we think we most need you.I know perron can score 30 goals if he is able to dominate 2nd line icetime and puck possesion,however I think Yakupov can score 40+ with the equal amount of focus and support from his linemates and more importantly where he has been most lacking from his COACH.

Add Nails 10+ more goals from the 2nd line,and cut perrons down by ten and ADD his 20 goals to the 3rd line and we are nearly where we need to be to be a Playoff team.

Sam gagner can not be a shot option with Perron on his line and he is a Creative center not a Physical one made to dig out rebounds off of Perron shots,Yakupov sure as heck isnt a big winger designed for digging out rebounds either,so unless we jettisson Gagner and yakupov which many many people are leaning towards,we need to smell the coffee and get these same old issues worked out.Intuitive Dynamic Managment is not being properly utilised here and it is painfully obvious.


The biggest Player mistake and one which we are nowhere near repairing was when we traded MPS for perron,this is not to say that perron has not produced as advertised because he has,I am saying it was a managerial retarded move to make because of player suitability and chemistry.

Until we have firmly established a support winger for Gagner and Yakupov and unequivocally set them as the 2nd line catalysts,this team is doomed.

This team must be an offensive team to win in the NHL,it is what it is,3-4 lines of offense for 60 minutes.

Your dominant shooters are in order of skillset level ,Nail Yakupov,Taylor Hall,David Perron,your Snipers are Eberle ,Gagner and Hopkins.

Dominant shooters must be supported 100% by both their linemates AND the System and Coaches who manage it.

The other 3 men in the top 9 are support wingers who are selected on a line per line basis to compliment both the Dominant shooter nd the snipers on each line,every line needs a specific and different type of support winger.

Hall catalyses the 1st lines dominant shooting.--- high speed wing pressure with lots of passing off the wing- 2 outlet snipers to finish cross-ice passes
Yakupov catalyses the 2nd lines dominant shooting. --- fast release shots coming off of controlled rushes- one outlet sniper and one defensive coverage specialist with high speed who stays back
Perron catalyses the 3rd lines dominant shooting. --- high pressure net attack with quick first shots with rebound pursuit immediatly-- one netforce support man and one defensive specialist with size who forces the defense to collapse to him when he is up high who exchanges well with an incoming d-man,to bring in support for Perrons consistant net pressure and rebounds.

This is what the Oilers have to work with in their top 9, you can slice it any way you choose to but this is what it is.

The 1st line excells because it is dynamiclly compatable,the 2nd line was a wreck this season and Nail was black-balled by Eakins,the 3rd line wasnt to bad when Hemmer was on it.

The 1st line needs some managerial structure which will expand its offensive abilitys to include Nuge and Ebbs as puck carrying threats more often,hall must learn to finish off playaction passes and score off of rebounds,be a Pure winger for once.Nuge must be allowed to evolve as an NHL level scoring threat,he must be pushed there.His defensivness is what give hall free run,but we lose to much,Nuge is more than a defensive center to support Hall and we need to get him back on track as an offensive threat,he has lost a year like Nail has.

The 2nd line needs a seal of approval that it will remain intact,Gagner needs some respect as a Veteran NHL centerman from Eakins and needs to be trusted to work seamlessly with Nail,the support winger brought in must be an MPS clone,and be defensive but have the size and speed to push opposition defenders into set play defensive structures implementing double coverage support,we need a man big enough to lean into the d-men coming hard down the wing with at least high speed and hopefully elite speed like MPS has so he can cycle through and get back into defensive position fast enough and consistantly enough.

The 3rd line needs a bona-fide scoring threat which is simple,straightforward and to the point,one which doesnt waste any possesions,one that gets shots off fast and furiously.Gordon willl win pucks for us,and Perron will drive an immediate and dangerous offense every time we put the puck on his stick off of those faceoffs.This line needs a big tough man to defend perrons attitude and to clean up around the net.





