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Originally Posted by redmile04
Do not disagree with your post at all and the first comment about needing to change coaches but at what point do we stop blaming coaches and ice a better hockey team?
We have won 3 first rounds in 30 plus years, 2 of those rounds with the guy behind the bench right now.
Countless coaches that did not win anything here, why dont we blame the GM? He is the one that hires these coaches, ices the roster... based on what i have seen, the next coach is going to be outed by the flames in short order, it happens with every single coach... why would that change?
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Oh I'd say it's pretty much all on the GM and his brain trust at this point. Afterall, management specifically selects the coaches and players to execute their vision of how they're going to play and perform on the ice.
But it doesn't seem to matter who they hire to coach whether young or old, promising or accomplished, modern or old school, player's coach or hard ass, it doesn't matter as it ends up with the same result when it's all said and done again and again.
This is not a new story, we've seen comparable seasons like this play out in similar fashion before and it will continue to play out like this with different name tags until this organization fundamentally changes the way they go about things.
Build the team the right way through the draft from the ground up and take your time. Stop building your team through free agency especially if your talent evaluation isn't up to par. These quick, easy, yet risky fixes only serve to patch up mediocre foundations, not build a proper one that will stand the test of time.