I said before careful with who you acquire for this coach which isn't unreasonable when you look at personnel and player usage this year and throughout his career
But sure we can go your route and turn off our brains and hail our all knowing coaching overlord where everything is part of the plan, like Komarov on the second line playing 24 minutes and Polak suiting up most nights even though he sucks
Whoa hey, don’t let me get in the way of all that
thinking you’re doing. Let’s not overwork our brains considering the possibility that there is a plan, let’s leave it to the
thinkers to assume the professionals don’t have one. I hope you don’t hurt yourself not considering that the Leafs are dishing out minutes with an 82 game season in mind and not skating their top players into the ground in the first 2 3rds of the season. Instead let’s just use our brains and say 1st line most all situations minutes, 2nd line 2nd most All situations minutes. Don’t get a headache taking into consideration the new completely new sports science department and how it has drastically changed how player personnel decisions are made both for return from injuries and player longevity. So much so as that “stubborn” Babcock, once a “drive your best players into the ground” coach now evenly balances minutes. I hope you don’t risk passing out from not thinking about the scheduling, upcoming teams, home ice advantage and potential matchups that go into deciding when a kid should start playing his first game in the NHL and what kind of usage he should start with against which players.
Instead, we will leave it to the
thinkers of Leafland to triumphantly parade into a PGT after a loss to flood us with their
thinking of how Babcock lost us the game. For if at the end of the season the Leafs lose, they will do the hard work of telling us it is for these well
thought out reasons; and if the Leafs win it all, they did not win it all hard enough.
To these
thinking saviours of Leafland, I salute you.
