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Originally Posted by RedHawk12
I feel like people who are hoping Ward gets fired are just clinging to false hope. Yes, Ward is a problem. But we also just have a really inconsistent group of players. The whole make-up of this team is just mediocre, from top down.
I think championship teams have the following:
1. Elite #1 center (eg. Crosby, Toews) - we don't have that
2. Elite #1 defenseman (eg. Hedman, Pietrangelo) - we don't have that
3. Elite goaltender (eg. Vasilevsky, Rask) - we have that!
4. Good coach (eg. Cooper, Julien) - we don't have that
5. Depth scoring and shut down defense (eg. TB and Chicago's forward depth when they won their cups, LA and St
Louis's defense when they won) - we don't have that
6. Buy in to a team system and identity (eg. St. Louis's and LA's power game, TB's structure) - we don't have that
At this point, I'm hoping Ward gets fired too. We hire a competent coach and we might go on a run like the Hartley run and the Peters division championship. But those runs will not last and they will definitely not win us a Cup. We just have way too many pieces missing. This team is the definition of mediocrity and has been for a long time.
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Things are not mutually exclusive. I think the coach needs to be fired and I think there's a lot of gaps and skill problems on the team. Everything from size, to grit, to the lack of a back-up, to compete level etc.
But I also think you could bring in huge changes and without a quality coach you're not going to get the best out of what you do have. And lets face it all teams have gaps, and poor elements and shortages of this and that.