These are all issues which were discusses at the beginning of this losing season and nothing constructive or curative was actioned for whatever reasons.I see no obvert reason to expect anything to change next season and if this level of dereliction surrounding Player valuation,assesment and application is repeated the results will again make the Oilers a Lottery team.


What I just said,I said 3 + years ago,Pat was listening,Tom didnt have the right resources,and Ralph came around with only a half-season to do it in and produced the impacts outlined here from time to time.Dallas has been doing it "his way" which is fine but we now have a valuation baseline to apply to him and it is what it is.

You see,considering the assets we have,there is NO OTHER OPTIMAL WAY TO DO THINGS,and I very well know that.If Mac-T and Dallas make more Player changes,it will not help them,it will simply shuffle the deck a bit,they will still need to make correct and proper valuations assesments and applications of the new men in line with the levels they werent able to generate with ther old men.


It is never the Players,a good Coach can get the best out of his men,a good Coach will adapt and learn and change himself as much as the Players without really changing his overall focus and intentions.A good Coach doesnt have to lose the little balltle internally because he doesnt allow them to develop.

A good Coach makes accurate and proper valuations of his men,and he understands thst there is no way for him to seperate statistics and popular opinions or OBSERVATIONS from this equation,if either the stats or public opinion is drasticlly tilted in any direction then a good coach makes an immediate and accurate dynamic valuation of causality and adjusts himself accordingly.There are semi-concrete barometers good Coaches utilise,without them one is undergunned at the NHL level.

!st line -- finishers
2nd line -- finishers
3rd line -- diggers
4th line -- finishers


When you break down the roles and minutes of the 4lines it is obvious that the talent level dives from the 1st to 4th lines.This does not have to be this way.


One of the top 3 scoring catalysts must be rotated into the 4th line minutes,the coaches need to to this.

We want offense from all 4 lines and we wnt it to come from System executions based on NHL level offensive tactics.There is no time in a 60 minute hockey game to waste on defense only mentality.Puck possesions are not for wasting.


Heres the real problem,these men are all potential line catalysts,Gagner,Hall,Yakupov,Nuge,Eberle,PerronJ Schultz,so you see we only have room for 4 of these men to be optimised BUT we have 7 men who can fill this role.This defines the team as being in a position of abundance offensively,wether or not they maximise that optimal potentil is how the Coaching staff are graded,on wether or not they can pull the most out of the 4 men they need out of the 7 on any given night.This Coaching Crew is in wayyyy over their heads in the tactical planning dept.


So hopefully some critical dynamic requirements are becoming clear for Dallas at this point,are you with me yet Dallas?

You need 14 set plays to come out of your defensive schematic to be able to optimise these 7 men how and when you need to.

Most coaches go into NHL games with 2 or 3 of these types of men and run 1 or 2 line offensive tactics.

The Oilers true advantage comes in the fact that they can match up with any team in the NHL laine for line and the Oilers are DEEPER offensively at the NHL level than anyone else.

But there are on many nights to many cooks in the kitchen,Dallases coaching is green and all hades has been breaking loose,the poor sucker has been trying to drain some horsepower out of the roster because he cannot keep up,and this is a CARDINAL ERROR.It must stop,in fact efforts must be made to get MPS back if plausable.

Early in the year we were still being manhandled,and at the end we were not,it is that simple,we now have men willing and able to foght and we have enough of them to cover for each other when teams try to pick them off one by one and dominate us.

Now the key for the Coaches is to find ways to generate offense within this bubbleof grit or toughness,this OBVIOUSLY means putting one-dimensionally capable men with them and trying to generata scoring off of that base.

We dont need the tough players on the 1sr and 2nd lines and really not even the 3rd line,but we need them there on the bench and they need to be used.So you need to choose a few of the Catalyst players from the list of 7 and incorporate them to those tougher mens lines.For example the 4th line can be manned by two toughs and Perron and his speed,supported by defensemen who jump into the plays when that line is on the ice more than usual.

