Good Morning, Islanders Country.
Sometimes, when you're looking for an answer, you search everywhere else before you take a look at what's right in front of you. Patrick Roy hopes that the stat sheet handed to him after Tuesday’s 4-1 loss was that.
Roy seemed to have an “aha!” moment before meeting the media, talking about how the seven Islanders players averaged more than 50-second shifts compared to just one (Seth Jarvis) for the Carolina Hurricanes.
You can look at all the underlying numbers via Shift Chart (bless those who build these tools for us to play with). Here’s a screenshot of the data:
How do you make the team more consistent, energetic, and efficient? According to Roy, it all came down to shift time against the Canes “If you want to be consistent in the intensity, that’s a good wake-up call for me… you can’t have long shifts,” Roy said. “You have to keep your shifts short, and that gives a rhythm to your team… everybody is rolling, everybody comes to the ice a lot. You’re not staying two or three minutes on the bench before you get your next shift.”
