Gary Nylund
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- Oct 10, 2013
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By "all these coaches" you mean 2 coaches. And one of them is the same coach who also put Marleau and Johnsson and Hyman on the top PP unit instead of Nylander.
And I don't have to write a letter to Keefe, since he instantly put Nylander on the top unit, like any sensible coach would.
Colorado has a coach as well so that's three coaches actually.
Not every team stacks their top PP unit either. I would have if I was the coach so I actually agree with you but I don't think it's the kind of thing where you can say Babcock was 100% wrong to try it. Though he is of course stubborn as a mule and resistant to change which isn't good.
As far as Marleau goes, Babcock was smart enough to cut his ice time in the playoffs when the results really counted as opposed to just coasting through the last few months of the season. Infact in his last season here, he cut it quite drastically so he's not quite as dumb as some people might think.
It's easy to criticize, especially easy to do so with hindsight and I'm not saying Babs doesn't deserve criticism, no one was happier than I was when he was discarded. Sometimes it's worth remembering though that a lot goes on behind the scenes that we don't know about so perhaps we as fans should be more willing to give coaches the benefit of the doubt every now and then.