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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Ward has shortened the bench a lot this year, I’d say.
But I’m talking not only about within games. I’m talking about entire runs that they’ve had under GG and Ward. They were playing those coach’s systems and succeeding. Then they quit working and lose. Maybe that’s also a coaching problem but it’s also a huge player problem.
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What runs are you talking about?
Under Ward, I've seen none. Having one line playing well (Whether that's Tkachuk-Backlund-Mangiapane or Lucic-Bennett-Dube while all other lines struggle doesn't exactly qualify IMO)
Gulutzan's best "runs" came during a stretch where Chad Johnson looked like a Vezina candidate, and then a ten game stretch when Brian Elliott played his best hockey. The irony is that those stretches were the worst underlying number stretches of Gulutzan's tenure, even though improving underlying numbers was his whole MO.