Let's list your claims you have failed to back up. These are just off the top of my head:
- the only reason certain players got less ice time is because the coaches don't trust him yet.
- coaches lie to the media all the time
- I coached at a higher level than all of you and if you actually knew what you were talking about you'd have a job as a coach
- they aren't playing with confidence
If you responded with fewer platitudes and provided actual insight based off your so-called greater professional experience you'd be taken more seriously. But you antagonize all of us lowly fans and refuse to give credit for any valid points.
While many fans DO overreact and just look to blame a single source, there have been multiple valid criticisms of Stevens' decisions.
- claiming they haven't had enough practice, then don't have practice the same week.
- keeping a pairing together which has produced the worst metrics for many years
- having the whole team look completely out of sync the first four games. Today was the first game where I feel the team as a whole played better and individuals made poor decisions
- even if it's a confidence issue, he's still the coach and he needs to get in touch with the pulse of the team. This is what Sutter was a master at.
So whether the entire team was confused or lacking confidence, a problem with the entire team is on the coach. An unprepared team, such as one that didn't touch the ice since their last game and plays flat-footed, is on the coach. Right now he's looking more like a "cool dad" who sees his kid is bringing home all F's on his progress report card and got arrested for tagging a church.
Claims I have failed to back up?
I literally just showed you the ice time from Amadio and JAD, how it went up each game...
Coaches lie to the media all the time....ok, I mean, I didn't really think I had to back that up, common sense would dictate that the coach, even if he feels that a player downright f***ed it all up, isn't going to the media and telling him, that player just done f***ed it all up....that's just common sense...
I have coached at a higher level than most here, and I never said they they would have a job, I was surprised that with all the insight, no one has applied, big difference, probably a bit facetious, but it drove home the point.
But hey, let's take a look at yours...
Claims they haven't had enough practice, only place I can find that he said that, is someone on here said he said that, but EVEN if he did say that, not having a practice the day after a tough night game, and before a day game start....really, that's what you are going to pin on bad coaching?
Keeping a pairing together that has produced worst metrics...ok, sure, if hockey was played by a computer, you might be right, be in the real world, those metrics don't mean much...case in point, on the 4th goal, Muzzin-Martinez on the ice, you want to argue that the PAIRING ITSELF, is responsible for Martinez making a boneheaded decision to step up to a player standing still and ignore the puck coming down? That's your argument, that if it was Martinez and LaDue, it wouldn't be the pairing, but just Martinez? That's asinine.
The whole team has looked out of sync for various reasons, coaches trying to implement a system they aren't familiar with, or not buying into is one of them, them playing through hesitation and fear of making a mistake, another....
As far as the team playing flat footed and blaming that on not having a practice...that's again, asinine. It's hindsight at it's best, and if they had come out strong, it would have been a "good" move etc, it's nonsense.
It's a long season, for them not to have a practice after a hard night game, and an early day game the following day, oh boy, the horror.
EDIT: At least you had the balls to put down what you thought was wrong, other than STEVENS SUCKS and leave it at that....
