First order of business:
NO ATTEMPTS AT PUCKS HIGH OFF THE GLASS.
All joking aside, it seems like given the circumstances he did a great job with the team this year. I'm excited to see what he can do with a full season and a (hopefully) healthy roster.
Second order of business:
5 FINGERS, 5 PLAYERS. THIS IS NOT HARD.
Joking aside, and I know both of these were an issue, but how much of the increase in both of these do you guys think can be attributed to the change in coaching/playing style in the middle of the season. Less so with the too many men stuff, I guess, but I sort of feel like a lot of the delay penalties could have been due to the big change in defensive zone philosophy of getting the puck out of the zone faster and more aggressively. It seemed like a big shift from Claude, where instead of throwing it up the boards, they would so often go back and forth behind the net, maintaining structure over aggressiveness, until they could make the "safe" play out of their own zone.
Do you guys think this is something that can be cleaned up with a full pre-season's worth of practice under Cassidy?
And on topic, I love this. I thought the team played well, and was really exciting to watch under Cassidy, and I'm looking forward to a step forward next year.