We're all grateful he pulled his head out of his ass, stopped scratching Vermette and TT, matched Toews vs. Getzlaf instead of Kesler, and put Kane and Toews together. Like most people were asking for....the entire series.
"He owned Boudreau" isn't exactly high praise, either. Only TWO teams in the history of the NHL have lost game 7, at home, three seasons in a row. Both were coached by Boudreau. He's probably getting fired again before next season, to boot....
I always love these posts praising Q for, once again, doing what everyone was asking him to do all along.
Let's see if he can continue to use common sense in the TB series before sucking his dick, shall we?
How's Jeremy Morin doing? You were begging for him to be played too. And the next playoff game Pirri ever plays, will be his first ever as a professional. You were sucking their dicks too. You claim that Roszival, Timonen and Runblad aren't even NHL defenceman - so Q has lead his team to the Cup with only 4 NHL defencemen. Let alone the claim Bickell is useless - so only 11 forwards. Not bad coaching a team that short handed.
But I digress. Game 2 went about 6 hours, and less than 48 hours later they had another game. Kruger was hurt. I'm pretty sure the coaches/team were the only ones that will know how bad. With him being a question mark to play let alone finish game 3 - he inserted Nordstrom (who can kill penalties) and Versteeg who can play any 3 forward position. If something happened with Kruger going down - the team had more options than Vermette and TT who only play 5 on 5 (Vermette had 1g in the playoffs up to that point). And the Hawks had just played 9 periods of hockey with what, 2 ES goal? And the fact is - they didn't lose the game because of the line up but the fact the Hawks went 0 for 5 on the PP was the reason they lost that game - including 8min on the PP in the first period.
None of us have any idea of injuries, matchups, or the makeup of the locker room and what the team needs. Q/the Hawks have an uncanny ability to understand it's a playoff series - not a playoff game. The fact that he is 40-14 record from game 4-7 in his Hawk coaching career would lead some smart people to understand he has shown the ability to have the pulse of the team as well as the other team, make adjustments to win.
While ever move made doesn't always work, the majority of them have been pretty successful. So you're not impressed he outcoached Boudreau on the road in a gm7 conference final, not impressed with 5 conf finals in 7 years, or the 2 cups he's won here, or his playoff record....at this point there's nothing the guy will do that you will like. Everyone gets it.
So who do you want coaching this team? Have a solution. Give a name of the perfect NHL coach other than you that will run the team perfectly the way you want.
Someone that never loses
Someone that never shuffles lineups - either between games or during games
Someone that plays the rookies/unproven players at all times regardless of mistakes
Give me that coach's names that will appease you.
