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Originally Posted by Tinordi
"Coach being outcoached" is one of the lamest tropes in hockey.
A) What does it even mean?
B) How could credibly you quantify it?
c) How could you credibly state it when you've never worked as a coach in a professional league?
d) It always simply correlates to team x losing and you're simply trying to make up reasons to explain that loss
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Bylsma got outcoached by AV because AV was able to coach Lundqvist to play better and Bylsma's coaching didn't make Crosby play as well
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I'm seeing some Moon'esque posting from you as it's clear you don't like Shero and like Blysma and it's black and white. That's fine and all but Blysma hasn't done a good job coaching in the playoffs end of story. Whether it be the ridiculous run and gun series with the Flyers or terrible misuse of Iginla and line juggling last year a lot of the wounds have been self inflicted. How do you shut out a team two games in a row for a 3-1 lead in a series and not be able to get your team to even play hard for the next three games? You can't really pin this latest loss on Fleury as he wasn't that bad. Either Malkin, Crosby, Neal, Letang, etc are bad hockey players or the coach isn't getting them ready to play hard enough to battle through the playoffs.
Lets not forget the Penguins have lost to a lower seed in the playoffs every season since winning the cup. Every single season and in most of those series looking pretty bad. They barely beat the Islanders and Jackets in successive first round series which goes to show how their play in the playoffs is a major issue. How can that not be on the coach to a large extent?