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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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I think the issue comes from trying to decide where “blame” or “fault” lies. I don’t think it has to mean “the team is flawed” or “the coach was bad” (re Ward). I think the perspective is about “need” or “fit”.
If this team responds to Sutter, I think they will have proven something. They NEED a hard ass coach to perform. Their best seasons with a large number of this group have been in under hard ass Hartley and hard ass Peters. And they have absolutely floundered under “players coaches” GG and Ward.
But what I don’t think it means is the group is flawed if that’s what it means, it’s just what they respond best to. What annoys me is I feel BT (who I’ve liked) pretty much said this when he hired Peters. And I get it, the need to fire Peters wasn’t an expected outcome, but why did he come back with “players coach” Ward after the fact when he’d already learnt this group needs accountability forced on then?