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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Ward was a player's coach as well, and it didn't take the team long to become passive under him. Maybe if they tried a little harder under Ward, they wouln't have had to counter with Sutter. Realizing og course, there has been roster turnover, in general, the Flames have never seemed to fair well under "player's" coaches. It typically becomes a country club quickly.
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This.
The team has traditionally underachieved under players coaches (Gulutzan and Ward) and overachieved under more "old school" style coaches (Hartley, Peters and Sutter).
Players may not like Sutter and the way he does things but they're being paid a lot of money to play a game, and at the moment they're doing so quite unsuccessfully.
I imagine there are lots of us who don't like our bosses or don't like our companies or don't like any number of factors in our daily work lives, as that's just life. Nothing will ever be 100% amazing. A good boss is a great thing to have but there will always be something that happens that we don't like or don't want to have to deal with and yet we still have to go in and make it work and get results, otherwise we have consequences.
What happened last night was upsetting to see as a Flames fan. It's 1 thing to lose, it's completely different when, despite playing so poorly for most the year you have an opportunity to help yourself in a big way by showing up and gutting out a win against a good team, only to show up and ...well...do whatever the **** last night was. It was awful and frankly it was pretty telling about this teams lack of leadership and a microcosm of their entire season. This team is the return of the "Sassy Millionaires".
The Flames will likely make major changes in the offseason behind the bench and possibly upstairs, which is fine because something obviously needs to change and they're commited to guys like Huberdeau and Kadri for better or worse. However, bringing in another "players" coach is a mistake IMO. The players need to be held accountable and if they don't like the "hard" approach then maybe they should start winning.
Winning solves a lot of problems. Winning is fun.