No. You can't coach scared. He's allowed the team to turtle far too often and this is the result. They have to change the system such that offense is an expectation, not an occasional dalliance.
I do think it’s fair to criticize the style that he coached in this post season. It was shades of Travis Green at times.
I do think the team as a whole tended to play a lot differently based on who was in net. They looked like a different animal with Demko back there. Which is too bad - I get DeSmith was very erratic, but Silovs gave them everything they had.
Long term, figuring out Petey is the biggest concern. His performance in this playoff was just not good enough - if it’s a mental issue, I hope he gets hooked up with a good sport psychiatrist and gets it sorted.
Interested to hear who else was playing through what - Hronek finally unleashed a bomb in this game, but it seems evident he was playing through something.
Have to hope we can make a concerted effort to retain Lindholm, Zadorov and (even though he wasn’t great tonight) Joshua. They were big keys for us.
Hope we can improve on some of our bottom six and defensive depth. Free agency will be interesting to follow this off season.
Sucks that Demko didn’t get a chance to come back - and sucks they couldn’t win it for Brock.
But I’m glad we broke our curse of scoring in Game 7s, and that we showed some spine at the end and made it close.
I’ll be cheering for Tanev and the Stars. Really didn’t like what I saw from the Oilers or their fans this round (media sucked too). I hope the Stars roll them.