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Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford
I honestly wonder if GG is the worst coach in Flames history.
Think of when he took over - Monahan & Gaudreau were looking like our Toewes & Kane. Bennett was looking like a superstar in the making.
GG gets his hands on them and now we have 2 1-way soft players, and a 3rd line C. Not to mention how he also tried to destroy Brodie.
I know it's hindsight, but Treliving almost deserves a firing for that hire as this is what it has left us. He better NAIL this next HC hire, but I am betting he goes the coward way and just keeps Ward.
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As to keeping Ward, I really hope not and here's why. I wouldn't say that I dislike Ward as a coach necessarily, but I just don't think he's the right guy for the job with this particular core. I mean who knows, the guys might love him, and he might have some really good strategies in terms of x's and o's. But I'm a big believer that the team takes on the personality of their coach, and having watched Ward operate since December what's clear to me is that he's so even keeled he's practically catatonic. And that's the way that a lot of this teams plays, a lot of the time. They don't get overly mad, they don't push back, they're not aggressive, they're just ... blah. And after a game that they should be pissed off about, they seem to say that they played pretty good and things just didn't work out.
I really think that this team, in its current form anyway, needs a coach who kicks them in the ass and hands out a good dose of accountability to passengers on a nightly basis. I feel like somebody like Torts or Sutter would work perfectly for this squad. Nice guys like Ward and GG aren't working.