What makes Scheifele and Connor so tough to play against?

What makes Scheifele and Connor so tough to play against?

with Bruce Budro. Bruce, great start for Mark Shley and Kyle Connor. They’ve combined for six goals in the first three games. You coached against both of them. You also coached one of the best dynamic duos in the past two decades in Ovetkin and Backstrom. What makes this Shley Connor combo so tough to stop? Well, Gino, first of all, they’re they’re great hockey players. That’s always starting. But I tell you what, um, when it comes to Connors, he can shoot the puck and what you don’t see, his acceleration, his speed is as good as anybody in the league and, uh, he gets the shot away quick. Very quick. As far as Shley goes, Shiffley is one of those players that can do it all. He can pass, he can shoot, he can play any position, and, uh, to me, he’s the the perfect centerman. When Dale Howardchuk uh recommended him to Winnipeg when he was in coaching in Barry, I tell you, he knew what he was talking about because that’s a great center talking about a great center. And you know, nowadays it’s duos that make it. It’s used to be all lines, three guys, but now you find duos. This is one of the best duos in the NHL. I mean, I was lucky enough and I coached uh Backrom and Oveskin and we could put anybody on that line and they would go good because Nikki would always look for Alex. Alex would know where to go. And it’s the same thing with Shley and Connors. When Shiffley gets the puck, Connors knows where to to go into um that open space and he’s always looking for him. It’s a great duo, one of the best in the NHL and has been for years. I I’m glad to see they’re getting their due, you know, and the and the one great thing is to see them having a great start is fabulous because to me I we we want them to be healthy and I think if both of these guys are healthy this year, you are going to see some unbelievable numbers coming out of this duo from Winnipeg. They are indeed a great duo. Okay, let’s talk about the team itself now. The ABS, Oilers, Golden Knights, and Stars have all yet to lose in regulation. It certainly looks like the Jets are going to be in a seasonl long dog fight for playoff positioning. So, how does a coach keep a team in that fight for all 82 games without any costly letdowns along the way? Well, I think you know what you have to do is first of all, don’t ever use the word 82 games. You got to narrow it down and shortterm goals are the way to go because boy, 82 games sounds like an awful long time. We have to play good. But if we said, “Okay, let’s just do this week. Let’s win this week. Let’s play as good as we can. We’ve got three games. Let’s win the week.” And just keep going and going like that. Short-term goals is the key. If you make it too long, it makes it really sound an awful lot tougher to do. So, I mean, that’s the way I would promote this team. That’s the way I would promote every game. It’s just let’s win the week and we’ll be successful when the year years out year’s out. And coach, as far as the Jets goalending is concerned, Connor Halabuk is one and one with seven goals against in his first two starts so far. It took him five games to give up that many goals last season on route to winning six straight out of the gate.

What makes it so tough to coach against Kyle Connor and Mark Scheifele and how can Winnipeg’s coaching staff keep the team focused for what looks to be an 82-game fight for positioning in the Western Conference? TSN Hockey analyst Bruce Boudreau joins Domino’s That’s Hockey to share his thoughts.