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Originally Posted by Bingo
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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That is pretty much what I feel, that the emotions of the team are part of what a coach should be able to manage and manipulate and he didn't seem to help the team with that challenge when they needed it.
I would even say that the main part of a coach's work should be in that space. The technical parts of the job are necessary to providing a team with great leadership and support, but they're not sufficient. The emotional work is key.
A team needing a coach to help get them to their next level through emotional management isn't necessarily a condemnation of the players either. Team performance and coach performance can't be considered in isolation. The team achieving the best it can assumes the coaching staff contributing all that they can. The coaching staff is part of the team.