At some point the onus has to be on the players after this long and 2 different coaches. If your teams defensive identity varies between "dominant" and "oilers level bad" because of which version of tj brodie shows up to play that night, it's not a good look. Hamonic hasn't been great, brodie has had a really rough year and a half now, hamilton is a very productive player but makes huge gaffes, they are finally getting some stability there, but the 3rd pairing has been a tire fire from a depth perspective until stone was moved there this season, etc
I really dont think gg is doing less with more. he's doing better with more and he certainly is getting better results than hartley did during his tenure. I am happy to see that their system in the d zone isn't simply to put your face in front of a shot and hope for the best. The degree of "better" the team actually is vs what you find acceptable seems to vary from person to person
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