theguardianII
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So far the gruff talk has been backed up by sitting SOME players.
Through his media pressers he talks alot about areas of play that 3rd and 4th liners are expected to play or those that are on the top two lines as the defensive player or swiss army knife for all aspects of the game.
He is alot like Green, his style and apparent expectations but few of the players on this team can or should be turned into 3rd/4th line grinders.
Garland? Boeser? Kuzmenko? all seem to be not playing to potential. Boeser is getting points they all are but the team still loses and now the goal seems to be winning board battles, the stuff done in junior hockey.
What he wants IMHO, is not contusive to most of the players. Some have been goal scorers and are being paid for that.
Soon he will, again IMO, alienate some players.
I worry about his insistence for inclusion in trades when he is so lacking in knowledge of the team. It does not appear that he has examined the last 5 years of these players playing or the results of those seasons. I would hate to see who he thinks should be drafted. He was out of hockey all together for years living in Vegas just doing game by game analysis and now inclusion?
Optimism is fine but ignorance is not. Whose team is it anyway? Allvin and the Chipmunks have taken over a year to decide and now there is a new voice that knows next to nothing about the team's history to listen to? Really?
How many times can this happen where the "new person" needs another year to figure it out? Are they really anyway or is it just another delaying tactic and attempt to sell hope? They keep doing this and the team could move and then an new franchise here in 10 years may be quicker to winning a cup than delay, delay, delay for every new person hired.
Tocchet has not had time to do anything other than talk to the players, if all he needed was 8 practices then he would be a genius and would have had a job other than laughing at what was happening in Vancouver before he was hired.
The players on this team are the result of three different builds, they are a Frankenstein that need major surgery.
He gets hired after the tough part of the schedule is over, wins a few games and suddenly the message is changed and getting through but the team still needs to score 5 goals to be close. What change?
You know he wants Chychrun here he was his coach when the kid entered the league and Tocchet played the hell out of him. But the kid is flawed now, to brittle, he loved Garland too. Miller is his kind of shit disturber in the room because he is too old school. Chychrun would cost the Canucks 3 years of the future and Pettersson but Tocchet wants inclusion.
Through his media pressers he talks alot about areas of play that 3rd and 4th liners are expected to play or those that are on the top two lines as the defensive player or swiss army knife for all aspects of the game.
He is alot like Green, his style and apparent expectations but few of the players on this team can or should be turned into 3rd/4th line grinders.
Garland? Boeser? Kuzmenko? all seem to be not playing to potential. Boeser is getting points they all are but the team still loses and now the goal seems to be winning board battles, the stuff done in junior hockey.
What he wants IMHO, is not contusive to most of the players. Some have been goal scorers and are being paid for that.
Soon he will, again IMO, alienate some players.
I worry about his insistence for inclusion in trades when he is so lacking in knowledge of the team. It does not appear that he has examined the last 5 years of these players playing or the results of those seasons. I would hate to see who he thinks should be drafted. He was out of hockey all together for years living in Vegas just doing game by game analysis and now inclusion?
Optimism is fine but ignorance is not. Whose team is it anyway? Allvin and the Chipmunks have taken over a year to decide and now there is a new voice that knows next to nothing about the team's history to listen to? Really?
How many times can this happen where the "new person" needs another year to figure it out? Are they really anyway or is it just another delaying tactic and attempt to sell hope? They keep doing this and the team could move and then an new franchise here in 10 years may be quicker to winning a cup than delay, delay, delay for every new person hired.
Tocchet has not had time to do anything other than talk to the players, if all he needed was 8 practices then he would be a genius and would have had a job other than laughing at what was happening in Vancouver before he was hired.
The players on this team are the result of three different builds, they are a Frankenstein that need major surgery.
He gets hired after the tough part of the schedule is over, wins a few games and suddenly the message is changed and getting through but the team still needs to score 5 goals to be close. What change?
You know he wants Chychrun here he was his coach when the kid entered the league and Tocchet played the hell out of him. But the kid is flawed now, to brittle, he loved Garland too. Miller is his kind of shit disturber in the room because he is too old school. Chychrun would cost the Canucks 3 years of the future and Pettersson but Tocchet wants inclusion.
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