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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Well, I guess I’m with Wardo. Out of ideas
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That’s his problem, he has no ideas and no ability to adjust his system. The only answer Ward has is to shuffle his lines. News flash! It won’t work. The Flames do not have the personnel to play Wards’s system, and the system doesn’t suit today’s NHL. Ward is either incapable of recognizing that this system will not work or he has no ability to change it to something more likely to work.
You could argue that the players have stopped caring, and things certainly look that way. But you can’t trade 20 players in a pandemic-restricted season with a flat cap. And trading players at their lowest possible value due to the team’s current performance is poor asset management. Trading one or two players won’t change the makeup of the team enough to suit Ward’s system, and besides that, I don’t think that the system would work for any team in today’s NHL. Compound that with Ward’s complete inability to make any adjustments other than line combinations, and it’s easy to see that the only solution is for Ward to go. The sooner the better. It’s the only in-season option that can amount to anything more than shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.