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Originally Posted by Bingo
Who "blindly" goes with the best defense pairing in the NHL and the second best possession line in the circuit?
That's going with your best, the five guys on the team least likely to be rattled.
I would have thrown something at my TV if he put out Stone/Kulak/Lazar/Stajan and Hathaway, but I'm never going to be upset if a coach loses using his best.
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No one disputes that they are, statisticly, the best 5 man unit to put out there.
But that is precisely why we shouldn't always rely on statistics to make our decisions. Hockey is an emotional game. Every single person in the building could feel the players' shoulders slump, could feel the momentum turn on them, and could feel the inevitability of the collapse.
You
have to call the timeout there. You have to do
something.
Gulutzan - AGAIN - simply allowed fate/emotion/momentum to roll over him and the team, without so much as an
attempt to do anything about it.
And that gets to the heart of why this team is so emotionally fragile and weak.