Hm AV is a good coach again?
Right now, the team is playing partial games with a garbage compete level. I don't blame coaches for crap effort, I blame the guys on the ice. Players are well paid and this is their job. Show the **** up to work.
Regarding AV, he makes some seemingly odd choices, but you'll generally see the exact same complaints from fans of every team. Right now, the team's 1C is out and the forwards and LDs are shackled to a catastrophe RD corp. That is an unbelievably difficult handicap to play with. Clendening argued by many to come in and I am fine with that. But the reality exists that throughout his career Clendening's decisions and fundamentals have been an atrocity, so it's understandable if a coach does not feel all too confident in him.
Sports are results based. And while a few are calling for AV to be fired, that does not seem likely when during his time here AV has the 3rd most regular season wins, 4th most GF, 4th fewest GA, best differential, most playoff games played, 2nd most playoff wins and the team is currently leading the league in points.
I have some grudges with AV. But personally I am vastly more concerned with our RD situation than I am with the coach. When Girardi, Clendening, Klein and wrong side Holden is your RD corp, it's almost like the other 4 players on the ice have that burden to carry. Not a good recipe and for me that is an infinitely larger concern than the coach. I'm not convinced any coach can do much better or go anywhere in the playoffs when 1 of the 5 skating positions is pretty much crippling the other 4 skaters.