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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Sure, they could be worse. But they should be better. You seem to be satisfied with mediocrity. That's your choice, of course, but that does not mean the rest of us should be sharing your complacency.
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I think fans have been patient but when we see our GM go all-in in the offseason it's reasonable to expect that the organizations expectations are of higher than mediocrity fans are justified to follow suit. I can guarantee that Treliving and Burke expected a mid to high conference finish and at least a playoff series win after trading away most of the 2018 draft. As of today just after US Thanksgiving they sit outside the playoffs and while it's still early we are in season two of Gulutzan and this team still hasn't shown any semblance of consistency or prolonged strong play and that's with the benefit of being one of the healthiest teams in the league to start the season. I'm starting to get a little impatient hoping that he will get the team going as sooner or later as we are year one into a three year window where this team as we see it today will be dismantled. An expansion team is leading the division for crying out loud and the division is ripe for a team to step up and take it. Unfortunately there's no indication this team can rise to the occasion and unlike others here I simply refuse to patiently hope for improvements especially when the head coach is so inflexible and rigid in his beliefs. When a coach does everything the same all the time and the results are always mediocrity how are fans supposed to see light at the end of the tunnel? We know he's not going to change as he's going to keep with his left/right handed defensive pairings. He's going to keep Brodie and Hamonic together. He's going to keep rolling all four lines deep into games. Etc, etc, etc. What are you optimists really expecting that's going to change?
Glen Gulutzan is not the worst coach to ever lead this team. Far from it but my god he's by far the most frustrating head coach I have ever seen in any sport. He doesn't want to win at any cost. He wants to win his way and only that way and it's just going to lead to failed expectations and constant frustartion for the fans.