Buddy we're all still waiting for a post where you're not complaining about 'complaining.'
Blake hasn't coached at a high level though.
No, the problem you have is that you have some good insight, but you always seem to drop some decent insight followed by an implicit or explicit "by the way you're all stupid." You don't respond to stats because they're flawed, you don't respond to criticism because you're smarter than everyone, you don't respond to opinions because everyone is wrong but you, and you don't respond to anything that would make you look less-than-perfect without some seething rage.
If you could drop the smartest-man-in-the-room charade--and yes, that's exactly what it is, because I don't give a **** about your background, you've proven to know exactly ****all more than other posters here--you'd be a fun read and a productive poster instead of an insufferable, mouth-frothing rageposter.
In short, get over yourself or stop posting. Please.
Naw the only person who gets the, you're all stupid post, is Sol, and that's just, because his post history lives up to that, everyone else is just reading what they want into it.
Absolutely respond to stats, in fact, here's one, Kings have ZERO PPGs, guess what, that's not good, but you do realize stats can be, are now, and will always be, manipulated to whoever is quoting them's point of view.
I asked this years ago, would you rather have a player that has 50G and 50A or one that has 20 G and 80 A and overwhelmingly people chose the 50G and 50A guy without realizing that both choices results in 100 G, so yea, you can manipulate stats all you want, another point, just now, guy says JAD has a higher win percentage than Thompson to prove his point that Thompson is terrible...well JAD has SEVEN faceoffs per ESPN, now ESPN can be wrong, but going off of stats, that's a manipulated stat, to prove a point.
I've never implied, or said, or otherwise indicated I was the smartest one in the room, I do have a higher than normal knowledge of the game, and the pro aspect of it, that's just from experience, so when I mention something like, the reason Wagner might not be suited to the rigors of NHL games because he MAY be the type of player that beats himself up and loses confidence over every mistake, that's because I've seen it and been next to it, and it happens, I don't know if that's the case with Wagner, but as an organization, I would rather they make sure he's ready, and do what's best for him, rather than roll him out there because "Clifford is terrible" which is another nonsense that fans subscribe to, Clifford is a 4th line player designed to play 6-8 minutes, bang around, crash, try to get everyone else energized, which is exactly what he does, and yet again, you have fans claiming get rid of him!! etc, it's nonsensical to get rid of a player like Clifford so you can play Rempal on the 4th line for 6 minutes, that does nothing for Rempal at all...now that he's up and going to have his cup of coffee, everyone's like, OMG they are playing him with Thompson.....and not looking at the bigger picture, you have ZERO idea what you are going to get with Rempal, do you want him on the 1st line, possibly not able to keep up and drag that line down, no, how about the 2nd, no, the 3rd? maybe put him there instead of Lewis, but you don't know, maybe that happens sometime during the game, or the next etc, people aren't willing to give anything a chance...before they bitch and complain over it.
Now you will go back and say, but it isn't a day to day thing, it's all of last season to etc, which I pointed out in one post, everyone was praising Stevens when they were winning and scoring....what changed? Only one poster had anything intelligent to say on that, and said Turgeon left, and that precipitated the change, which if that is true, Blake has to have a long, deep conversation.
I still subscribe to the fact that Stevens is trying to implement a system that the players aren't comfortable with, and aren't buying into yet, because they aren't seeing results from it.
