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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Yes and we've done that for 29 years. 14 different coaches. We've had 29 years to field a better roster that could actually be more than just a middling team, but fact is, we haven't. Until we stop thinking the same way and trying to beat that square peg into a round hole, we're not going anywhere.
We tried to vastly different systems between 2 vastly different coaches and we're still getting the same results. I've already reached my conclusion on what I think needs to be changed and to me, it's not a coaching problem no matter how many people tell me otherwise. I've seen the same song and dance too many times for the last 20+ years.
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I would agree if even one of the coaches we have been through since Darryl had any degree of success anywhere else, but they haven't. And we did well when Darryl was our coach (great coach, terrible GM).
To me, the fault lies with both coaching (complicated system that makes hockey a thinking game rather than an instinctive one, making every player who comes here worse than they were before, insisting that players must play on the side dictated by which side they shoot on, making everyone's shooting percentage worse by making plays develop so slowly that our opponents can react and get in shooting lanes and the goaltender can get in an ideal position for a stop, failing to make in-game or in-season changes based on the current situation) and management (can we just once hire a real coaching staff rather than head coaches with no NHL experience and special teams coaches with a history of creating league-worst special teams, and can we actually have legit 1st and 2nd line right wingers, along with a fast, young, tenacious 4th line?).