Not sure why Brind’Amour is catching blame. His roster is flat out less talented than New York’s and they arguably carried the pace of play for most of the series.
We should give him whatever he wants.
Brind’Amour is incredibly overrated. The fact that Brind’Amour used the first round victory as a chance to negotiate more money for himself in the middle of the playoffs doesn’t sit well with me. Incredibly selfish to be such a distraction for your team.
Brind’Amour makes no adjustments and has his pets. The PP was horrible.
He insisted on keeping Kuznetsov on the 4th line and almost no PP time . Yet he still finished tied 2nd on the team in goals in the playoffs. He clearly is a game breaker with high end skill….yet Rod kept him with non skill guys. Sticking a skilled guy on a 4th line is such a waste.
Meanwhile his faves like Martinook never fell out of top 6 mins with 2 goals the entire playoffs. Same with Teravainen.
Then there Staal. He scored 1 goal. It was a great goal, but 1 frigging goal for a guy Rod played in every important situation. At this stage Staal is a 4th line center. But Brind’Amour insisted on using him as #2 bc he’s old and Rod likes him.
At some point, when things weren’t going well, you’d hope the coach would mix things up. Try different lines. The PP killed them….change it up….but Brind’Amour is stubborn and sticks to what his plan was