I’m sorry Mikey, but quite frankly, it doesn’t matter if Torts is the best coach we’ve ever had. I’m willing to admit that, because he is. But when he took over, the bar he had to clear for that was so low that it shouldn’t matter. He very clearly doesn’t meet the next bar, which is coaching an actual contending team.
Hockey isn’t “whoever plays hardest wins” like Torts still seems to think based on his comments for the past month. He needs to be doing a lot more than he is to help this team be successful.
The players are playing nervously (not badly) because on the ice, they can see that every team knows exactly how we play and exactly how to play against it. That’s why we haven’t been scoring. Not a lack of confidence but because teams know how to keep us from getting legitimate scoring chances, and it’s been almost 2 months of it now and Torts has done **** all to adjust to the fact that the book on playing his version of the CBJ is widely circulated.