[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by bubbsy

My first post was stating that a team that has a top 6 as strong as we perceive it to be (plus the top pairing and strong goaltending until recently) should have been enough to thrust this team into a playoff position.

You countered that the bottom 6 still has to play 1/3 of the time, to which I am stating that (perhaps incorrectly) that shouldn't the 2/3s of solid line play compensate for the weak 1/3.

At it's core, i feel the top line has been sufficient, especially gaudreau. I think the second line has not been great for much of the season, outside of tkachuk. The bottom 6 have been an offensive disaster.

i still blame the coach. we're approaching frigin 70 games into the season, where there is no secret that the depth is garbage. You have gaudrea/tkachuk who can drive their own lines, and then you have backlund/frolik who have a track record in 2 way play now. Use your frigin brain and TRY SOMETHING when things aren't working.

Leave the top line as it is. But how do we spread the wealth among the 2nd and 3rd line.

bennet - backlund - frolik
tkachuk - jankowski - brouwer/hathaway

Our idiotic coaching staff not even trying different combinations to spread out our A players to create some line depth is beyond me. I know it's rude, but i actually think this coaching staff is literally stupid/dumb. 65 games in, scoring depth has been a problem, top line scoring not so much, yet they have taken literally ZERO steps available in their arsenal (ie. nothing needed from the GM/Management) to try something different.

there's a pattern here. How long did it take to pull brodie off the top PP and put our most offensive dmen on the top PP point pairing?

Stubborn stupidness, that i can only hope costs them their job. Fail fast genius, if hasn't worked for 15-20 games, TRY SOMETHING different!

You go GG, keep shuffling lazar in and out. That's the magic key to what ails you and your team. can't wait till this genius is out of calgary.

Our idiotic coaches have major deployment problems all around, but particularly they rely on Crutches. When something works, they are absolutely terrified of trying something different. 3M is the biggest crutch of all for the coaching staff.