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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Easy to say. You tell me who the right coach is that this group won’t tune out eventually. They’ve done it to literally every coach they had - experienced or not. Hard-ass or good guy. Run and gun or collapsing.
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I am not convinced they tuned out Hartley. They seemed to enjoy playing for him even in that final year.
I don't even know if they tuned out Gulutzan. Those 40+ shot nights that ended in losses... it seemed they were doing what Gully asked of them. Some might even argue that injuries to Tkachuk, Brodie, and Monahan, and awful luck were the reasons Gulutzan's team faded towards the end, though I had my own issues with him.
Maybe not even Peters was tuned out though he did get exposed during the Avs series. They had better analytics under Peters than under Ward, but poor luck stats.
And have they tuned out Ward? Or is Ward's system simply not working?
I think it's too easy to make a sweeping claim of "tuning out" coaches.