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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
How so? If the new coach has the same wrong message in a different voice, you should expect similar results.
The message isn't expected to change. You can't build around a system. We are built around three defensemen who, the day Glen Gulutzan was signed, were identified by Gulutzan as 40+ point guys, and playing systems in which only one of them - the worst of them - is a 40 pt guy. We added an expensive 25 pt defensemen and placed him into a system where he scored 11 points.
All in all it can't be time to "start blaming the players" when you have Giordano, a 55-60pt guy, in the mid-30s and Brodie, a 45-50pt guy without relying on the PP, also in the mid 30s after relying on the PP, and Hamonic being outscored by such offensive beasts as Engelland.
Peters has to implement a system that will make use of the pieces at his disposal. If that fails it is time to start blaming the players. Blaming the players if they don't produce playing Gulutzan's system with a different voice is poor logic. All four guys in our top 4 D have produced offensively in the past and neutering them and then discarding them is just absurd. D creating offense is what gives today's top offenses depth and we should be right at the top of that given the proven production before Treliving's vision was enacted.
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Sorry i don't know if you've played hockey - but when you are on the ice you do not feel like a widget or simply a piece of a larger system on the ice - yes you can be instructed to play a system - but the game itself is very fluid and most shifts are filled with moments for players when you need to respond based on skill and desire - things you cannot teach or instruct on how to respond. Its really oversimplified to just blame the system or the coach for the failures of this team this season.
I'm just saying i hope mgmt digs deeper than the coach, and doesn't give this group another year to 'figure it out'.