There are times when I see a coach exploited and have no adjustment ... I thought Hartley struggled after the league came up with an answer to his stretch pass for example.
The Flames didn't change tactics in the playoffs though. They gave up on them. Nobody coaches a team to back in on their goaltender and expose the team by creating huge gaps between forwards and defenseman.
That's a team that is spooked, and now leaving the game plan to avoid looking foolish.
To me that's not coaching.
However if you think it's Peters job to get them going again ... get them out of the spook and back to the game plan, you could be on to something.
But then you're back to the issue of the team needing the coach to drive them again, just like they did with Gulutzan ... which sends the topic back to needing to change the core/leadership.
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