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Jagger · 02-24-2010, 01:59 AM

Babcock is a fine coach with excellent credentials. He's certainly not the ###### that some of you are portraying him as.

I remember watching his Red Deer College team on my first visit to Canada WAAAY back in 1989 IIRC. They were a well oiled machine out there, obviously very well coached. His Spokane team were really tough to play against, again very well coached.

With that said, I have struggled with some of his decisions at the Olympics, thus far. His handling of Iginla has been baffling at best. His use of the struggling duo of Perry and Getzlaf is insane to my eyes. Pronger has been a pylon out there but is utilized at the worst possible times. I'm not sure why he has persisted with some of this madness. A little inexperience at this level where you pretty much have zero time to create chemistry and gel as a team perhaps?

I truly hope he sticks with his lines now. There's no point switching them up yet again when the Russians come calling tomorrow. Suck it up, Mike. You were wrong: you actually do need Iginla's goals, quite badly actually.

02-24-2010, 01:59 AM	#34
Jagger First Line Centre Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Red Deer now; Liverpool, England before Exp:	Babcock is a fine coach with excellent credentials. He's certainly not the ###### that some of you are portraying him as. I remember watching his Red Deer College team on my first visit to Canada WAAAY back in 1989 IIRC. They were a well oiled machine out there, obviously very well coached. His Spokane team were really tough to play against, again very well coached. With that said, I have struggled with some of his decisions at the Olympics, thus far. His handling of Iginla has been baffling at best. His use of the struggling duo of Perry and Getzlaf is insane to my eyes. Pronger has been a pylon out there but is utilized at the worst possible times. I'm not sure why he has persisted with some of this madness. A little inexperience at this level where you pretty much have zero time to create chemistry and gel as a team perhaps? I truly hope he sticks with his lines now. There's no point switching them up yet again when the Russians come calling tomorrow. Suck it up, Mike. You were wrong: you actually do need Iginla's goals, quite badly actually. __________________ "It's red all over!!!!"