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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Honestly, if you really looks at the numbers last year, I see a team that was doing everything right but just had zero morale. Across the board, we had (mostly) excellent advanced stats... and the glaringly weak spots were all things that a team in a better headspace would have had no problem with.
pressure-related offensive and defensive breakdowns
untimely bad goals
not fighting for (offensive or deffensive) rebounds
untimely penalties
crumbling with the lead / no belief in getting a lead
We were a team that was being coached the right way hockey-wise, but the wrong way mentally. Now I fear it's the opposite.
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Alternatively, the coach (sharpest mind in hockey) wanted to play the right way and lost a battle with the new stars who didn't. And the coach also battled with many in the head office over the quality of the roster (or lack thereof) and lost that battle too.
So here we are with Maloney in charge, "star" players playing the way they think they need to, largely the same roster, a huge downgrade in the coaching position and a less "toxic" (or alternatively, a less accountable and less critical) atmosphere.
The results thus far seem to be tracking the logic of the situation pretty darn closely.