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Originally Posted by dustygoon
I'm one that doesn't care about what others think. Enough good things going on with Calgary for that not to be an issue.
I'm not an insider, but i've seen enough from my armchair to see that he is a weak coach. My massive anti-Carlyle feelings are centered around
1) terrible possession numbers. they are brutal and not inline with what BT says he desires.
2) Comes across as unintelligent in interviews. My opinion. Very subjective. I know.
Is he the type of guy that leans too much on vets?
I think it is such a step backwards to hire Carlyle.
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We are all entitled to our opinions on this of course, and we all have them. Coaching though, is a very interesting one. It's simply much harder to evaluate from an armchair, then player performance.
Sure it's fair to say we can evaluate game management (at least to some degree) from our spot in the stands. But outside of that, it gets tough. Well over half of their jobs take place behind the scenes, we simply don't get to see it. Then with the stuff we do get to see, it becomes increasingly subjective or hard to determine the drivers. Was it an execution issue, or a strategy issue. If it's execution, is it a motivation or teaching issue, or is it just the players. If we don't like the stats, how much of that is the coach, how much of it is the players failing, or how much is it on management because they don't have the right players, or the right coach player fit?
Not saying we shouldn't have opinions, but coaching is a lot tougher to have a fully "educated" opinion on. I'm also not saying you do care what other's think, but I do say a lot of what is going on here is based around what others think. Carlyle is an easy choice to "slam" from our rival fans. He lacked success in the biggest hockey media market, he's viewed as old school, won't check the "progressive / new NHL" check box we all like to attach ourselves too before we have a chance to see the results play out.
A lot of the hate for Carlyle from the Flames fan base falls into the category of "I don't know if he's good or not, but I know he'll be controversial in the media and our rivals will have lots of ammunition to tell us this hire is no good..........therefore I don't like it."