It always amazes me the lengths people will go to excuse poor coaching, we heard the same thing in the Brent Sutter days and even the Playfair days. In any other sport the coach is the guy that shoulders the burden for the overall performance of the team.
If you've got good musicians but a bad conductor the show won't be very good.
All the unpreparedness, confusion, lack of identity...that's all on the coach 100%. His job is to clearly outline expectations and also be a motivator. That should've been set in place weeks ago. There's no excuse for this team to be looking like it just started training camp.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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