ChaosAgent
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- May 8, 2018
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I don't think much of the Brotherhood of NHL Coaches™ whatsoever and think with a lot of coaches, you see guys who see themselves in these 4th line grinders so they develop a fondness. But the jump from "Sullivan is a flawed coach way past his expiration date" to "Sullivan is a xenophobic dickhead who reviles Euros and has tanked Kap's game because of bigotry" is just some exceptional, first ballot hall of fame shit for HFboards.
The neverending debate since I've started following hockey is whether an out-of-form top-6 talent, or an enigmatic top-6 talent, is the better bottom-6 player than some boring NA mucker/grinder.
The more I watch the more I'm convinced that the Brotherhood of Coaches are right: the boring NA plug is more effective. Maybe this is just personal preference, but this is why I'm so negative on the skill guys when they aren't producing. Modern NHL only rewards risk-taking, or trying to make skilled plays, if it converts at a high enough clip. Once you get below that you're better off with some NPC character such as Aston-Reese. Kap is an unskilled skill/speed guy, a hindrance offensively, but at least he gives it 100% defensively which is cool.