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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
So forgive me but yeah, I do think great players need coaching. If anything, they need a higher standard of coaching, which could be why a guy like Scotty bowman is revered.
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The greatest individual athletes in the world all have terrific coaches. There must be a reason for that.
Few individuals can observe themselves in a completely objective way. Here and there, yes. But someone watching from "outside" often sees things that person does not. My favourite Clara Hughes - a fine athlete and a finer person - had coaches, too. Why? To make herself better. To drive harder. To see things she couldn't or didn't.
The complexity in hockey is combining the individual with the team. Someone mentioned back a bunch of posts about Sven playing too soft a game, passing before he ventured into tough areas - two things that make it difficult to be a great hockey player - and to build a winning team. Those are things that the coach rightly can crap on. Personally I think it's better done privately, but sometimes calling a player out in public works, too.
And really, unless someone here is "in the room", none of really have any clue what's really going on.
And please - for the person who used the word "hate" to describe Hartley vs. Baertschi , well, how about toning it down to "is bothered by"....there really is too much REAL hate in this world to let that go by quietly (at least for me).