[Ashasx]

To me, this quote encapsulates everything that is wrong with this coaching staff:

Darren Haynes‏ @DarrenWHaynes
Glen Gulutzan not happy with Gaudreau's turnover on GWG: "You can't turn back with three minutes left, you can't turn back. You have to play forward. You can't turn back. We needed to get points. We needed to take that into overtime and get the points. We're good at 3-on-3."

So, I understand the idea of getting to overtime for the extra point, but instead of actually trying to win the game, the coaches just wanted to eat out the last 5 minutes and simply hope nothing bad happens? Don't go out and try to win the game, because you might lose it for us? I feel like that's the motto of this team: "Let's hope nothing bad happens".

Just a complete lack of killer instinct. The team was dominating the Sharks in the 3rd. Why take your foot off the gas? Gaudreau was trying to create a play and was hooked (and if the officials were calling penalties as they are read in the rulebook, it should have been called a penalty), but of course Gulutzan instead wants him to dump the puck and freely give possession away, go to the bench for a line change, and probably put the 4th line on.

The coaches on this team are absolutely clueless. Special teams are awful (and why should we be surprised when Cameron operated the worst powerplay in the league when he was with Ottawa?) and they completely stifle creative and intelligent hockey.

If the coaching staff was more upset with their continued failures to try and get the powerplay working when they keep putting Brouwer on the top unit, maybe we'd actually start to see some progress.