BlueandYellow wrote:
sabretoothpick wrote:
Displaced Fan wrote:
sabretoothpick wrote:
BagBoy wrote:
The TSN message boards have Lindy going to Colorado, NY Rangers, Columbus, Edmonton, Toronto, the GM in Toronto, etc. Someone said that some team will fire their current coach just to get Ruff. Popular sentiment appears to be that Regier should have gotten the axe, not Lindy.
That's how I feel. I think Regier is more responsible for the lack of success than Ruff.
Think about the outrage when Ruff wins a cup with his next team.
How so? The reason I ask is that the roster has changed....talent has been injected....moves have been made but still the team flounders. We have a good team on paper and a terrible one on the ice. That makes me believe, and I'm not alone in this, that the fault doesn't lie with Darcy but instead the guy who's job it is to transfer the good team on paper to wins on the ice. It seems like mismanagement when there is such a disparity between high ability and low achievement.
Now, where I am torn is that if you know your coach's style then at what point does fault lie with Darcy for trying to add square pegs to Lindy's round hole system? He got great pieces but not ones that fit into what Ruff was trying to do. That being said, we have had many roster changes and the overall product was one of failure.
The team is not as good on paper as a lot of fans want it to be. I agree with Lebruns take on the team. The D is deep but not good enough and soft and the center position is very weak (especially defensively).
Regher, Ehrhoff, Myers, all three D men are good. Regher was Calgary's best d man, Ehrhoff was Couver's best offensive D man, Myers is supposed to be an elite D man and has played like one before. Sulzer plays well, Sekera meh, Weber and Brennan haven't ever sucked this bad.
Our D on paper is capable of being elite. It was decent last year. Now all the sudden it blows. Players shouldn't blow for no reason when they haven't before.
I have to disagree. Regehr is over the hill and besides Weber we have no hitters and toughness on D. They are quite soft. We have elite offensively talented D-men, but their defensive skills aren't elite. Sekera, Ehrhoff, Sulzer and Leopold aren't elite in their own end, even on paper.
Sulzer should be a 7th D-men at best. I don't think he would be on any top-team D-roster.
Myers has certainly all the tools but he hasn't shown it since his calder year. I think it's wrong to blame the coach for all the stupid mistakes they made.
EDIT: TL,DR: I just think it's too easy to blame the coach and give the players and Darcy an excuse for the poor play and lack of success.