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Originally Posted by Textcritic
If it happens a few times, or even half the time, then that looks like bad luck to me. When it happens nine times out of ten, I think it is completely reasonable to posit that he contributes to the problem.
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I agree with you, it's hard to imagine that it's a coincidence. It's like flipping a coin ten times and having it come up heads every time. So he must be doing something wrong, I guess? I just don't see what it could be. Maybe he has some nervous emotional energy that his players pick up on, or something similarly unquantifiable.
But that still doesn't really make sense, because then you'd expect them to be outshot and outpossessed. And they aren't. Boudreau teams tend to outplay their opposition, even though that opposition, being playoff opposition, is usually pretty damned good. And their opponents end up with absurdly high save percentages, or get every bounce offensively. It's hard to imagine what he could be doing to produce that result.
So maybe he DID just flip a coin ten times and lose all ten. The odds seem astronomical but I have trouble thinking of what the alternative explanation could be.