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Originally Posted by dissentowner
He literally stated when he came in that the group wanted to play an uptempo fast brand of hockey and that was what they were going to do, which they did. After they got killed by the Av's he changed the system to that slow monstrosity we have seen under him and Ward and the team floundered. There is nothing to doubt.
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That's different than "letting the team play" - which is an inference that he wasn't coaching.
He did come in and coach this team (properly, IMO) until the all-star game, and then he failed to coach them well at all since then.
We aren't talking about Mike Keenan here
Edit: To make it clear, I am referencing "Uptempo system" as coaching the team properly. He did have this team playing well within an uptempo system for a while, and it seemed to have changed into something horrible. However, he was definitely coaching, not like Keenan who was basically 'hands off' and slotted players according to salary, and had them 'figure stuff out by themselves'.