[kermitology]

My guess is that Ward wasn’t able to effectively communicate what each player was supposed to be doing and as a result the players weren’t clear on what they should be doing exactly. That split second of hesitation is what made them look slow.

Now Sutter on the other hand, he’s famous for his ability to collect a player and effectively communicate the players job to him. He simplified the game to be about the individual job and inspires the work ethic to just do these simple things. He also focuses on getting the puck into the opposing zone as far as possible.

Then it’s free reign for the players, but support each other, like you would your brothers. There’s a reason why Sutter talked about connecting with the players and bringing them together as family.

He also just doesn’t accept lazy, sloppy behaviour. That’s what I kept seeing, they would put up a good game, maybe as a mirage, but they scored a bunch of goals, so they played like they were hot ####. But that undeserved arrogance combined with lazy play was what we were seeing. Not having a solution to check the egos and inspire that work ethic was what made Ward a bad coach.