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Originally Posted by New Era
The talent is there. The coaching staff is not. Special teams is all about systems and working hard. The systems suck and that is the area of the game costing us games. Get real folks. Look at what average special teams would accomplish for this team. We wouldn't be dead last in GAA and we would likely be near the top of the division. Treliving deserves some heat for his decisions, but the personnel on the ice is not a problem. The guys on the coaching staff are third rate.
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This is spot on. I read so much about the players not executing. They're trying, but what they're asked to do isn't working. Do they complain? Of course not. Team players. They'll keep doing whats asked of them. But our coaches keep trying to smack that square peg into the round hole.
The head coach tries to gameplan against himself, and the special teams coaches would appear to be too stubborn to know what they're trying is never going to work.
I was willing to give all of these guys a chance. The Gulutzan hiring was odd but I trust Treliving. The Cameron hiring was very odd, but maybe we'd see something that pointed to Ottawa being the issue and not Cameron.
3 games in I realized we had a problem. A lot of us did. Radio guys and web guys made fun of the fan base for screaming about the coaches.
We were right.