I think it's quite telling the role guys who were brought in are all playing like trash. Significantly worse than with their previous teams. I doubt guys like Nordstrom and Simon are taking shifts off or not trying. They are bubble guys who will do anything to stay in the league. I have no doubt they are doing exactly what Ward is telling them...yet somehow they have become worse here.
We have a head coach here who got his only two head coaching gigs in North America because the head coach position above him was vacated mid season. Once because Julien was promoted to the NHL and once because of the Peters fiasco.
It's completely reasonable to question if this guy is helping or hurting the team.
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