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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
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.
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The roster isn't great that's for sure and needs some pretty big changes, it's undeniable. It's just poorly constructed.
But coaches really do matter. Good coaches build a team into something more than it's parts. Bad coaches screw up player development and end up with large numbers of players having poor seasons.
It blows when you think about it. The Flames have neither a well built roster, nor a top end coach. They're aimlessly wandering in mediocrity.