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Originally Posted by DazzlinDino
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.
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My post was specifically meant for the players and the roster construction. The identity of this team is directly tied to the way the roster was built. You can’t turn a slow team into a fast team and you can’t turn an unskilled team into a skill team because the truly fast teams and truly skilled teams will pick you apart at the end of the day.
Vegas was built fast and therefore play fast, you can’t teach speed, you either have it or you don’t and those guys skated circles around us this season. Same goes for skill. In terms of hard work, this team works hard out there, it’s not like they’re constantly playing in their own zone and getting soundly outplayed, they just can’t score worth a damn. You take our top line out of the lineup and look what happened, shut out after shut out and no difference makers who can break a game wide open. Columbus had that last night in Panarin and Dubois. We didn’t.