Good for GG, but this can't all come from the coaches. The fact that he's specifically ripping the vets shows that there are problems more deeply rooted than just the coach.
Who's our Jonathan Toews or our Sidney Crosby? I doubt it's Giordano that he's ripping here, and Gio is often praised for his leadership, but who is going to take a Brouwer or a Hamilton or a Stajan or a Brodie aside for a weak-ass effort or for lack of dedication to winning and scream at them?
It cannot be the coaches all the time. They get tuned out, then they get fired, and as others have said, the mindset gets entrenched that you don't have to listen to the coaches. This team has been through a crazy number of coaches since Darryl went upstairs. It would be interesting to see how that compares league-wide.
If this team doesn't rattle off a good long 0.750 stretch and look like they consistently give a f*** during it, I can see a much bigger move than a coach firing coming.
My money is on Treliving knowing all this and knowing that firing Gulutzan is exactly the wrong thing to do to combat this problem.
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