Honestly you got to fire him and try to salvage the season. Can't trade players effectively this season with quarantine, etc.., so you're not going to get the value you might get in the offseason. At least bringing in a new coach, you can say to the team that the new coach is not the next one to go, so take a look in the mirror. Maybe a new coach squeezes something out of the players that Ward just isn't right now.
Ward's system does not suit this team. They do not play in the middle of the ice at all. It's all shots from the point looking for tips, and no creativity. His tentative one man forecheck is just not working, and the team can't generate shots.
Time to make a change Brad.
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