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Originally Posted by Bingo
I'm not even a Geoff Ward guy ... I wasn't high on bringing him back.
Given how this group has gone through coaches, I liked that they all liked going to war for him but I didn't like his lack of adaptability in the Dallas series (both in tactics when the "Winnipeg plan" wasn't working, and in roster when he stuck with things when Tkachuk went down), and the way he handled the Talbot pull.
But this blame everything on him day in and day out has an effect of trying to beat back the extremes.
It's a character flaw of mine!
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I'm sort of the same. I'm not a big Ward fan. I just have difficulty with all of the narratives that are either outright false or, at the very least, have no evidence, especially about the system he supposedly coaches (which is highly different depending on who's talking).
Do we know for a fact Ward expressly coaches dump and chase, or are forwards just skating into spots where that's their only option? Not to mention - lots of successful teams do it (TB for example).
Do we know for a fact Ward coaches a D to D pass every time, or are the forwards flying the zone and getting too far to pass to (or maybe are people only noticing when it happens and not lots of other plays when the puck goes up the ice quicker)?