Patrick Roy’s one-on-one work with players paying off for Islanders
When Patrick Roy was playing, he never wanted the goalie coach to show his mistakes in front of the team.
He preferred to go over that tape in private, where his errors wouldnt be on display to all his teammates watching.
So as a coach, Roy makes a point of one-on-one film work to examine spots where his players need to iron out their games.
First of all, there is that structure part with what you want. And then after that, who loves to be seen on a negative clip in front of his teammates? No one likes that, Roy said following Fridays Islanders practice. So I prefer to do one-on-one and see the correction that I think needs to be made.
Is it more work for me? Yeah, it is. But Im here to work.
Roy has already mentioned working privately with Oliver Wahlstrom and Pierre Engvall, among others, and the results are coming.
Wahlstrom looks more confident than at any other time this season and was involved in a goal in Thursdays win over the Lightning when he cleared out space in front of the net before Noah Dobsons shot bounced off a Tampa defender and in.
Islanders coach Patrick Roy has worked privately with Pierre Engvall, and it has started to pay dividends. APEngvall will take a two-game point streak into Saturdays match against the Flames his first time with points in consecutive games since Nov. 30-Dec. 2.
Hes been showing a lot of film for me, Engvall told The Post of his work with Roy. Weve also been talking a lot about the ways he thinks our line can work better. Small details but they make a big impact.
Engvalls line with Brock Nelson and Kyle Palmieri, by the way, produced a 70.6 percent expected goals rate against the Lightning.
I think a lot of it comes down to being a little bit harder on the puck, Engvall sid. Being more aggressive all over the ice, play a bit harder. I think the last two games here weve been working really hard as a line to win the pucks back. Just staying on top of the guys. And its fun playing out there.
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Check out more newslettersAs for Wahlstrom, Roy wants him playing physically, but with purpose not merely throwing his body around.
Hes all about on forecheck and things like that, dont let the guy beat you in the battle or up the ice, Wahlstrom told The Post Thursday. Its on you when you want to finish or not, but just make sure you dont let that guy beat you up the ice. He wants you to dig pucks out and play offense. Its awesome.
Its rare in the NHL for a head coach to take time to work with individuals the way Roy has. But he is trying to build a system midseason that asks the Islanders to change a lot about their identity, which is no easy task.
Even if you tried to make it probably 80 percent of the guys understand exactly what Im looking for. Sometimes theres just 20 percent that they think they understand, Roy said. So its just nice to take the time one-on-one and making sure that they do understand exactly what youre looking for.
If it wasnt already clear from the way the Islanders played during the 6-2 win over Tampa on Thursday, Roy confirmed that players have reacted to the sessions exactly how he wants them to react.
I never see any bad response, he said. I always felt like the guys enjoyed that. Im there to help them. Im there to help them become the best version of themselves. So I feel like weve been doing this in junior with the Quebec Remparts, the guys love it. I feel like its the same thing for them.
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