Then I lost respect for Bowness when his team lost the next round and he blamed injuries
Bowness is a decent to good coach who comes up short in the end and has somehow become very overrated
Dallas - loses to Tampa and obviously its injuries fault not just that the Stars were on a Cinderella run.
As the D and PK coach for the Bolts - loses to the pseudo dynasty Hawks and even though it went 6 it just never really felt like the Bolts could win it. The year after he leaves is the sweep and then the year after is when they turn god tier defence in front of Vasi.
As the D and PK coach for the Canucks - we all saw that absolute debacle of a Finals in 2011 though 8 goals in 7 games wasn’t his fault. Blaming that series on Luongo when he had to have 2 shutouts and a 2GA game for them to even get to game 7 is stupid. They also got destroyed by the Kings in 5 games as the President’s trophy winner then swept by the Sharks of all teams. They literally had to bring in Mellanson to completely change Luongo’s game to play deeper because the Bowness D was leaving him too vulnerable to cross crease passes