But you cannot simply slap Perron on the 4th line and expect offense without the d-men chipping in more than usual.

You cannot double shift hall on the 3rd without making suitable adjustments either,everything must revolve around the players who are defined as being line catalysts no matter what line they are on or when they are on it.

So the Defense First mentality can be thrown in the trash where it belongs.There is no set play System which will squeeze enough out of the 7 key catalysts this team posseses.This means that there is no set play defense-first System which will ever fit the group,you may de-construct them sooner than later and do it openly in an NHL fire-sale so as not to drag it out.

There needs to be a clear seperation between the jobs the d-men do and the jobs the Forwards do,this means that the System must be kept simple and easy to understand,this means there needs to be a clear delineation between duties on the ice.

What kind of a managment plan brings the playaction intentionally into its own zone by using a collapse defense when the roster is manned by NHL rookies?

What kind of plan expects Forwards to do the job of D-men?

If you want the men to be able to execute this way Dallas you need to use the full and complete NHS along with its Intuitive Dynamic Managment Program,otherwise you will never produce the balanced impacts you are looking for,this is why your d-zone exit was to high-octane early in the season,you dodnt get it wrong Pal,you got it just right,you just werent prepared for the degree and levels of superior impacts you produced.You started a fire but had no fuel for it to keep it going man.

It is painfully obvious what you are trying to do and equally as painfull watching you fight the cure.

You are trying to TELL someone how to techniclly win a fight without being able to be there inside their head ,and I am trying to teach someone how to feel what it is like to win a fight,emotionally,I am connecting 99% of the time and you are running in the low 40%s range.

I appeal to the mens strongest instincts and natural tendancies and you appeal to their cerebellum,your job is much much more labor intensive and difficult than mine is and your results are never consistant like mine are.

I am teaching the players how to build and maintain their cerebral MUSCLE-MEMORY,you are trying to bolster their cerebral memory. I am attatching feelings and emotions to the ideas and feelings I want to impart,you are simply imparting raw data or numbers and letters.


I am teaching the Players to "feel trouble coming" and you my friend are teaching the men to "see" trouble coming,my students will walk yours into knockouts every time man,my boys will use your mens nomentum against them every time you move and will cripple you immediatly.

Dallas,I have seen you sitting up in the stands and I know why you are doing it,now understand this,you need to blend the perspectives together in real-time to realise a superior advantage and impact.YOU cannot do this,you are needed on the bench,this means you need someone who is a Specialist at pattern Identification working with you,and this just allows you to become functionally operative,not anywhere near optimal.

None of the men on the bench or on the ice are capable of adding this quotient to your template,it simply isnt physiclly possible.

Put it this way,as any good coach does,i adjusted to the data and materials I had to work with from my common perspective and comfort zone and devised methods of optimising what you and your men do out on the ice,this is what it is,so whats the big deal?

Intuitive Dynamic Managment can teach all of your men AND your coaches to pick up the same data as I am getting in terms of pattern recognition and read and reaction accuracy and times,there are things that can be dome at ice level between you and the men that can enable this type of real-time valuation.This impact CAN be translated down to ice level,it just cannot be dome by you and your minions.

Start paying attention to MMA and you will hear sayings coming out of the young men like "rinse-and-repeat"[you gotta love it!] describing the repetition of Intuitive Dynamic Actions, more and more,NHS type things,the old guard is saying things like the "new blood" is doing new things out there,they dont know what else to say because they are seeing new and optimal moves and these are men with 20 years + in the business,Jon Jones talks about using Intuitive Dynamic Managment although he doesnt use that terminology he is describing the impacts,where do you think his inside elbows come from silly --- Intuitive Dynamic Managment of course ha ha ha ha..Everyone wants to keep a good thing secret for some reason,hmmm?

