I'm not going to sit here all day arguing, largely because I respect you as a poster, and I learn a great deal from your posts. That said, for 20 years, I taught statistics for a living, and I can make any statistic say anything I want it to. So can you, as evidenced by these three points.
Causation and correlation are two completely different concepts. Sure, they were 6th in wins when trailing after 1 period. However, they were 1st in the league in regulation wins. So how did they go from 1st to 6th? They had the 1st best winning percentage in the league. So having the third best while trailing after 1 period cannot be evidence of good adjustments. In fact, none of these statistics establish that the result is due to Bednar making adjustments. I posit that all of your stats can be better attributed to individual efforts than coaching adjustments. The fact that DeBoer is behind in these categories really makes my point. DeBoer gets outcoached routinely, except when coaching against Bednar. I'm not trying to be an ass, but you choose to quote statistics, but also chalk up losses to 'the team just not having it that night'. This is not golf, where Koepka or Lefty might not 'have it' for 18 holes. In fact, that explicitly proves my point. There are 18 players on a team. If all 18 'just don't have it that night', then that is the coach's fault. And if it is only 1 or two players who are off, then it is the coach's job to adjust, and by that, I do not mean the Blender.
Also, while unscientific, Bednar has a full week to look at tape, and see Vegas' tendencies. DeBoer had about 12 hours. Yet Vegas figured how how to stop our D Zone exists, and how to corner MacK. I can't see a single thing Bednar learned from having a week longer.
As an experiment, let's count every shot, for both teams, which hit the post as an actual goal. The Avs get clobbered in games 2 and 3. Not dissimilarly, Mikko only needed about a half inch to slide in the tying goal. And if we selectively cheat, and say that only Saad's dink off the post went in, then the Avs are likely 3 - 0 in the series due to puck luck, and without a milligram of adjustment by Bednar while being obviously outplayed for 5 straight periods ( I am certain you agree with that stat.) This is where I submit that any statistic be matched with the eye test.
No less than a dozen people on this forum have stated that Bednar does not want to change anything until he loses. If that is not the definition of not adjusting, I really do not know what is. I don't care if we win every game with JTC as 2C, there is nothing you can do to convince me that he should be 2C.
Again, Bednar might be a terrific Director of Hockey Operations. He stuck with Jost, and it seems like that might pan out to give him a 3C who can occasionally play 2C, as well as a viable replacement for Calvert on the PK. I like the move to put Newhook and Ranta in at home, where we have the last change. However, once the whistle blows, the Avs need a superior game manager, and that is the job of the Head Coach.