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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
This is wrong. Gulutzen is awful at player selection. The system isn't causing Jokipakka to leave his man open or Johnny to gift a SH breakaway or Johnson to whiff on pucks. The system can only put players in the right spots and They have to execute. If the system was the problem, the flames wouldn't have outshot and outchanced every opponent during this slide. Gulutzen's system doesn't tell Johnny to bobble the puck in tight or Bennett to take bad penalties. It doesn't cause the goalies to have sub 0.800 save percentages. It doesn't make Chaisson miss the net on open cages on glorious 2 on 1 chances.
I hate that Gulutzen puts our higher producing pp unit on half as much as the lower producing one. I hate that Hamilton gets 5 minutes a night (6 minutes at 5v5) less that Wideman. I hate that Johnny plus Chaisson is a thing.
But to put it on a system that had actually worked is silly
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Perfectly stated.
The system is fine. It's essentially the same system as the Pens, Caps, etc. The same as Babcock's system. To blame the system isn't just silly, it exhibits a fundamental lack of understanding.
But that certainly doesn't exempt Gulutzan from the fire. I would add Brodie playing his off side to the list of strange (horrible) personnel decisions you noted above. He has failed miserably (and stubbornly) with those decisions.
This is only my opinion.