Systems<\/p>\n
The Devils have won three straight games. And more importantly, they\u2019ve looked like a dominating force in those three games. They controlled vast majority of the play. They\u2019ve generated a lot of high-end scoring chances. They\u2019ve tilted the ice heavily in their favor.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve looked like, well, what they\u2019re supposed to look like.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spent a lot of time over the Olympic break looking at our game and we\u2019re we can get better,\u201d Keefe said. \u201cNever at any time was I concerned about our system or how we play or my philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keefe also spent his time looking back to his days coaching the Toronto Maple Leafs to see if the system and philosophy still held up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI looked at my four full seasons in Toronto. Offensively we finished \u2013 in terms of expected goals and scoring chances \u2013 fourth, third, second and second,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, I know that the structure and how we want to play is there, but it wasn\u2019t happening with greater enough frequency. That\u2019s on me to put our guys in better situations and cue them to up the frequence of those opportunities where we have more speed on the rush and more numbers on the rush. That\u2019s been a big focus of ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keefe also watched film on the top offensive teams in the league. And what he noticed was that the film didn\u2019t look much different from his own club.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe clips look the same,\u201d he said. \u201cThey look the way we want it to look, but the frequency hasn\u2019t been there nearly enough. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve been pushing for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Systems The Devils have won three straight games. And more importantly, they\u2019ve looked like a dominating force in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-490112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-newjersey","13":"tag-newjerseydevils","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116185053948881653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}