I'll go as far as to say that the coaching for this team was not just bad, but outright brutal. I won't get into what defenceman should have been playing and what lines they should have been on as I am biased towards Brodie but taking a look at the forwards...
Matt Read getting more ice time than Skinner (can't find official TOI numbers so just going on what I saw). Eberle and Hall receiving as much ice time as they did while doing very little? Duchene carried that line through the whole tournament and since he wasn't on their line today it really showed how bad they had been.
Perhaps I'm alone in this but some really head scratching decisions by the coaching staff.
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