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The Morning Practice, err, Skate |
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Pretty intense morning "skate" which actually resembled a practice at Skate Zone as Peter Laviolentte began his first day on the job for the Flyers.
It was a hard skate - 40 minutes _ for a game day.
He incorporated some of his systems but not all of them, he said, because he was worried that if he "overwhelmed" the Flyers' players with so much before tonight's Caps game, that he would see them "freeze" on the ice.
“Just some things, you want to start putting some little pieces in, here and there, to create an identity you are looking for as a coach,” Laviolette said of what he was trying to do. “You can’t climb that mountain in one day. But you can start that. We wanted to make a couple tweaks.”
Arron Asham told me he had his best year - 15 goals _ under Laviolette on the Island.
“He’s a guy who is big on puck possession,” Asham told me. “He wants us to play offense. We have a pretty offensive team here. I think it will only help us.
“He wants pressure on both sides on the forecheck. He has the first guy coming in hard and the second guy reads off that. He’s has the d-man pinching down. He wants the puck back, he wants it in our hands."
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