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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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I would be interested to hear what you expect the Canadian coaches should have done differently, and how it would have helped. For my part, I think Team Canada played very well, despite the score.
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Latvia did not win, yes, but they could have by one lucky bounce/shot/breakaway. My point is that this is too close. How do you explain that Latvia can do it with all the incomparably inferior talent and resources they've got? Canadian team has everything better than Latvian, you cannot argue that. I can only explain it by better coaching.
"How would you have done it?" - is not a fair question to a layperson. I am not a coach. All of the factors you've provided as a proof of Babcock's doing it right could be considered wrong just as well. Why bother amplifying all of the things that don't work well in a given situation instead of making some adjustments that might work better? What are the effective ways of splitting the defending players collapsed in front of the net? How do you make PP more effective? For every weapon there should be a counter-weapon.