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Originally Posted by bubbsy
kessel's fine. he's been as advertised, and puts up points consistently on the team. not every player is a 2 way guy.
i actually lay this entire fiasco on the shoulders of this amateur coach. if he doesn't know what type of info is worth stating to people at public events then he's not fit to be a coach of a media hungry market like toronto.
i realize he was at a coaching clinic, but does the story lose any impact for whatever the heck his point/lesson was, if he just left the player name out of it? If his point was that a big difference about coaching at the NHL level vs any other is that you're dealing with million dollar investments, and they aren't as easy to change in their ways as in other leagues, keeping kessel's name out of hte story would have had the same frigin effect.
this spatt dude seems like an idiot. way to get your career, and a team's training camp out on the right foot. curious how long this guy stays in the nhl.
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Well first of all, if your advanced stats are as bad as the Leafs then you need to make changes to the style your team plays, and everyone has to buy in, so Phil DOES have to be open to coaching, period.
As far as the coach goes, I think he's not protecting himself very well here, but I think he's completely entitled to show how ridiculous the situation is in Toronto, where the player controls so much and is backed up by upper management. Maybe the fans will pause the next time a coach is made the scapegoat for the team's inability to succeed and start lashing out at players instead. Lord knows it almost happened here with Iginla and crew.
Honestly, do you really think this coach is an idiot for trying to help the team improve, and then using the media as a tool to curry favor with the masses? I think it's crafty, likely leading to his downfall, but will hopefully spur some change within the organization.