Unique look at it, but I totally understand it and agree. There is totally chaos most of the time on the ice especially in scrambles in front of the ice.
With you being a goalie, what would you say the goalie is in this chaos?
And on Miro, I almost see him as a chaos coordinator.
This is similar to a theory I had that the game is about mistake progression, and what separates the elite, good, and not so good players is how they are able to progress through mistakes in any given shift. I likened it a bit to the QB position in football, where good NFL QBs have to be able to read through their progressions in quick succession and make the right decision instantly. The NHL version is more fluid, but essentially players have to read through progressive mistakes and react to each one correctly, rather than thinking about it too much, over-anticipating, or just retreating into defensive posture. Basically you watch any of the top chaos controllers and creators, and they are all losing the puck 4-5 times per shift, whether because of a bobble, a missed pass, a stick check etc, but what separates the best from the rest is that your McDavids, MacKinnons, Kucherovs, Pastrnaks etc are all stepping right into the next progression and making the right read there, and if you can stack enough correct mistake-reads on top of each other, you are going to end up with the puck on your stick in a position to score. It's why outcome evaluation in hockey can look a bit weird, because all of these guys are making a ton of micro mistakes all of the time, but the good players process quickly and just keep moving in the right direction, while the less good players react to their mistakes by thinking about them and peeling out of the mistake area.
Makes me think of the quote from Harley something along the lines of how almost 100% of the time an NHL player is going to make the right decision but the difference in the game is exploring the 1%. Is your job to drive the percentage up for your team (controller) or down for the other team (creator)?
Don’t forget the chaos anticipators! They predict it before anyone else.
Unique look at it, but I totally understand it and agree. There is totally chaos most of the time on the ice especially in scrambles in front of the ice.
With you being a goalie, what would you say the goalie is in this chaos?
And on Miro, I almost see him as a chaos coordinator.
This is similar to a theory I had that the game is about mistake progression, and what separates the elite, good, and not so good players is how they are able to progress through mistakes in any given shift. I likened it a bit to the QB position in football, where good NFL QBs have to be able to read through their progressions in quick succession and make the right decision instantly. The NHL version is more fluid, but essentially players have to read through progressive mistakes and react to each one correctly, rather than thinking about it too much, over-anticipating, or just retreating into defensive posture. Basically you watch any of the top chaos controllers and creators, and they are all losing the puck 4-5 times per shift, whether because of a bobble, a missed pass, a stick check etc, but what separates the best from the rest is that your McDavids, MacKinnons, Kucherovs, Pastrnaks etc are all stepping right into the next progression and making the right read there, and if you can stack enough correct mistake-reads on top of each other, you are going to end up with the puck on your stick in a position to score. It's why outcome evaluation in hockey can look a bit weird, because all of these guys are making a ton of micro mistakes all of the time, but the good players process quickly and just keep moving in the right direction, while the less good players react to their mistakes by thinking about them and peeling out of the mistake area.
Makes me think of the quote from Harley something along the lines of how almost 100% of the time an NHL player is going to make the right decision but the difference in the game is exploring the 1%. Is your job to drive the percentage up for your team (controller) or down for the other team (creator)?