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Originally Posted by Red

GG has made a lot of strange decisions.

He plays Brodie on his weak side because of how we shoots. Like anyone cares about Brodies muffin of a shot. The shot isn't why coaches like players on their natural side. It's about ease of zone exits, protection of the puck on the wall, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaeh11uw0gg

Move Brodie off the first PP. Stone and Hamilton can shot yet they are not on there. Perhaps he feels like their first unit PP is not built around point shots, when they have Monahan and Gaudreau. And Hamilton's shot isn't the big slapper, it's a hard wrister, like Monahan or Ferland can do already.

Bartkowski should have not been on the tram period. Why keep him so long? Bart was better than Kulak in camp, and a more experience guy and he was given a chance to play himself out of the early slump. He only got 8 games, which isn't a whole lot (though he went back in with the Hamonic injury, which is different)

Bennett at C. Bennett played C most of his career, was drafted as a C and was in the long term plans as a C. When he was played at wing early on, posters were clamouring for him to play C.
Stajan on the team. Earned it. You don't chuck a vet who's contributed that much without giving him every opportunity. Plus, until the Glass waiver,
there wasn't a chance to replace what Stajan does bring (especially in the faceoff circle)

Rolling 4 lines regardless of score. auto pilot coaching. A popular narrative but not actually true. Different game situations, and shift lengths sometimes dictate who plays even in end of game situations.

Passive D that gives up the blue line. Is it working? Don't see it. Flames give up a lot of goals. The Flames could play more aggresive D, but I don't think giving up the blue line is the issue. It's bad decisions, or being flatfooted.

Brouwer on PP. Not really an issue, and it worked pretty well last year. Now changed for Tkachuk or Ferland

And why are changes being made only after this board mentions it? Is he reading this board for ideas? Seems to happen a lot. Really strange. Strange that people see things the same eventually, except that he';s not as knee jerk about it?)

I like that the team is winning some games, but when the going gets tough we will need an actual game plan rather than Smith's heroics. Can GG deliver in the playoffs? I don't feel like he can.

Pretty much none of those are "strange" decisions, for the bolded reasons. A few of them are not true.