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Originally Posted by Fan in Exile
Sure, a few changes may have made some minor differences but we have consistently had the worst special teams in the league over 64 games.
Some people never ever want to look at coaching. Some people always blame coaching. Surely there is some reasonable space in between and when your special teams are consistently bad over a period of a complete season or poor to terrible over several seasons with the same coaching staff but with a fairly considerable turnover of personnel, it is definitely the time that coaching got a rigorous assessment.
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I agree with you here. When Bob Hartley won the Jack Adams he said(paraphrasing) that it is his name on the trophy, but it is a team award in recognition of the entire team. The same way when a team is changing the coaching staff, it is an 'award' that is earned by the entire team. The same thing happens when a goalie gets pulled - someone has to take the blame, in order to keep that players accountable.
Now I am not saying that a coaching change is necessarily the right solution; however, something is definitely getting lost in translation between the message the coaching staff is sending and the results on the ice this season.