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Originally Posted by nik-
Again, I don't understand this comment. The coach is perceived (rightfully in my opinion) to be poorly handling the roster. Playing bad vets over youthful replacements, assigning an unfair level of accountability to the team (after speaking about meritocracy) and then saying unprofessional things about prospects. No one is mad because we're losing under Hartley, people are annoyed at his management of the team.
What does that have to do with not knowing how to survive a rebuild?
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Because there will be 3-5 highly touted prospects that will be in focus in the next four years, of which 25% will go on to their lofty expectations and the rest will come up short.
As the Dustin Boyd caper of 7 years ago would suggest, the failing of any of these prospects will largely be blamed on the coaching and management with about 4% coming in pointing fingers at the player himself.
I hope Baertschi develops into a great player but if he was sat down because of his backcheck on Saturday it wouldn't have shocked me. That was hockey 101 and he botched it.
I'd imagine that would be pretty annoying for coaches that had taken him through film over and over.
We teach 11 year olds which man you track, this isn't an NHL concept.