Thing that bothers me with him is that hes not willing to make changes when things aren’t working.
The bottom 6 has been suffering all year. The last while the top lines not clicking. The special teams haven’t been working. Virtually no changes.
Why is so hard to run McDavid, Drai, and RNH down the middle and see what happens? Or try Drai with RNH or McD with RNH? I just don’t understand.
He loves certain players way too much.
He is completely stubborn to try anything else when things aren’t working. But to make matters even more confusing, when a young player makes a mistake which results in nothing, they get demoted. Seen it numerous times with JP and Yama.
Can you imagine a situation in game 65 when they are out of the playoffs and TM decides to play McD and Strome for the first time and finds out they have chemistry and all of a sudden they have depth.
If he kept McD and Drai together because nothing was working it would be one thing but he doesn’t even try anything else.
We can blame Chiarelli. Some of this is on him. But I don’t see how a coach with McD, Drai and RNH (especially with how he’s playing) down the middle isn’t in a playoff spot. Its still earlyish but things get more bleak with how inconsistent this team is.
Its pretty apparent that TM cant adjust in game. I used to think he was pretty good between games but I am starting to wonder about that as well.