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Originally Posted by flame^thrower
Who do you suppose will be coaching them? I would love to see this happen obviously, but there needs to be changes before we have any hope in hell of competing for the cup, nevermind winning it. To be honest, I have no idea which changes need to be done more, player personnel or coaching/management. My gut says the latter. Probably a bit of both. Either way I hope something is done, and hope we aren't sent back into another dark era.
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Coaching and Management isn't the problem. I think Calgary is a unique team dealing with real problems that if solved will be a wrecking ball in the next couple years. Tkachuk in the playoffs?! Jeez... I really like Coach G. He gets it. He has given EVERYONE a kick at the can to experiment with youth which is the answer in today's game. Spencer Foo. I already like. His interviews are excellent.
I think it's just patience and synchronicity in a rapidly changing NHL.
People underrate how hard it is to implement a sophisticated and flexible yet robust System day in and day out. When the Defense doesn't click with talented young forwards that we do have to adapt to different teams every night. We're gonna have blatant break downs. Which have been masked by Smitty. Kulak has been a surprise. Considering we don't have a pure shooter on the team. It's hard to play the pure goal scoring game without one. But, pure goal scoring isn't the ticket. (See Washington and Tampa Bay.) Which makes the Flames so interesting in the future. We have such great young talent up and down the line up.
Short Answer: It's Systems *getting brilliant ideas onto the ice consistently* and the Team Leadership to buy into it. Monahan has to put the C on for the forwards...