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Originally Posted by sa226
First of all, this off season, I would be open to finding a new head coach.
Yesterday they had a guy from Winnipeg on the Fan 960 talking about the Jets and the differences from last year to this year. How last year the team was a disaster, a team that was supposed to be on the up and up turned into a boring tire fire that took tom many penalties. Not to mention crappy goaltending. This season they are in contender status.
He was asked why he thought that was. The guy said something that I thought was weird, but maybe there is some truth to that. He said that it seemed like it took the group of players a good 4 years to learn the system. That now things have come together, decision making is instinctual they all know what they have to do, they have to keep being told what to do. As well the consistency of Cheveldayoff sticking with his group of young players paid off.
I don't know if that is a bunch of hooey or not. But I see similarities between the Jets of last year and the Flames of this year. Its pretty easy to grab a pitchfork and join the angry mob, but I would not be surprised in the least if Gulutzan is back next season.
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I think there is something to this. The flames seem to be taking an extra half second to think about where they need to be, who they should be passing to, who they should be covering, etc.
GGs system is difficult to learn it seems and it’s appears that each decision comes with multiple levels of decisions and options they have to consider and it isn’t familiar to the players for whatever reason.
I still go back to what I said a few days ago about soccer managers
If a soccer manager gets hired to a team, he obviously has his tactics and systems that he wants to play, if he has the players that fit his system great, everything works, if he doesn’t have the personnel and the team won’t bring in players who’s skills are maximized in the managers system then successful managers adapt the system to ensure that it gets the most out of the players.
In the flames situation, and we argue his is circles here, there are certain players who just aren’t being maximized in this system, there’s some who are playing exceptionally well, but the team as a whole isn’t.
Systems shouldn’t be so rigid that you can’t adapt them, and if the system can’t be adapted then it’s not s good system.