He's been horrible this year. Love the player but let's get serious. His puck management and d zone positioning has been atrocious. He can be way better. League worst plus minus and it's been well deserved. He creates offense but it comes at a serious price.
For such a night and day switch, it almost has to be something like the HC pressure between the ears.
same coach does not mean much. Players change as the get older. DIfferent buttons need to be pressed and guys need to be put in different situations. Batherson has not really had to pay for not playing defensively yet.
Well, you certainly have adopted the ‘coach is to blame’ mantra hook line and sinker, I’ll give you that.
DBC still not scoring i do put part of the blame on the coaching for sure. I think they are doing great with Brady and Sanderson though they can also spread the PP time with branny sandy and chabot and icetime to no run Chabot into the ground.
DBC has been playing pretty awesome hockey all around right now, he’s just been snake bitten in the tons of chances he’s getting. Another post tonight, sadly the coach can’t score goals for him, but he’s endlessly in good position to score and getting a ton of ice time. Conversely, Batherson has also had a ton of opportunity but is struggling.
I think hs iin the top three of problems on this team. Maybe No.1
DJ on the ice right now, doing some shooting drills with DBC. He is showing him how to take a wrist shot and aim for the corners, not the logo. He even has Mike Fisher on the ice talking to him about the dangers of shooting for the logo as it cost him 200 goals in the NHL.
I dont understand why you are so against a coaching change? It has been proven time and time again that it can set a team in the right direction. Coaches generally don't last through a rebuild
I’m not necessarily against it at, in fact I had mentioned previously that it might be necessary in order to jump start the team if they didn’t get back on track. That’s not the issue though, it’s how you use DJ to blame for everything, now that Zaitsev was gone.
I'm generally for a coaching change but the argument against it is examples of teams that stuck it out and found success, so for example, many were calling for Ruff to be fired after a slow start this year, now NJD are arguably the best team in the league, people were calling for Cooper to be fired after TBay got swept in the first round, they went up to win back to back cups, there are a number of examples over the years and I guess some worry DJ could be the next since he's always had a bit of a flawed roster to work with.
