no you both completely ignored my point
The Flames are terrible every year to start the season. 90% hit the panic button. This team always gets its way out of it and back into the playoff race. It’s a pattern based on the time in the season. That’s not on coaching.
This team is coached well, yes it would be nice to get Laviolette but who honestly would want to come coach for a fan base as clueless and overly passionate as Calgary who throw the coach under the bus time and time again? This team is inconsistent and that is a motivational thing. The players have never played well at the start, or shown mental strength at the start of the year. That’s on them. They can’t rely on the coach to motivate them. You think Michael Jordan relied on the coach to motivate him? It’s just pure garbage. This fan base freaks out at the start of the season every year and this team always figure it out.
Are you arguing we should give a pass every year to the team for not being ready to start the season? This organization has struggled to start a year all the way back to Iginla. Was he a bad leader? Or have we constantly brought in sub par coaches who can't convince players to buy in?
Ironically Jordan's coach literally taught him how to win in the NBA by using his teammates and working as a team instead of individual effort, because he is one of the greatest coaches in nba history if not the best.
Almost every coach we have had in a decade plus is out of the league immediately after coaching for us or an assistant on a bad team, there has to be a reason for that.
If all you want is to be in the playoff race then you will absolutely love the flames we are always close to being a good team.
Fans aren't clueless for watching other teams find success and asking why we can't.