What you're saying is basically: Even though my surgeon is operating on the wrong arm, I'm gonna see where this goes just in case there's a problem there too.
The fact that the team is so streaky is a coaching problem.
How is it that his coaching and his system has been responsible for the decline of our team and yet in both years we completely do a 180 and yet that has nothing to do with him as well?
Is it really a coaching problem? Or is it that we are a streaky team? We've been seeing this for 2 years now and both times when the team pulled itself together and started playing consistently had nothing to do with the coaching it was receiving. Coop stood at the bench chewing gum like a cow.
He didn't alter the forecheck, the breakout, change our set plays, didn't introduce new systems or take them away. He didn't use the 1-3-1 to protect a lead (like he always does) any more or less. He didn't change the roles of the players except for Point because he was the last healthy center we had going for us and meanwhile the veterans (who he's supposedly cannot keep motivated) like Kucherov and Hedman along with a malcontent who demanded a trade were the ones busting ass every night.
The only adjustment Cooper has ever made to our team was during the "Tampacuse" months where if we happened to score first he did everything we could to sit on it because everyone in the building knew that we weren't gonna score another. You likened us to the Gretzky Oilers playing like the Brodeur Devils.
We both agree that there is a major player issue. But given the fact that Jon Cooper has had nothing to with the team pulling itself out of the holes it creates tells me that the guy is laissez-faire and he lets the team figure it out.
That's why I've said "The guy doesn't do anything"