[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by bubbsy

It's an identity issue.

Outside of Gaudreau, Brodie, Kulak and Stajan, why can't the rest of the players be relied on to play a heavier game.

I just think a team with Ferland, tkatchuk, Bennett, Hathaway, Monahan, Jankowski, Brouwer, Lazar, even Backlund/Frolik can play a more in your face style. Defensively, Giordano, hamonic, stone, heck even Hamilton could be grittier.

This team isn't made up of as many soft pieces. It's a group of players who literally have no identity as a team.

A coach like Sutter won't convert them to the big bad LA kings. I have little doubt another coach would actually create an identity and gameplay that rendered an actual 'tough team to play against' rather than just regurgitating the buzz words, only to come back time after time and confess this group just 'crumples'.

Who chose the coach ?

Either it’s the players or the coach . Either way it’s on BT