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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I'm actually not sure this is true...and even if it is then it doesn't explain leaving off Misa and Parekh who just proved they could win by winning the memorial cup.
Colorado won a cup without grinding very much at all, Tampa won back to back. You can't be soft but in the end skill can still win.
In the end my personal feeling on this is that coaches like these types of teams better because they feel like they have more control over a team that is more of a defensive grind it out team than a team that's more of a purely talented team made up of the best players. In the end it's what the coach wants to have control over.
But as a fan I don't want to see that TBH. In the end winning or losing is made up of a lot of different factors...roster, coaching, reffing, luck, other results, etc and this iteration of Canada might win, or the iteration of Canada with Sennecke, Misa, Yakemchuk, and Parekh might have won - both have a chance at success.
But as a fan in these major international tournaments I don't want to see Chris Kunitz playing with Crosby instead of Claude Giroux, or Kris Draper on a team instead of Sydney Crosby.
I want to see the best players playing together and Canada being entertaining. Canada winning the tournament by playing like they are some underdog team that needs to grind their way to victory is boring to me, even if they end up winning.
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And there's the rub.
Coaches dont really care what you or I want. They only do their job for one reason.
To win.
And that's where the disconnect comes...how you or I think that should happen vs how he or she thinks that should happen.
And to be clear...Im not even disagreeing with your position but moreso understanding why its his/theirs. They have legitimate reasons.