Yeah, that the praise should heaped on the deserving...Shanahan, Lou, Dubas, Hunter, Pridham, and even Leiweke.
If I was, Hyman wouldn’t be on my first line, Komarov would be on the 4th permanently, I wouldn’t put Hyman or Komarov on the power play, I’d cater my offensive strategy to the players I have, I’d have a semblance of a defensive structure, and I wouldn’t leave the penalty box empty so my team has to play 7 minutes short handed as we had to last year against Columbus. I think I’ll just continue to enlighten people like you who think Babcock is elite, but thanks for the suggestion anyways.
Can you detail how you'd build our offensive strategy different from now? What would your defensive structure be like? I'd be very interested to hear that, since you think you have better solutions.
The dump and chase that was implemented earlier in the season didn’t work. He tried it because he felt that with players like Martin Komarov, Brown, and Hyman, it would work. But it’s your stars that you should gear your attack around. Nylander, Marner, Matthews, Kadri prefer to hold onto the puck and maintain possession, make plays on the rush, etc. To Babcocks credit he moved away from the dump and chase and the team played much better as a result. I reiterate, he’s a good coach, not a great one. His focus and reliance on grinders at the expense of skill is his fault. There’s a place for one dimensional grinders on all teams, but not receiving major minutes at the expense of our stars and not on the first line. Defensively, something has been amiss for a few years. How can we continually get outshot and opposition shots always in the 30s without something needed to be changed. Babcock should thank his lucky stars Lou got him Andersen, or we’d have been stuck with Bernier or Reimer. Then we’d see our coach’s ability to be elite.
It’s people like you that are laughable who think that a coach is beyond reproach. The best coaches in the world in any sport (Babcocks not one of them) are sometimes questioned. Great coaches have been fired. Winning with great players doesn’t make you elite. The only arrogance I see is from Babcock who thinks his crap doesn’t stink.
So I guess this means that you can't explain what kind of systems you would run, you just know that they would definitely be better than those of one of the most highly acclaimed professionals in the world?
i did read this, i do get where you're coming from
Hyman has played on the pp temporarily in the past and recently was on the ice on the 6 on 5 so tell me again why I have to reevaluate my position because something wasn’t true? And to the rest of you asking me what I’d do, I’m not paid millions to figure out how we can limit shots on goal. I’m a volleyball coach who can tell you how to defend a multiple offence coming from the opposite side of the net. But as a hockey fan, I can tell when a coach makes baffling and frustrating decisions. Like I said, he’s a good coach, not elite IMO
Just because you are baffled doesn't mean the rest of us are...or that it's wrong.
You few who lap up the Babcock kool-aid aren’t baffled but a considerable number of the fan base are and we’ll continue to question our illustrious coach when necessary.
