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Originally Posted by GioforPM
What I'm getting at is that your statement that he didn't change his "glaring mistake" is just untrue. Look at the game logs. Look at the quarterly splits. He took him right off the powerplay after 15 games or so, then played him limited minutes thereafter (usually when injuries happened and he had to turn to a guy that had actually practiced PP before). Saying GG arrogantly stuck with it is just false.
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I don’t think he ever used the word arrogant, you are interpreting that and it is hyperbole.
GG was generally on the more “rigid” side of player usage, I recall reading an article on the athletic showing that he stuck with consistent line combos more often than ~2/3 of coaches in the league. Although that doesn’t totally relate to the topic of Brouwers PP usage it does show that he was more set in forcing things to work (or patience or whatever you want to call it) than most coaches.
When results don’t match up with expectations heading into the season we want to find out why and player usage is one thing that is easy to point to