I brought DET in the mix...because you continue to blame Q for everything...Keith plays like crap - Q's fault. Craw gives up weak goals...Q.
Where you can name any team other than the 1 that wins the Cup and I can tear apart/blame the coach for every single short coming. Bylsma? Got schooled in the first round this year. Lost to a shitty MTL team...and has the 2 best offensive players/MVPs in the league...and a cup winning goaltender..
Dude, I do not blame Q for the individual players performances. For crissakes man, where in Chat or threads these last few days have I blamed Crawford's being middling on Q? I keep saying this is just Corey, Rockford Corey. Yeah, I don't trust this D except for Seabiscuit based on the past season and because they drove me insane all year I don't trust the coaching to be able to "fix" it but I didn't say the coaching is what made the D perform poorly while they were performing it. Therefore I want to inject more studly skill into it via Suter and if given my dithers diff. goaltending. I blame Q for performances when I feel it's warranted and it is almost always in the context of me not liking the way he fucks with players' minds and therefore their confidence or fucks with their development. See: Brouwer, Troy or Lepisto, Sami, or Stalberg, Viktor. I will blame him for when I feel players are frustrated and it affects their play because they can't get any chemistry or consistency with the incessant line changing.
Conversely, even though I don't like his coaching stylings I have always given him credit for seeming to do better with developing newbies and in general fresh, untapped, young rosters full of talent---I have said before he is effective at coaching young, talented teams. I've said before he got The Ginger to buy in after his first season and indeed The Ginger looked much better his 2nd season and their coach-player relationship looked fine as a result. It's just that after players get past that maturity stage with him they seem to stall and his effectiveness with them seems to wear off. But I also think a lot of coaches could work magic with these young, untapped, talented teams so I don't know that it's that much of an endorsement to say it other than I think he's able to do what a lot of coaches are able to do with talented, young teams. I do not blame Q for the decisions that players make on the ice other than bullshit like their directives for the overall PP for example or the endlessly unnecessary TMMI penalties, because what's Einstein's definition of insanity?
I do believe the current team doesn't buy into any system he's trying to sell. This assumes there is a system and people keep telling me there definitely is a system he wants even though I personally don't see it. Yeah, not getting buy-in it's ultimately on the coaches as in you can't ultimately have effective long-term head coaching without it. I said Keith and Hammer played like shit and I kept waiting for it to change, that's on Keith and Hammer. I made the same assertions screaming out as much in chats all season as I thought the brainfarting would end after the Purge Roster season. I didn't say Q made them play poorly or make poor decisions. But as a coach he doesn't seem to be able to get through to players D or F and get them playing better either IMO so in the end that's ineffective coaching in my book.
Understand this, I am not someone who has become disenchanted with Q during his tenure here---I never wanted him here period. I didn't like the signing. I didn't like the patterns I saw with his other teams. So sue me. I blame him for a lot of shit from the Random Line Generator, to panicing disguised as coaching adjustments, to mis-slotting, to not having the ability to have them be game ready mentally or engery or engagement-wise, to willfully mismanaging player minutes, to not believing he knows how to harness and work with the talent he has and maximize results from it but I don't sit around and ***** him out for players' on ice decisions, play, and deficiencies. Good grief man you clearly have never been around in GD chats where I scream that the fucking handsomely paid CORE needs to fucking hustle, show some engagement in the game and effort and fucking score like they're expected to or else play a sound Team D game.