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Criticism is fine, but this post is so factually challenged.

Originally Posted by Firebot

Calgary's bottom 6 is not the reason why the Flames are out of a playoff spot.

Forcing Brodie on the wrong side for a full 2 years Brodie's mistakes are not from being on the left, plus who do you want to play out of position in response?
Playing Brouwer on the Power Play He didn't for the majority of PPs, and only brought him back when other players went down
Sticking with the same Power Play strategy the whole year untrue
Prioritizing shots on goals and puck control over quality scoring changes and transition also untrue - his system is mainly based on transition. the execution was poor
Having Brouwer take 3(!) faceoffs and leaving all 3 PKers in OT a full 2 minutes despite 2 stoppages of play (this one should have gotten GG fired immediately) Brouwer is better at RH faceoffs than Backlund - look it up.
Anyway, the idea was to use the best PKers and then throw out the scorers
Not talking to players after the game, every, single, one again, untrue
Playing Bartkowsky 14 games, plus you have to play sitters once in a while just to make sure they are ready if an injury to a regular happens
Playing Tanner Glass 12 games
Playing Stajan well beyond his abilities Got off to a very slow start but was fine as a 4C by the second half
Giving the same even strength ice time to the bottom 6 as the top 6. nope
Sticking to the exact same system from the puck drop to the end of the season, no matter I willing to bet you couldn't tell me what his system is
Not taking a timeout, ever, when things need to be calmed down like pretty much every coach, since timeouts to "change momentum" are overrated. You get more time during a commercial break or an icing.
Not making goalie changes, until 6 goals have been scored on a. - untrue and b. there's some thought that goalies can work back into a game, some of which happened this season (Gillies especially)
Not line matching, even with home ice advantage (Wille Desjardins specialty) nope
Putting the 4th line on every time a goal against is scored nope


Those all point to where the problem really lies. Until that is changed, we cannot evaluate this team properly.