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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Actually, virtually every player Treliving and co has acquired involves character. Just listen to the press conferences or interviews he does, the first thing he did was talk about was Brouwer’s character, leadership and presence. Lazar is all character and no skill.
The pro scouting in this organization is as bad as it gets and they’re the ones who should be fired. Just look at this long list of screw ups: raymond, brouwer, bollig, hiller, elliott, lazar, f hamilton, eddie lack, jokipakka, chiasson, grossman, shinkaruk, glass and etc. The amount of assets and dough we’ve wasted on these players who’ve provided almost zero value is a big reason why we are stuck in this crap situation.
It’s been like this for a long time. Even the Sutter era had the same problems. Too many whiffs on player acquisitions. Looking at the wrong types of players. At some point here, this organization needs to stop spinning their wheels and realize that they’ve been building teams the wrong way. We can keep firing coaches left and right like we have in the past, but that still hasn’t solved the major problems that we’ve seen from this franchise since the 90’s.
My guess is, things don’t change and we’re in for another decade of mediocrity. If this organization has proven anything over the last couple decades +, they’re consistent at being good, but never great. Giving us a chance, but never enough to put us over the top.
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This is an interesting point; Some posters commenting on Glen Gulutzan being a nice guy had me thinking about how players might respond to him as a leader. Good character can be important in a coach, but not if he can't lead or motivate the troops. Just like "good character" without skill in a player won't get you very far in today's NHL. The team either is playing the system, or not responding to the coach. GG asking Sutter how he got the players to go to the wall for him in 2004 is very telling. He asks because he wants to know. There are some people who know how to get a group of people emotionally invested in a goal so that they believe in it and will do anything to obtain it. Gerard Gallant, being a nice guy seems to have this ability as does Darryl Sutter a stern coach. BT wanted a possession based coach and got one but either misjudged or overlooked the importance of having a true leader, or motivator.
Lots of examples out there where you can have a boss that's really smart, nice guy but not everyone follows his lead. To make matters worse GG doesn't seem to be able to help this team create an
identity. Are we a fast team, skilled or the hardest working. The Flames don't seem to have any identity.
BT is a nice guy, a smart man hopefully he adds a few more boxes that check off on his coaching/players lists so he can get the right hire/players for this team.