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Originally Posted by transplant99

Players openly admitting it was their execution that betrayed them

Same core group through 4 different coaches with similar issues with all of them............blame coaching.

https://www.calgarysun.com/sports/ho...oss-to-canucks

This. I don’t think Ward is some wonderful coach. I also don’t think many coaches actually move the needle on their team - make it more than the sum of its parts. Trotz, Vigneault and Tortorella maybe. But is Sheldon Keefe a great coach? Is Cooper? Is Berube?

This team is a middling team - it has no true elite players other than Markstrom. There are some very good ones, like Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Monahan, but each has some pretty limiting flaws. And I can’t even blame management for this. The current gm has drafted as well as could be expected from the position - only Bennett has failed to live up to draft position and anyone would have taken him. When you only draft top 5 once you aren’t getting superstars. And given the value he had on hand to be traded, he’s done as well or better than other gms.

This team’s record is generally equivalent to the quality of the players.