OPTIMAL is the objective and Least Resistance is the Path.Moma2s NewAge Hockey System is the NHL map.There is a Professional Football or NFS,Moma2s NewAge Football System and a combat sports version the NFS or Moma2s NewAge Fighting System,I was working on a Soccer version but it looks like Ralph Krueger beat me to the punch on that one the old Fox,good on him,I hope he remembers the curse that comes along with failing to aknowledge source,did you hear that one Ralph??

Some of us like to make change and some of us like to make money.Sooner or later the two concepts always meet in the middle.Its all about establishing market valuation and then relying on supply and demand to sew the two strings together.


True Champions,the CATALYSTS on winning teams,those men,the Filthy Few will look you right in the eyes every single shift,not down,not away,not to the side,but STRAIGHT IN YOUR EYES,and they do this because they plan on breaking you.They do not change this intensity or this approach,because it is part of the Winning Formula and they know this.You will never break them,and you will never break the NHS,you will comply or you will remain 2nd rate,it is really that simple.

The NHS has never looked away,and now Dallas and his Pals need to accept their positions and either avert their gazes or LEARN how to become the NHSs equals.


The NHS uses your own momentum against you every step of the way,it manufactures a constant path of least resistance for itself,you cannot escape,you must concede or ride out the experience and become changed,one way or another you will become changed it is inevitable.The longer you remain in denial the more your lack of experience and ability to self-valuate and adjust is illuminated,in short you look stupid repeating the same errors over and over expecting a positive outcome out of the sme negative dynamics and efforts.


No other focus has been so tough on the team over the last 4 years,and no one else has given so much either.The NHS hasnt been created to simply illuminate weaknesses,to cause dis-illusion or to be a part of the overall problem,not at all,it was created to valuate dynamics and seek out causality of challenges and to find new and cutting edge ways of meeting and exceeding those challenges,the NHS was created to be a part of the SOLUTION.It was created to BE the solution.

When you are chasing the puck beyond your own d-zone you are initiating OFFENSE not defense,n-zone and o-zone playactions with or without the puck are offensive machinations,backchecking outside of your d-zone is an offensive action not a defensive one,it produces a defensive impact but it is an offensive action.A long breakout pass from in your d-zone is a defensive play that produces offensive impact,because the Primary driver is d-zone exit and the Secondary Driver is offense,so that is a defensive playaction initiation plain and simple.If you cannot grasp this immediatly you need to re-read all of these long and disorganised posts,intentionally disorganised posts which tend to utilise parables written in long hand,it is not an experience to be repeated if possible.

So you see Dorothy,this team needs more OFFENSE and a LOT MORE OF IT,and that offense must be executed via proper backchecking and through the proper and complete understanding of the hows and whys of that focus as per the NHS,not as per traditional thinking.You need to think NHS and execute Eakins if that is possible.

This team needs more DEFENSE and a lot more of it, and that defense must be executed in the STAND-UP FASHION to fully support the offensive backchecking the Forwards will be consistantly executing.This cannot be implemented in half-measures and it must be a full-on Coaching decision,so there is no thinking NHS and executing Eakins in this area,it has to be all Eakins because he is trying to learn to use an Adjusted-Hybrid,he needs to base everything off of set-play defensive structuring.Implementing the Stand-up defense would require a total re-wiring of the teams mentality and the Systems structures.Dallas needs to choose the Stand-up set plays he thinks fit the rest of his System intentions and that fit his Player assets strengths.This is to big a job for him to do on his own over the summer,in fact time is already ticking on next year in a lot of areas.


It was obvious from the get-go that Dallas would need to learn to use either a defensive Hybrid System or a defensive Adjusted-Hybrid System,it was to much to expect him to evolve all the way into say a Ralph Krueger inspired NHS Modified Adjusted-Hybrid,remember though that Scotty Bowman copied OUR NHS Modified adjusted-Hybrid almost exactly in 2012-13 and it took him to the Cup.No matter how you look at it the Oilers will be forced to create a System similar to the NHS that has taken the NHL by storm over the last 3-4 years,the team had first crack at it and they spurrned it,the players didnt but managment did and the rest is history,an ugly ugly history.


