Dear Mike Babcock...

[Mathgod]

1) What's with the constant line juggling? How is this team going to find chemistry with different line combinations almost every shift?
2) Please, no more benching guys for making ONE MISTAKE that was barely even their fault
3) What's with the favoritism? Limiting guys like Morrow, Richards, Iginla in favour of the Sharks threesome... you've got a lineup of 13 superstar forwards; don't have to stick with just 3

[zamler]

Luckily Babcock is an avid CP reader.

[BACKCHECK!!!]

Seriously.

Mr Babcock played a very large role in the game tonight, and did so with a heavy hand.

This game was an abject failure.

This was a VERY clear example of a coach doing more harm than good to a team. Had the initial lines simply rolled along all night, I suspect the team would have done much better.

The Sharks line was simply out-hustled and out-worked all night, but he rode them like a little red wagon all game.

He lost the game-within-the-game, and he lost it BIG.

[FanIn80]

What do you expect from someone with the word "bab" in their name?

[jschick88]

Mike Babcock, after 3-2 win over Swiss, says Martin Brodeur will start Sunday against the U.S

[Canada 02]

The Shark line that scored two goals was a failure?

[Ark2]

What I don't understand is why Babcock is dressing 13 skaters. This gaurantees that lines will get mixed up every other shift and really doesn't make much sense. Another thing that I find baffling is why name guys like Morrow and Richards to the team if you aren't going to use them? If you look at the 2002 roster, it had success with guys like Maltby and Draper because it used these guys regularly and they were used to their strengths.

I get that Babcock is a superstar coach and all, and I'm just some dumb CP poster but if he refuses to use 4 lines and just lean on 6 guys, then this team really doesn't have a chance.

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

The Shark line that scored two goals was a failure?

If you give any line on that team the ice time and number of chances that they got, then they likely would have scored 2 goals as well.

[jschick88]

Morrow and Richards are on the team for one thing. If we play the Russians, Ovechkin.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by Canada 02

The Shark line that scored two goals was a failure?

20+ minutes and ONLY 2 goals against the SWISS? Sounds like a bad night. They should've had 2 goals each with that kind of ice time

[temple5]

The failure is a bunch of millionaires athletes playing like a bunch of millionaire athletes.

[kipperiggy]

Iginla:
5 goals in 2 games, including the hat trick against Norway
Proven leadership ability
Best right winger on the team
Generating chances on the ice tonight

Benched in favour of:
Toews: did nothing of note
Bergeron: won some faceoffs, that was about it
Nash: great hands, but lazy, selfish player.

Yes I'm not a Stanley Cup winning coach, but it doesn't take a Stanley Cup winning coach to figure out that that logic is seriously flawed!

[automaton 3]

It's a mystery why he kept putting Getzlaf out there, he was terrible.

[Grimbl420]

Did Iginla even play in the last 5 minutes of regulation? Because I don't remember seeing him.

[Phaneuf3]

[home_sweet_dome]

I wonder if Timbit is secretly Mike Babcock.

[CSharp]

I think Babcock has been spoiled with the type of forwards that he has in Detroit. Maybe this is why he plays the Shark line so much. Babcock doesn't have an Iggy type player on his team. So, I don't think he knows how to use Iggy regularly and consistently on any shifts. Kind of disappointing.

[Smell My Finger]

After the Norway game the media wanted to talk about to Babcock about Iginla moving from the 4th line to the first line and how smart that was.

Babcock's answer was "I told Iginla when he arrived in Vancouver that we need him to play the body and a physical game. We really don't need him to score goals. It just so happened that tonight he did."
Are you kidding me Babcock you arrogant jerk off.
We should have seen this as foreshadowing of tonights game and how Babcock is missmanaging Iginla and others.

I definatly am not a fan of Babcock.

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by Smell My Finger

After the Norway game the media wanted to talk about to Babcock about Iginla moving from the 4th line to the first line and how smart that was.

Babcock's answer was "I told Iginla when he arrived in Vancouver that we need him to play the body and a physical game. We really don't need him to score goals. It just so happened that tonight he did."
Are you kidding me Babcock you arrogant jerk off.
We should have seen this as foreshadowing of tonights game and how Babcock is missmanaging Iginla and others.

I definatly am not a fan of Babcock.

If you need someone to play physical and throw the body, then they just should have named Clutterbuck instead of Jarome. You don't tell a 50 goal scorer that you don't want him to score goals and then put a guy that has only passed 70 points once in his career on the top line. That makes absolutely no sense.

[Joborule]

If that's an actual quote I gotta think Babcock may not be that bright. Sure you want Iggy being physical, but this a player that damn well made his legacy, and continue doing so by scoring a lot of goals.

Let the man excel at what he's best at. Just because he hasn't had a good season doesn't mean that he can't find his grove in scoring goals with players of the same caliber around him.