| What changes need to be made? [message #852185] |
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 HamBlaster
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Registered: June 2007
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Well, that was one rollercoaster of a season. I think we all saw this coming, considering the kind of ho hum hockey the team played for most of the campaign. There were so many problems with this roster.
- Goaltending remains a glaring issue, magnified by a lack of team commitment to D.
- Our squad was exposed by Anaheim's team speed and agility, consistently beating the Oilers to pucks and applying a relentless and productive forecheck (very similar to the Panthers).
- We have "leaders" on this team that have poor body language far too often, are dismissive, and seem to choose when they'll follow the script or just go off and do their own thing.
- We have coaching that is possibly as blasé as anything I've ever seen, an automaton at the helm that offers canned and frequently repeated answers after every substandard or catastrophic result. Knoblauch often just stares off into the horizon, searching for answers that seem to present themselves to better coaches.
- We have a pro scouting staff that has managed to convince management to pick up some god awful players and re-sign one in particular to a total nonsense contract.
- The amateur scouting is borderline (I'll give them a pass for now as we've consistently given them little to work with).
- The President of Hockey Ops is some mess of a guy that eradicated core elements of our pipeline just as they were emerging in favour of complete busts that lasted one year with the team.
It was a mess.
Where do we even start?
[Updated on: Fri, 01 May 2026 06:56]
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The easiest change will be the coaching staff, not just one, but outside of Coffey, I think they all go this time. There has been no adaptation on the fly, whether the players were asked and just did not do I do not know, but the result is the same.
Fredrick needs a new home, if you can not make the roster in playoffs then you need to move on.
Beyond that the team just never gelled this year, they never seemed in sync, they could get it for a game or 3 max, but generally only one or two periods. Maybe they are all just burnt out, to much hockey.
The scouting etc has proven that they do not understand how to find the missing pieces, there is no Kurri to McDavid, no Anderson to Drai, they cannot find the required pieces, and maybe that is on our stars.
Like everyone eles I do not have the answers, but I am certainly not surprised by the outcome of this series.
Will be interesting off season to see what happens.
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