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Originally Posted by Bingo
If this team was getting worked night in and night out I'd be with you guys on stagnating and and the wrong message and make a change.
But they're just not.
You don't have an issue with a team not following their coach when they routinely outplay the opposition.
They are on their way in my mind. I honestly think they are a game or a week away from a stretch (something like 7-2-1) that will put this whole discussion to rest.
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Their best stretch at home was when they looked pretty crap, and i believe the underlying stats stated as much.
Now they're stats look better, yet it's not translating to Ws.
What i see is a team that is ok 5 on 5, with pretty frigin ugly special teams play (yes, the Pk sucks too, it almost feels like a fluke that they don't get scored against rather than a strong puck pressure PK). A team that is extremely mentally weak, as soon as they have an inevitably poor PP they basically "Crumple" and are only able to figure out how to get momentum back once the game has already been given away.
Most of all i see a team that is a below average break out team, despite having arguably a top5-10 mobile/pucking moving d core. It seems they have
ONE means to getting the puck moving up ice, and if the opposition coach has half a brain to adjust, the flames will look completely ineffective and useless the rest of the night. There have been SO many games where the team looks like the team is braindead. I seriously don't believe it's for a lack of effort. It's a complete inability for the coaching staff to figure out a breakout play once the only strategy they employ is taken away.
The arguments/opinions i pose that this coaching staff is a below average one can be summarized as:
- Terrible special teams
- terrible breakouts
- terrible in game adjustments
Oh, and if this team fails to beat the oilers again this season, that would more or less solidify him as a deadbeat coach in my eyes, strictly from an emotional fan perspective.