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Originally Posted by opendoor
There are a bunch. Most notably this playoffs was their insistence on feeding an injured Bieksa huge minutes while cutting back the minutes for the Hamhuis-Garrison pairing despite the latter being absolutely dominant at ES this year. When that pairing played with the Sedins this year at ES they outscored the opposition by a 5:1 ratio. Instead of continuing that though they basically chained the Sedins to the Bieksa-Edler pairing and predictably disaster ensued when they were on the ice.
Not to mention some of the special teams decisions and PP setups were just asinine and in general the team's whole system had been picked apart to the point that it was largely ineffective. The PP especially has been an absolute joke for the last 1.5 years (it's operated at about 13% in that span) which is a pretty big black mark on the coaching staff given the players they've had to work with.
The players deserve a share of the blame, but it's hard to win in the playoffs against good teams when the coaching staff makes basically no adjustments and feeds ice time to less effective players. Their complete lack of a focus on discipline and unwillingness to clamp down on embellishment has particularly hurt the team. Again, the players deserve a big share of that blame but if the coaching staff wanted to prevent that stuff they could've.
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Fair enough.
As an opposing fan I would want Garrison on the ice as much as possible but if he is taking Bieksa off I guess it would be a wash. Ideally a Garrison-Bieksa pairing would be awesome in my view.
I think it is about 90% Sisters fault and maybe 10% coaches fault in regards to the second paragraph but I understand wanting to protect the guys you still have on your team and try and take blame off them as much as possible.