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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Maybe the Flames are actually a fast team and were burdened by too many rules in the system.
With all the analysis and theories it would be very hard for a coach to figure out that less might be better.
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That's actually my theory, too. I have a bit of a background in military history. The one thing that guarantees defeat for a general is to come up with a plan that is such a tactical monstrosity that it breaks upon contact with the enemy and the troops don't know how to adjust.
We know that Glen Gulutzan had to simplify his system after the first few weeks of his first season, because the players found it too complex to execute at game speed. There seems to be evidence that he returned to the full complexity of that system in his second season. He was also heavily criticized for not making in-game adjustments: well, that is hard to do if the system has so many moving parts that you have to change half a dozen things at once to adjust anything.
I don't, of course, know exactly what Gulutzan's system entailed in terms of X's and O's, but the results in practice suggest that it was too complicated and inflexible to work effectively.