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Originally Posted by Duffalufagus
Lol at people blaming the coach for this.
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It's true that there is importance in the process over large sample sizes. But in a small sample size you have to do whatever it takes and smith should have been pulled after that third goal.
Coaches like Scotty Bowman, Joel Quenneville, Mike Sullivan, Peter Laviollette and Jon Cooper do squeeze every last ounce out their teams during a game and can manage a game at that micro level. Closest we ever had to that was Bob Hartley and we never really saw what he could do with defensemen that could skate and move the puck since we saddled him with Russell, Jokipakka, Engelland, Wideman, etc.
Coaches like Mike Babcock, Glen Gulutzan, Barry Trotz, Brent Sutter, are so obsessed with the macro level big picture - which is important - that their teams will always underperform, especially in big games.