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Originally Posted by djsFlames
I wish they had got Bruce Boudreau. The type of game he ran in Anaheim and now Minnesota was just what the Flames needed to implement to take the next step. The change up they opted for in a guy that knew the game but not how to be a successful coach was a step backwards, as intelligent and well-spoken as he appears to be. Systems don't matter if you're subtracting the heart in the process. You have to make the players believe, and push themselves, everyday. Culture, right?
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This team needs a head coach that's seen this before and knows what buttons to press. I didn't have any issue with him not bag skating the team as I understand the approach but it didn't work and in hindsight he probably should have bag skated them. I don't get paid to be right on these calls and he does. His management of the goaltenders has been questionable as well. You have Brodie playing on the wrong side and it just seems everything he's doing isn't working out that well. His system looks fundamentally better than Hartley's but the only players that seem able to flourish under it is the bottom six players as the skill players have looked rudderless from the opening face off in October.
It's going to be a difficult offseason for the Flames as on one hand you don't want to fire a head coach after only one season but I'm not sure how they will sell season tickets brining this guy back. Because the fanbase never embraced this hiring in the first place.