pucci2001
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- Jun 3, 2012
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the problem with this is that, it will turn into yet another Wilson era and Nonis will be putting his job on the line if Carlyle stays and does a repeat of this year. The only difference between Wilson and Carlyle is our offense is making up for Carlyle's ****** system which Wilson did not have the benefit of. Carlyle is an unfit coach for this team and I absolute HATE the defensive system we have right now. Just terrible.
I don't think it is so much the system as much as it is the personnel in the system. We don't have more than one person on our blue line who can even spell defense(Gunnarsson, Rielly is 2nd best in my book). We also don't have any physical presence on the back end. Gleason lost his edge since he started playing for us. They need to bring someone in on the back end that plays the type of hockey Carlyle is preaching. Our wingers aren't committing to anything in our own end either, they don't really cover the point and they don't really pressure the puck they just float around somewhere inbetween and our defensemen get running around and confused. Especially Dion and especially Franson. If there was a visible system that we could see he was running and we could see it was failing it would be different but personally I don't see any system or any consistency with our line up...it is just a free for all in our own end, the players aren't adhering to any type of system.
I think our PK is a pretty good example of what happened to our team the last 2 seasons. People just started to be terrible and irresponsible. There is no way our PK goes from one of the best to almost dead last in a year because of the coach. The players on the PK didn't even change other than Komarov. Did they forget how to do it after being so successful the year prior?