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Originally Posted by neo45
There was a thread at the start of the season, before the first game against the oilers where it was revealed that this awful new coach wanted Wideman to be on the top pairing with Giordano and wanted Brodie to play his offside Engelland. He also wanted Grossmann on the 3rd pairing to give us a slow defenseman on the ice at all times. I lost all faith in the coaching staff as soon as I saw that.
The game went exactly as expected. McDavid had his way with our team and we lost all confidence before we ever had a chance.
People can blame poor execution of players as much as they want but every indication so far is that we have a coach wth zero hockey sense at the helm. Have any of his experiments worked??
Further to that, have any of his experiments not been a massive massive failure?? It's very easy to point to a player or two after a loss and say "poor execution here". The star players haven't been put in a position to succeed because our coach seemingly has no idea how to use their strengths.
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I think the best parts of our team this year have actually been the pairs that Treliving brought up at the end of last year. Obviously Mony & Johnny haven't been working yet, but Bennett - Brouwer and Backlund - Frolik have worked as well as we could have asked together. Not like it takes rocket science to make those pairs though.