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Originally Posted by transplant99
The leadership group on this club, including the coaching staff, are far far to accepting of mediocrity and missteps. There is never any accountability for the players...
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You hang around this board long enough and patterns emerge...
For a core of posters, the Flames struggle at the end of the Iginla era was not Brent Sutter and his coaching to blame, but lack of leadership, with the leadership of Iginla (previously one of the best captains in the league) and his Club-Med attitude (that wasn't the actual term thrown around, but the one used escapes me), undermining Brent's system. The Flames turn it around under Hartley, and it's chalked up to Giordano's superior leadership ("He was always Brent's true leader, and moving Iginla opened up the room to his influence"). With the Flames struggling again, it's now Giordano's lack of leadership that is undermining things...
Just as it's always the coach for some, for others, it always the players just not caring and trying hard enough.