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Originally Posted by Joborule
The trades and signings are up for debate in whether he's made more bad moves than good, but what I think is one glaring weakness for BT has been his coaching hires. All of them have been major misses. The fact he's going to be able to get a third coach in five years makes him very lucky.
But if he's not going to get a coach with a strong resume of playoff success AS A RECENT HEAD COACH, then it feels rather pointless since history is just going to repeat itself. At that point, what is BT really bringing here if he's not even giving his roster the best chance by getting a coach that knows how to win?
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Talent wins games. Coaches coach, players play.
You draft players to play for you and you pay them lots of money when they are good.
When you #### up both parts of that equation there isn't a coach alive that's going to fix it.
The COACH!? You can't be serious at this point, can you? Was Peter's the problem when they got absolutely murdered last year in much the same way they are this year?
Players Play and coaches coach and right now Dallas gets a free shift basically every time the gaudreau line hits the ice.
Look at the composition of the teams, look at the matchups. Dallas is playing their fourth line 10-12 minutes game.
The Flames are hoping to Christ that the 7 minutes they give janko or the 5 minutes they give Rinaldo doesn't end up with multiple goals in the back of their net.
It's not even freaking close out there with the exception of Talbot being all-world right now becuse the talent discrepancy through the lineup for the two teams is massive.
Gaudreau and Tkachuk, when playing at peak performance, are enough to close that gap most nights, but when you're promoting toby ####ing reider to your top line because the only other alternative is Jankowski or Rinaldo, your team sucks really badly.