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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
We put ourselves out of playoff contention in October last season due to league-worst goaltending. But with dramatically improved goalies this year, we are all of one point better through five games because the entire team is a mess. And it is clear that everybody is still so focused on figuring out whatever the hell Gulutzan wants them to do that they are messing up even the basic fundamentals.
So we're a hot mess just as our schedule is about to become dramatically more difficult. Great.
Though I do love Gulutzan's PP strategy of having the puck carrier rush up to the attacking blue line, only to drop the puck back to a player on our own blue line. Because gaining the zone when the opponent already has four player stacked and three or four of our own guys are now stuck standing around adding to that traffic jam sure is proving effective.  |
You are like me in that you are skeptical of the coaching hire. I get that but your response doesn't mirror the majority of posts around here that are calling out players left and right. Calling them garbage, etc. I am very concerned that the head coach doesn't seem to have a system that the players can grasp or if he even knows himself what type of system fits this team but some of the mistakes we are seeing are not entirely the fault of the coaching staff. It seems like the team was pretty engrained in Hartley's system and are having trouble grasping a different system. This isn't uncommon so I think we all need to accept that the growing pains are likely going to put the team behind the 8-ball and hope that in the coming weeks the team gets things together and plays the way Treliving envisioned the team playing under Gulutzan.
I will repeat the fact that I didn't and don't like this coaching hire but regardless of my feelings I don't want Gulutzan to fail because that will only serve to set this franchise back. I'm hoping for better but if it doesn't happen and this is a miserable season I will shift my focus not to Gulutzan but the man that hired him because I still would like an answer from the GM of why a head coach with a top 5 winning percentage all-time was not even interviewed for the job. This organization has only had two really good head coaches in its Calgary existence and I'm getting tired of GM's hiring the wrong guy for the job over and over.