Dallas was clearly the better team, but they also showed that Ward had no antidote to their forecheck. This is a fairly small and skilled team with good, if not great, first pass and well skating defensemen. However the break out never changed, slow triangle passing pattern along the wall to try and break out. Same result every time.
He showed some imagination with line tinkering, but reverted back what was not working in the end.
Seems like a good guy, the team apparently likes him and so on.
Very difficult to say what will come out of this, but how much better is this team with Laviolette or Boudreau behind the bench? Hard to say.
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