Interesting stream of logic that Brent needed to adapt but the players didn't. Why should that be the case? Isn't the coach supposed to be the boss? Brent saw that this team wasn't good enough and that was the bottom line. No amount of adapting would have turned this team into anything more than a first round appetizer for a real team.
Interestingly we have a good counter factual in Bob Hartley. He seemed to adapt well enough, focused more on the offensive side. Where did that get the Flames? Yep still sucking.
Had Brent, with his focus on hard work, systems been here for the rebuild I speculate that we would have been just as appreciative of his approach as we are now for Hartley. The real problem was a rotten core.
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