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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
You may notice, had you actually read the thread you are so coyly responding to, that this was created when the Flames were 18-11-2 under Ward.
That is not a diatribe blaming a coach for losses.
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This is absolutely a diatribe on the coach which has been bumped up due to losses mounting. Like honestly, is anyone here a professional hockey coach? Does anyone here know more about the game then a Geoff Ward or a Bill Peters or a Glen Gulutzan? We don’t know squat. This game has so much read and react I don’t know how coaching could possibly ever be the biggest problem. To me, it always comes down to the players or possibly the GM who constructs the team and vision.
I just think this place has an addiction. An addiction to blame coaches and blame every aspect of what we believe is good coaching or bad coaching like we’re experts or something. Like how many more coaches will this team have to go through before this fanbase finally understands it’s not the coach?
Now I’ll be fair, a lot of fanbases do this, an example would be up North who’ve went through more coaches than we have and they’ve tried it all. Player’s coaches, veteran coaches, top prospect coached, hall of fame coaches, future hall of fame coaches and nothing. Absolutely no difference and a new coach here, wouldn’t make much of a difference either because unless they can strap on the skates and blow past defenders like McDavid can, they’re still just suits standing behind a bench.