![]() Once again, that is a notable increase from the year prior. With Blashill this season, the Lightning allowed 3.49 high-danger chances per game over the course of the year. With LaLonde in Tampa from 2018-19 until 2021-22, the Lightning allowed 3.0 high-danger chances per game over the course of a season just once (2021-22), but finished at 2.52, 2.53, and 2.18 in the three previous seasons, starting in 2018-19. But there’s another measure for difficult shots: high-danger chances allowed. It’s still important to limit them, of course, as they’re arguably the hardest shot to stop. At worst, a team will allow four to five of them per game. Now, tipped shots are a small part of a game. Other Trends For Tampa Bay Lightning Jeff Blashill Meanwhile, in the four seasons as Lightning assistant, the LaLonde structure allowed 3.4, 3.6, 2.5, and 3.4 tipped shots on net per game. That’s 3.92 tipped shots on goal per game. Since 2015-16 through to 2021-22, the Red Wings allowed 2,105 tipped shots on goal across the 537 games that Blashill coached. However, joining the Lightning and seeing those results, it’s hard not to raise an eyebrow at his time with the Red Wings. ![]() Now, the Red Wings did possess some terrible rosters for a few seasons with Blashill. They lost Ryan McDonagh and Jan Rutta, promoted Nick Perbix and eventually Darren Raddysh, and brought in Ian Cole, Haydn Fleury, and Phillippe Myers. But, this could have just been because Blashill was joining a new team, implementing a new system, and with a group of defenders that saw turnover themselves. To face nearly one whole tipped shot more per game than their previous worst with LaLonde is pretty significant. That’s 4.4 tipped shots on the net per game.īefore this season, since LaLonde became an assistant in 2018-19, Lightning goalies never saw more than 281 tipped shots on goal combined in a year, and never more than 3.6 tipped shots per game in a full season. How bad was it? This season, the Lightning allowed 363 tipped shots on goal between Vasilevskiy and Brian Elliott. Far too often did Vasilevskiy face traffic and tipped shots. So, let’s take a look at the biggest problem this season: traffic and tipped shots. So did LaLonde when he was on the Lightning staff. He ran structures and defensive game plans. So, what did Blashill do? How is he a part of the problem? Tampa Bay Lightning Jeff Blashill’s Defensive Systemįirst, let’s specify, Blashill took over the defensive side of the team. But they would get knocked out by the Leafs in the first round, as everyone knows. Now, the Lightning are a considerably stronger team than the Red Wings, as evidenced by their three consecutive Finals appearances. Meanwhile, Blashill assisted in the Lightning going 46-30-6 this season. Despite the influx of youth like Tyler Bertuzzi, Moritz Seider, and of course, Dylan Larkin, Blashill couldn’t wring out more than 33 wins in a single season since the first year. That season was his first as the head coach, and it was right when a massive roster turnover took place in Detroit. Blashill led the Red Wings to the playoffs just once, and they were bounced in five games. That was good enough for a 0.447 points percentage. His overall record as head coach of the Red Wings was 204 wins, 261 losses, and 72 overtime losses. When that tenure ended, he was promoted to head coach of the Red Wings until he was fired in 2021-22. From 2012-13 until 2014-15, Blashill was the head coach of the Red Wings affiliates, the Grand Rapids Griffins of the AHL. In 2011-12, he started his NHL coaching career as an assistant with the Detroit Red Wings. Tampa Bay Lightning Jeff Blashill Part Of A ProblemĪssistant coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning Jeff Blashill has a long record as a coach. Today, we look at the new assistant coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning Jeff Blashill. But, upon beginning this deep dive, there was more than just the goaltender that had problems. A few weeks ago, Last Word looked at Andrei Vasilevskiy’s potential weakness that was exposed by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the playoffs.
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