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Originally Posted by Burning Beard
Imo you have to try a new proven coach before you blow it all up. It would seem silly not to. On paper this team is better than the team that was 1st in the West under Peters.
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I made this point on overtime last night, I like our ownership but it baffles me how they could invest so much time and money into the core and not just spend some more incremental dollars for a PROVEN head coach. I don’t get the ward signing at all.
I also argued that on balance, if you were to separate out broadly “players coaches” (GG and Ward) and “hardass coaches” (peters Hartley) it’s pretty clear to me that the hardasses get the most out of this group. Pat tried to argue with me by citing the Colorado playoff collapse, which yeah wasn’t great, but on balance the two biggest achievements of the last ten years were a playoff series win and finishing first in the west which happened under peters and Hartley. We should have ponied up for a coach with some edge and pedigree. Pat mentioned that the players really like ward and I’m sure they do, but for reasons that are incongruent with actually winning hockey games like he lets them off the hook and plays music at practice.