TopShelfSnipes
Ella Shelton > Ryan Lindgren + it's not even close
I liked Quinn's systems best, but couldn't stand his player deployment and personality. Spring '20, pre-Covid, was the best the team looked as a whole in a long time.
Torts was, and always will be, a clown in my eyes.
AV was exactly the same as GG. Could be good coaches, haven't actually won anything, but are seen as good because their teams win in the regular season. Yet, they fall into predictable bad habits, fall in love with terrible players and play favorites, and limit themselves in the lineup moves they are willing to make for accountability.
The only "star" player GG is willing to demote is Kreider. Doesn't touch Panarin, Zibanejad, Trocheck, or Goodrow. Meanwhile, can't stop punishing the kids. Whenever they're losing, no matter what the line combos were or how successful they've been, he will invariably start changing them during the second period and the move is ALWAYS putting a grinder on so-called "scoring line" which never actually fixes what's wrong with the offense...in fact, it usually makes it worse.
That is 100% on the coach, and that he refuses to change things that are clearly not working like 10 and 16 on the same line speaks volumes about his stubornness. Look at the body of the game and stop hiding behind stupid mantras like "coach's decision."
For a coach to allow the players to run everything in the room with the "eh, who cares?" attitude GG shows is a joke, and reeks of laziness or "can't be bothered." Doesn't have to be overbearing, but needs to make clear he is in charge.
I mean, you don't see the good teams breaking up their top lines every 2nd period when they're losing. Crap, Colorado's losing guys (pretend they're healthy)...time to demote Rantanen to the third line and bring up Logan O'Connor! NOPE.
That said, there was a post by someone here once asking why fans had so much confidence in Drury, because "all he's done is steal money from this organization" which is something I'm inclined to agree with. Nice guy, but was extremely mediocre and overrated as a player, and I will forever be mad at him for the Buchnevich deal because that is EXACTLY the kind of player we could use right about now, who was young and homegrown.
Instead of moving Strome and not signing Nemeth (which would have saved a ton of cap space - more than trading Buch did), he traded Buch for probably the worst player I've seen on Ranger ice in my lifetime (Blais is a non-fighting Tanner Glass), and has consistently blocked Chytil - first with Strome and now with Trocheck, and it's been apparent for a while Chytil has more to give (also, spending a big chunk of last year buried may have had something to do with Chytil's offensive totals).
So I have zero confidence in Drury to do the right thing.
