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Originally Posted by Bingo
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This is a deeply flawed core that will get a small up tick from a better NHL coach, but not even he can save them.
Coaching issue in that one of the top 20 coaches of all time is an upgrade, but not a coaching issue necessarily in that this group is a mess and will likely still be a mess under the upgrade.
Happy to be wrong!
but I don't agree with your "other words"
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This is a very different team when the team has a hard vs soft coach.
When this team has a hard coach they seem to be able to be in a ton of games and make third period comebacks. They are confident and working harder than the other team. You see it under Ward and we saw it with Gulutzan but with a softer hand we saw a weaker team. I see game 6 against the Canucks in 15 where they came back from 3-0 and I think of game 3 in 2017 or game 6 in 2020 where the team coughed up 3 goal leads to lose in embarrassing fashion.