| 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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