Casual Canuck

CBC Sports Willy's players skated hard, but his team's structure was poor. And he had trouble teaching the young players how to play hockey at the NHL level. It takes more than just effort. There's a certain level of knowledge needed in regards to the X's and O's that Willy D lacked. The next Canucks coach has a great deal of work ahead of them. They'll need to break down and rebuild the team's structure, entirely. They'll need to instill a better team culture, too. And this isn't a one year job, either. The next coach should be given at least two seasons to see the results. Can they improve on Desjardins record? Can they improve upon their own record?

Crossposted from HFBoards Time to dust this blog off of dust, I suppose. Just in time for the season's end. I post at HFBoards under the alias, The Extrapolater. Rant alert. I can't even with this coach. Not even just a little. I just can't even. Been trying to figure him out, but it's taken a long time. He doesn't understand his players. That's it. He doesn't know what he has in his players. Doesn't know their strengths and weaknesses. Or rather, he has a shallow understanding of them, and instead of reinforcing players' strengths, tries to compensate for their weaknesses, instead. That works for your scrubs, but for your talented players, you want them doing what they do best. And his understanding of player chemistry is weak, also. Sedins with Eriksson equals scoring chances. Sedins and Chaput equal nothing. But he insists on the latter. A great deal of coaching in any sport is simply putting the right players into the rights p...