Last night, Aly reported that Cronin has a list of five to six items the team needs to improve upon. Guy interjected that Cronin is giving too many instructions that it could be very confusing and that maybe the team just needs to simplify things. Just go to basics and work on that. Then add one item once everyone's comfy.
With so many youths, the many instructions could be freezing them mentally. The older vets can process the many instructions b/c they've been there and done that.
The problem with Cronin is the lack of growth across the board. Under Eakins, he had both youths and vets improving. Eakins had Terry in San Diego where Terry was great, but Terry struggled at the NHL level. Eakins helped Terry at the NHL level to reach that 37 goal achievement. Z hit 60+ points twice under Eakins, including his rookie season. Drysdale scored 32 points in his rookie season. Fowler hit career highs in scoring in consecutive seasons. Pugilist Des learned to become a PKer for us.
As for our PP, that's not on Cronin. New asst coach Clune is in charge of the PP. Clune is worse than Brown, but it's also a small sample. That sample result is still blowing chunks.
Verbeek may value development differently from us such as making physical training a part of a player's daily diet and that constitutes as a vastly positive improvement in Verbeek's eyes, which is a positive improvement in the culture PV wants to build. At 58 points, Verbeek discarded Eakins quickly like a used paper towel. At 58 points with Cronin last year, Verbeek was all rainbows and sunshine because his vision of culture and compete was aligned with Cronin.
Cronin isn't going anywhere this year because the metric for development is probably being satisfied for Verbeek.
