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Oscargasm wrote on Sun, 20 January 2019 08:11

g2k wrote on Sun, 20 January 2019 08:28

The coach of this team reminds me of the Iraqi Information Officer at times, but in his defence it’s much better than the butt hurt father figure approach.


I didn’t hear it personally, but a buddy of mine told me that during the broadcast Randorf had mentioned Hitchcock stated pregame that his message to the room was to not get sucked into the chippy game. If true, for a team with well documented ‘sensitivity’ issues, that message alone can explain why they didn’t show anything resembling a pulse for a large part of the game for being to afraid to engage and take a penalty. There were an obscene amount of penalties taken last night, most of the ‘huh’ variety (on both teams). But in a BoA you KNOW Calgary is going to come out, be engaged and play that style of game.. especially against McDavid. And there was no answer all night. Zero response.

Kassian’s turtle joke on Tkachuk was funny, don’t get me wrong. But it did nothing but get some laughs.

If you’re not going to push back when your best player is getting hacked, whacked (and not the good kinda whacked), mauled and abused... what’s the point of putting on the jersey? What’s the point of saying ‘we play for each other’, when it’s clear you don’t. Last night was another example of playing with each other (and not the good kind of playing with each other).

Maybe Hitch isn’t the answer behind the bench, with this sad sack of a roster.

Yeah, I feel when the game was within reach they were pretty careful not to get sucked into bad penalties. Yet like you say, odd penalties were still being called both ways.

They were being careful until Manning threw away any hope of a comeback. That play was not careful at all. Untimely to say the least.



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