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Originally Posted by N26
I've read several calls for a regime change at USA Hockey today after the US team's poor performance at the World Cup. For example:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/burn-do...071352744.html
Management and coaching are taking most of the flak and the Flames own Brian Burke is one of the names coming under heavy criticism. Essentially saying his 'old school' philosophies mainly regarding 'grit' and 'truculence' and 'blue-collar' have little to do with building winning teams in the current age.
While not a devotee of advanced stats I do agree with the basic principles such as 'possessing the puck more than the opposition leads to more wins'. While I believe both that Treliving is on board with this and that it is his team I feel there is no way Burke doesn't have influence in the team's direction. I can't figure out how much though. Is he just a media whore? Is he a clever misdirection the Flames use in the press? Is he having significant say in the team makeup?
So do we want Burke to take a solid bashing over his role in this Team USA performance in order to hopefully minimize his influence of the Flames on-ice product? Or do we think that last year would have gone better if "Bollig played more" |
This is very good news for the Flames, Burke is an idiot, who got lucky with the Ducks and won a cup. He is going to say something stupid about a prospect and he may lose the dam prospect, get this idiot away from the team.