If the Oilers are to make the Playoffs next season you WILL see the adjustments I am talking about and the exact ones,it is that simple,you will see the Oilers re-embrace something they had access to 4 years ago,the NHS. As the season ended they were just coming out of the Defensive Hybrid base System Eakins had brought in and were graduating into a defensive Adjusted-Hybrid System which is why at the end everything seemed to be coming together,it really was.The real question is if Dallas even realises where the heck he is on the learning curve,because if he doesnt know exactly how and why he got to the point he was at at seasons end he will be Royally screwed to begin next season no two ways about it fellas.

So really,the Players have brought Dallas along and have taught him as much if not more than he has taught them,they have indoctrinated him into the NHS to some degrees,Dallas now thinks more like the Players not the other way around,and the Players are thinking Moma2s NewAge Hockey System and Intuitive Dynamic Managment,so doesnt it make one wonder what they BOTH now need???The Coach has finally caught up to where the Players were before he got here,and the Players have followed enough of the NHS to be fairly current but they cannot take it further on their own,both of these influences require a direct conduit to the NHS ASAP,if the momentum which was discovered at seasons end is to continue and evolve then there must be direct and immediate contact and co-operation.If the team doesnt pick up exactly where it left off and then some we will see changes that nobody might want to see now,it is what it is,when you least expect it Hockey proves the point that it is a Results based Business.It bites you in soft spots unexpectedly.Plan ahead Dallas and get your Ducks lined up ASAP.

FYI Colorado is using an Offensive NHS Modified Adjusted-Hybrid,so now you can use their tapes to compare yourself to them over the last 15 games or so and have steep contrast to learn from.

The Hawks used an NHS Modified Adjusted-Hybrid during their Cup run but have since regressed to a defensive Adjusted-Hybrid like Dallas was just learning to end the season.

Roy copied Bowman who realised LA had copied the Oilers and the NHS to win his Cup so he copied Krueger who had copied Moma2s NewAge Hockey System and won imself a Cup.Dallas copied the NHS and applied it only to the part of the game he fully understod the defense and created his own nifty partial-application,a misguided one but still an impactful one.

No matter how you try to parse things the Oikers had the NHS FIRST and didnt capitalise on the opportunitty,everything sincce then has been a game of catch-up,and at the end of 2014 the team barely reached the departure point of 2012-13.That is a wasted year.In the big picture it is 3-4 wasted years,because sooner or later the Oilers will have to endorse the NHS or become willing victims to teams who do endorse it.

Over each of the last 4 years the stakes have risen exponentially,next season will be a game breaker for many many men working for the Oilers like it or not,if the season is a write-off no Agent in their right minds would ask or advise their clients to stay in Edmonton any longer,not facing another 3-5 year re-building process as Dallas learns his trade.

The Elephant -in-the-Room question has ALWAYS been,what is the genrally accepted Head-Coach NHL learning curve? After how many seasons is it acceptable to expect average NHL head-Coaching results to manifest? Because boy oh boy you morons tagged that time period on top of the learnng curves of your extremely young and emerging roster.

Did you consider the baseline inevitable contractual impact of bringing in a raw Rookie Head-Coach who was destined to lose a baseline number of years before maturing? Of course you did ,so were you anticipating contractual negotiations with the core as a whole and planning to produce these results to save a few bucks down the rtoad as you continued to ammass high draft picks for a few more years?

I dont think anyone ever planned on keeping the core together,they lied plain and simple to buy time and decide how to cut up the pie,this has been an overt and sickening attempt to build a War-Chest of NHL level draft assets so an established high end defensive cornerstone could be traded for.The men were allowed to be beaten to crap for nothing.


