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Originally Posted by Willi Plett
... I don’t feel like this coaching staff can deliver. I want the team to play a system more suitable to the players we have. I believe that would be a team with a much faster transition from defense to offense, out of the zone with a better break out and ability to get through the NZ. A style that plays more in the middle of the offensive zone and less around the perimeter and boards, that has the goalie moving cross crease a lot more and with more traffic in the middle. I want a coach that has the team ready to play, makes good adjustments, and knows how to get top performances out of the best players....
Overall, this is one of the better teams we have had from goalie out. We are, unfortunately a piece or 2 short of being extremely good. Partly the result of Covid and no cap increase Id say. Another $4MM would have gone a long way. Still, the current style of play and inability to have the team ready and make in game and game to game adjustments sells our current player group way short in my opinion.
For me, I believe we have already taken too long to deal with this. So, the best time to make a change is now. Who will coach for 2-3 weeks is not an issue to me. Who will coach and get top performance for 3 years? That is a question for thought and analysis.
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In have also been a fan of the team since the move to Calgary. Cheers!
I don't disagree with you about some of the finer details of the system, but I will say this:
First, I think you are probably over-rating the group. For all their skill this Flames team might be the most psychologically fragile core of players I have ever seen. They are floundering under their FOURTH(!) head coach in SIX(!) years. I would say that most of their on-ice problems are of their own making from their aneurism-inducing inability to start games on time, to their stupefying failure to complete more than a pass or two at a time for long stretches. I certainly do not think Geoff Ward is a great coach, but I am also pretty soundly convinced that this group of players will have middling to short-lived success under any coach.
Second, as noted above, circumstances dictate that no coaching changes will be made in-season barring something absurdly catastrophic like Geoff Ward losing his mind and mowing down Sam Bennett with a Zamboni. Simply put: the Flames are already paying one man a lot of money to not coach their team. They won't be paying for two.