HOCKEY PROMPT
We are all about the "trick plays". Now, I put that in quotes because they aren't really tricks, but creative ways to think about the game differently. Think of the Sedins icing the puck to the other brother. No one did that before, now it's a play. What about the Datsyuk? Or Cale Makar cleverly NOT TOUCHING the puck when he's carrying it over the blue line to avoid an offside call? Some people would be enraged, I call it intelligence.
You need to be creative to come up with worthwhile ideas that could work, and don't leave you in an exploitable position. Utilize your players skills and ideas and figure out something that could work. You get the players to buy in this way, and it really makes you different from literally every other coach out there. They can all run traps and just push good players on the ice, but you need to achieve player buy in.
Sink or swim. Be aggressive and make a noticeable difference.