it's mind boggling that over an 82 games season he would start considering to line match 5 games before the playoffs started. And that was likely in his 3rd year.
Coaches seem so stubborn about the regular season, treating every game as if our playoff lives depended on a Friday in Columbus. Half the damn league makes the playoffs. Try some new things, lines, approaches. Start testing line matches for that team we will face in a playoff run.
I am glad Bruce has changed but wish George would have suggested he started doing what other coaches have been doing for decades on end, if not in year 1 of the league.
Bruce jamming Ovi down their throats got us into the playoffs. Lets expand on your approach a bit - and we may well still have Bruce here today.
I guess its easy to see why our prospects struggle with George overlooking them yet not really having a plan. He just watches.