“Styles make fights.” That’s the old cliché in boxing. It’s a nice little heuristic for the rock-paper-scissors-like interaction between fighters, and how certain styles are naturally more effective against certain opponents before the first punch is even thrown.
Hockey has a similar corollary when it comes to systems. Systems make fights. Granted, hockey is not as violent. Usually. But you get the point. I’ve said a lot of disagreeable things about Ken Hitchcock, but I never said he was a bad coach (far from it). My argument — in so many words — is that he was using a roster of scissors as if it were a rock.