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The Defensive Dallas Stars’ System Might Tell Us More about the Players than the Coaches

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First, I’ll start with this: I’m not here to break down the Stars’ system. You surely know, by now, what it is. The Stars don’t press as hard as they used to, because they’re more interested in disrupting the other team’s transition game than in establishing their own. To wit:

In hockey, everything’s related. That doesn’t mean a team won’t have a specific skill they excel at without its impacting their other areas—take a look at early 2010s Carolina and their shot differentials vs.