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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
If our star players were playing like stars, the Flames would have a winning record. The problem is the top players, not the coaches.
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Top Players do need to step up.
Our bright spots in the season so far have been our middle 6/bottom 6 players. Backlund, Frolik, Brouwer and Stajan have looked good. But if these are your top players, we are ending with the correct results
5,7,13, 23 and 27 are getting paid the bucks which they honestly are not living up to right now. That can be blamed on the players, but it is also up to the coaching staff to find ways to get the players to perform. it is a systematic issue. It might not even be the actual systems, but the process of teaching the system is either not successful or is taking long.
I still think it is too early to pull the plug on the coaches and the top players will turn it around soon enough, but the problem is more the preparation, which the coach shares responsibility for