Flowah
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- Nov 30, 2009
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That's the question I ask myself.The Wings have one of the worst rosters in the NHL. They are roughly right where they should be in the standings... How does this make Blashill a bad coach? If there is a coach out there that can squeeze a few extra wins out of this roster, why would we want that?
Let's say we had Scotty f***ing Bowman behind the bench. How many more wins is he worth? 5? 10? 10 is the best case scenario imo and it does nothing but take us out of contention for a high pick. We're definitely still far from a playoff threat with and outside looking in with regards to even wildcard playoff bubble teams.
We cry about consistency and consistent effort but I'm of the belief that that's just a proxy for skill. It looks like a lack of consistent effort mostly because the players aren't good enough. So they don't know where to be, what to do with the puck, who to cover, whatever, because the hockey sense/skills just aren't there. And that looks like laziness sometimes. Some of that is surely coaching but most of it has to be on the players. Hockey isn't like football. You can't draw up the entire play. It's way too fluid. At some point players just have to know what to do even when it's not part of the script.