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Originally Posted by Bingo
I'm not a big Ward fan ... wasn't a huge Hartley fan either. I liked the Peters move but given what was going on he clearly had to go.
But I'm also not a fan of blaming coaches for everything.
Maybe the team doesn't play the right style offensively or defensively, but they lost that game on individuals flubbing, fanning, or just throwing the puck away blind more than they lost on systems.
Giordano's backhand into the slot that led to the winning goal was insane. Monahan's flub, and then Gaudreau trying to skate away from the flub and weakly backhanding it are execution.
Nobody is coaching skill players to half ass it, or abandon fundamentals like doubling back to the puck and not skating away from it.
There are plenty of flaws in the system, plenty of things to criticize, but when you lose games on players not getting themselves ready, and making stupid mistakes it's not coaching 100%.
This core has been broken for years. Still is.
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I'm still not convinced the core is broken until I see a quality coach fail with this group. For 5 years now, we're just opining.