I believe things are askew,and that Nuge has not been pegged as this teams on-ice general,this was one of the critical years of halls development the one where his cojones were suppossed to be trimmed,but instead Dallas developed a man-crush on him and things regressed.This is TWO years in a row of regressive development for Taylor Hall now and it is hurting the development of his linemates.Taylor has reached his ceiling as a winger now,he isnt going any higher without his linemates being optimally utilised.It was never possible,and delaying things was stupid on the Coaches.So what,now we have a PPG elite winger,just like we drafted,so what?Now that winger has a lot more pull than he is ready to handle,Eakins screwed up Royally,he hammered on Yakupov when he needed to be hammering on Hall.I have monitored possesion conversion rates and Hall is not performing optimally at all in fact he is holding the line back on many nights with six to ten bad decisions consistantly being made,I would even say there is a comfort zone of error that Eakins accepts and endorses.


I know how hard hall works and how driven he is and I am fully aware of how closely he follows the NHS and this is reflected directly in the things he does on the ice, but I also know that he has more to offer than we are getting,he has the ability to be nearly anything he wants out there but right now he isnt picking a role for himself,he needs to remember he is a winger and he is now a veteran one so he needs to focus on his craft off the wing more and allow Nuge to manage the lines tactical decision making,it is simply that Nuge is a master-mind and this cannot be denied,his subtle game will translate better into elite NHL niumbers than halls brash game will,as things are now Nuge is Pigeon-holed into being a second rate support for halls rambles,when he needs to be directing those playactions the entire time.Nuge needs to use hall as a tool not the other way around and \eberle needs to be corrected as well,he is not exactly helping matters,he is simply sitting in the weeds,Nuge needs LINEMATES and his wingers need to behave like NHL wingers so we can let Nuges talent take everyone higher than they have ever been to date.All Ebbs is doing is helping hall score goals,he isnt trying to produce himself he is cherry picking and both Hall and Eberle are hanging Hopkins out to dry most nights,leaving him with all of the dirty workk against the NHLs top lines,and Nuge has been beaten down by it,it is time to stop the BS.

You hearing this Dallas? Fellas?

There is a lot more work to be done than you think Gentlemen.There is very little time to prepare for next season.In my opinion you all dodged a Sliver Bullet this season keeping your jobs as far as Coaching and Managment goes,but if next season is another bust Players will be falling all over themselves to get out of town before their pocketbooks take to huge of a hit career wise. Once you get to that point you can add contractual and public battles to the list of challenges and it will essentially be time to implode the entire group,things HAVE in fact been taken to the precipice of utter disaster this past season,this is an area I was calling worst-case 4 years ago,and now we are here.I something epic isnt done this hollow shell of a super-structure will fall in on itself next year.Bringing in a stud D-man will not make the difference,Pronger was a mis-read,his style is no longer accepted in the NHL and he was simply a huge bully and a very good player who hurt guys with dirty borderline plays every game,there are no more prongers because the game doesnt allow it any more.Managments refering to obtaining a highend d-man is simple using this mis-read or pipe-dream to smooth things over with angry dissappointed fans.There are no Savior Stud D-men in the NHL anymore because that dominant style has been taken out by a properly actioned NHL rule-book the game has evolved.

i am afraid the olde school fixes arent going to work on this one fellas,good luck trying them.You have just entered the 1st OT period,it began when the last regular season game of 2013-14 ended,the clock is now ticking.Next season you START under more pressure than this past season if that is even imaginable to most people.

You will have to adjust the non-disclosure because I couldnt get the connection to work fellas,sorry I need to post here.

Be carefull because they have adjusted their n-zone exits,well both the traverses and the exit to be exact,they are trying to hit the o-zone with 3 men now instead of trying to break in with two at high speed,they have slowed things down so they can develop the lateral strength of 3 men entering the o-zone together.

They are doing this in reply to your stand-up defense,they are trying to create numbers advantages for themselves.

