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Originally Posted by CMPunk
If they score 5, then put it down as a win and mix the teams up for the rest of the time
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As a coach, I totally disagree with this. I tend to use these kinds of opportunities to determine lineups, combinations and strategies that work well or show promise of chemistry for future purposes. I find that mixing up the teams is just a different way to waste time.
I suppose that if you're in a strictly 'fun' league or whatever then this would be fine though, but if there is going to be tough future competition I prefer to use my time to prepare my team.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
In my day we didn't have a mercy rule, you were expected to play hard til the end of the game. A good coach would tell you to forget about the score if you were getting blown away and play like its a close game. In terms of being a coach of the team doing the blowing . . . err . . . out, you start putting in your backups and give them time to play, or your 4th line on powerplay duty.
A mercy rule is stupid, you've paid for the ice/field/floor time . . . you might as well use it.
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I've seen different methods of not running up the score, like playing different guys, different positions, all that, like I mentioned above, I prefer to use the time productively. The part of the article that struck me the most true was where the boy felt bad about 'wasting time.' Because thats really all it amounts to. Waste the time until this debacle is over.
They should never be wasting time, use it productively any way you can.