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Jay IronHook
@JayIronHook
Out-Of-Market NHL analyst. 🏒 Studying & sharing #Preds visual analysis (see link below). 🔗 Vegetarian gym bro...Zdeno Chara's registered dietitian! ✌️
Feb 23, 2020 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
1/ With the NHL trade deadline a day away, I'll present a "road-map" forward for the Nashville #Preds.

Some may ask: "Who...are...you?"

Today they're a fan favorite line. But Grimaldi+Smith first appeared randomly, a year ago. I was the first/only to argue for their pairing! ☝️ 2/ What NHL analysts tend not to grasp about the #Preds is that they don't have a "franchise" forward (ie. McDavid, Matthews, Panarin, Kucherov).

To succeed, they have to take niche pieces & fit them in such a way that the "sum becomes a whole of the parts".

ie. Line Chemistry
Feb 21, 2020 • 16 tweets • 10 min read
1/ The Athletic & NY Times are considered "newspapers of record".

Meaning once humanity's extinct, aliens will be reading these sites...and their flawed justifications for coup's in the #Preds organization & Latin America!

But with GAME TAPE in orbit...the truth is out there 👽 2/ It may have escaped Mr. Vingan's notice, but the day he declared "Mission Accomplished" in George Dubya Jr. fashion...

...the #Preds lines had just blown up - in yet another iteration of Coach Hynes' top six experiment.

It's important to understand *why* that change occurred
Feb 3, 2020 • 16 tweets • 9 min read
1/ Stymied offense that looks done for? Games that seem all but lost?

Mahomes took care of it in Kansas. And I am telling you, GAME TAPE will take care of it here in Nashville!

We are going to goddam Disney Land...or "Muskoka Ontario Canada"....wherever hockey champions go! 2/ To recap the last GAME TAPE developments...we last discussed the prevailing "formula" that tends to bring out the most fluid offense possible.

The #Preds *partially* moved in this direction, securing 2 out of 3 wins last week. But we can do better...
Jan 28, 2020 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
1/ On Sunday's GAME TAPE thread (quoted below), I presented observations on balanced lines - and a formula for generating offensive chemistry.

In 'Part 2', I'll explain how Monday's needless loss to the Leafs is actually rooted in issues with the #Preds 2nd line… 2/ After two initial victories against Chicago & Winnipeg, the staff wanted to help a struggling #Preds 2nd line.

Unfortunately, their solution was something akin to a "Jenga" error. They began pulling the wrong pieces out of place - weakening the balance of the structure...
Jan 26, 2020 • 23 tweets • 14 min read
1/ Ignored calls & texts...just to study games on my NHL app. 🧐

Good news...this GAME TAPE thread will reveal the secrets of *HOCKEY LINE CHEMISTRY* 😇

Bad news...girl I liked - likes me less now. 😪

Sorry babe...trip to the Stanley Cup > trip to the Hakka restaurant 😈 2/ Some current context...

After two initial victories, Coach Hynes was concerned by anemic scoring & began mixing up offensive lines.

Thereby producing 2 *needless* losses. Since 2018, "anemic scoring" is just the nature of the #Preds beast...