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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Plus this idea that this team has been broken for a long time is so flawed. The team has made substantial changes over the last 2 1/2 seasons.
Look back at the end of the 17-18 roster and the changes since then of “core” (longer than 1 year deals) on this roster:
Here in 17-18: Gio, Backlund, Monahan, Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Bennett
New since then: Lindholm, Mangiapane, Dube, Lucic, Hanifin, Tanev, Andersson, Valimaki, Markstrom
Only 6 guys are still the same from those years! We’ve turned over 75% of the roster.
This isn’t the same team. This is a better team than Hartley had, this is a better team than Gulutzan had, this is a better team than Peters had.
Sure the players aren’t perfect but Ward is getting less out of a better roster than any of his predecessors did before him. The guy is just not an NHL coach.
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Maybe, but Hartley (in his one good year) had playoff Ferland, Hudler, Wideman in a weird career year, Brodie, prime Gio, close to a career year for Hiller. You can’t ignore the deletions. It’s a better team, but maybe some intangibles were lost too. Engelland, Stajan, were 100% guys with or without Hartley.
Ward isn’t a very good coach. But I think this is more on the players.