Just run interference in the N-zone by pressuring the puck carrier faster and harder from your side of the ice,try to keep one man back in the n-zone so he can challenge the hawks puck carriers HEAD -ON STAND-UP STYLE in the early or mid n-zone,this will have the same overall impact as the blueline stand-up.Do NOT let your d-men get caught on a bad standup play when they have 3 men strong entering the zone controlled and together,make sure your forwards are pursuing hard out of the n-zone and not allowing the 3 man lateral setups and strength.

The ONLY adjustment the hawks have made is a controlled and laterally stronger n-zone set-up and o-zone entry.


So no panic ,simply stand them up higher in the n-zone with a smart forward who is coming right at them from his own end of the ice, much earlier so they cannot hit your blueline controlled and organised laterally.Keep your d-men back together and have a forward swing back around and engage them in the n-zone skating up-ice instead of chasing them from behind as much,keep ONE forward in a position to do this n-zone playaction interference and you will stop their adjustments before they get completely under your skin and get you to make unneeded extra-adjustments knee-jerk.

Just stop them from being able to set up the slower controlled lateral zone playactions in the n-zone and do not let them enter your o-zone laterally strong with a numbers advantage catching you standing up to high,they would love to see short one zone 3 on2s happening,so your backchecking must be hard,keep the feet moving and the sticks on the ice.

Watch that give and go they are using with the forward entering the o-zone and giving it from the boards to the d-man then going to the corner for the relay and fast cross-ice pass to the baackdoor shot from the top of the circle on the right side.

Just watch their speed,they are slowing it down.The easiest way to take them out of their comfort zone is to speed the game up on them. Extended backcheck in two man units,with one man on the primary pass option all the time.Or any other small adjustment you want to make to hurry them up.

Essentially hurry them up and dont let them stage in the n-zone creating lateral strength in numbers.

The forecheck works great for disrupting Chicagos first d-zone exit,and that transition into the n-zone is what their System is based on.

Really a dedicated high energy forecheck that sends one man in to the puck directly and one man covering the primary pass option and forces them to hurry up their first d-zone exit play is all you need to do the throw them for a loop.

This is game 3 so you will need to come out in the 3rd with a lot more energy and physicality,taking the pucks to the net all the way.

This is the time in the series where you may pressure them more than usual,you will not get the chance again,so get on them and hit them hard and fast and speed this game up. Hit and RECOVER back into the playactions first,just make the contact fast and hard every time,dont let them dangle and use their skill sets,get right on ever man with the body and recover first,just fast and hard and EVERYTIME bodychecks.Try to put a nail in their coffin.Take it to them,it is time to open it up with the body now and grind them down.

The refs are jamming you so you need to take the pucks to the net,all the way in and keep your sticks on the ice,use the Power game now,the Hawks are to small to stop you if you bull to the net over and over,they will not be able to handle the pressure,just dont pass to much,drive it in instead on them the long hard way,protect the puck and go on long hard net drives.Hold the puck,posses the puck.make them come and get it and use your size to prevent,force the refs to make calls on them,keep driving the net hard so they have to use their sticks and take bad penaltys,force your way in hard and low looking for those high sticks that draw blood on as you close to their net to set them back for 4 minutes,anything can make the difference on nights like this one.


Get in their goalies face ASAP and stay there , set the tone for next game. Push them,make them know you want to finish them early if you can.

DO NOT make any major System changes beyond stopping their n-zone posturing,and try to do this by adjusting your forecheck,that is the most forgiving area to adjust during games as far as getting burned goes.Prevent the Hawks d-zone exit and speed it up and take away the n-zone as your system naturally does and you shut the hawks down.

Target their d-man who has taken on most of their suspended mans minutes,he will be tired now,hammer on him hard and try to expose him.

I think it might be Keith.

Whoever it is this was a bad game to give him extra minutes,match some fresh and fast legs with him and work him over,put your speed demon up against him and expose him,even a few extra minutes per game can expose players at the NHL level.