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Originally Posted by BringBackStevens
Lavi's system is not really pond hockey. When its working the team can be quite tight defensively. But when you are constantly turning it over and not getting to pucks on the forecheck it's going to come back the other way on you.
For as much as I thought lavi needed to adjust his game plan and failed, what I really saw a lot of in this series was players making an awful lot of poor individual choices. When you play an up tempo drive up the ice style like this team does, there is little room for delayed and poor decisions. The Flyers from top to bottom were slow to make outlet passes and quick to force plays instead of making safe plays like you need to against a bottling team like jersey
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Flyers were 15th in turning the puck over this year...but 25th in creating turnovers...the failure with the system is the lack of pressure on the defensive side of the puck.
They were bit badly in the playoffs...only forcing 53 turnovers while coughing it up 100 times. The -4.3 per game differential was equal to Pittsburgh and LA for the worst in the postseason.