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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
I agree to a point, but the team is so weak mentally under GG. They weren't that way under Hartley, which is the only reason to truly want Bob back - when the third period started, no matter what the score, everything plus the kitchen sink was coming at you.
When they hit adversity, they fold. That's on the coaches.
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Sure they were just as mentally weak under Hartley, just at different points in the game, they had to continually make late game heroics happens because they were a slow starting team.
This is the same type of argument that people had when fondly reminiscing about the young guns era. Oh they weren't good teams but they worked hard. Yeah, no their work ethic wasn't all that special.
This teams problems go far beyond coaching and calling time out. And this is what happens to teams with a lot of talent, and this team has a lot of talent and good pieces. There's that mystical element of something is missing here, and I really don't know if it can be fixed by bringing in a sniping right winger and another forward. This is a team that literally swallows its tongue when its having success in a game. This is I believe a team that believes too much in its talent and not enough in having to bear down on the game.
I have this kid that plays running back for me. He's that tiny kid but he's just a unbelievable athlete and he's got a mean streak. He's one of those players that I'm confident in saying at 14 that if he could over come his small size he's got college ball written all over him.
He looks unbelievable in practice, but he's so talented that he makes things look easy in practice. But when things fall apart they fall apart, because he doesn't know yet how to work on doing the things that at times come easy to him. He doesn't know how to work for a catch, he doesn't know how to work when the lanes close.
thats the Flames, the team that because they don't know how to turn it up in the face of adversity, and don't know how to stop worrying when things go in the crapper have become the ultimate example this year of the team that can't put teams away and when the going gets tough they panic and do stupid things.
They're basically a death star with a thermal exhaust port that's 100 feet square and above the main exhaust port with a sign that flashes and says fatal flaw.
And as much as we think a time out, or a line change or a coaching change is going to change that, I don't believe it will.
This comes from inside the locker room, and I love Gio and his I'm doing it you have to do it leadership. But it starts with Gio and it starts with GG and getting a new coach isn't going to change the results. It isn't going to stop the Flames from clanging shots off of the post or into the goalies belly when they're leading by a goal. Its not going to stop Frolik from his play, or having players wiffing on the puck in their end or forcing a pass into the middle.
Those things aren't systems, they aren't something that a coach teaches or writes on the white board before the game.
I guarantee you this, change the coach, change him tomorrow, I doubt the results change all that much.