This team is, for all intents and purposes, pretty much the same as the team that had won the Stanley fucking Cup last year. Except now we are being run into the ground by a coaching staff that has no fucking clue what they're doing. We've taken a strong team on paper and destroyed them. If you take away our winning streaks in November/December (which were largely thanks to Ovi's dominance and Wilson too, which we can't reasonably expect them to replicate to that extent), then our record is even worse.
This is a coach who is clearly retarded and has no clue how to get a team going. He is an elementary school kid in a world of PhD level coaches. Other coaches are playing chess, and Reirden isn't even playing checkers! He's playing Go Fish with half a deck of cards. He's outclassed. I don't even blame our players, because quite frankly a good coach could take a team and have them exceed what their "expected" capabilities are (see: VGK, see: NYI). A good coach would call out players like Kuzy for their retardedness and force them to fix the issue or get benched.
Reirden is driving our team into the ground. Not only that, but he's wasting another magical season by the best goal scorer in NHL history. Fuck Gretzky, fuck Lemieux, fuck Howe, fuck Hull, fuck Bossy. Ovechkin is king over all of them. And his epic age-33 season is being wasted by a garbage coach who will honestly probably lead the Capitals right out of the playoffs at this rate.
I think we would be GENEROUS to give the Caps 10 games coming out of the all-star break to get back on track with a 60-70% win percentage before pulling the trigger on firing Reirden, which I think is a very reasonable ask. If we haven't achieved that by then, we're pretty much on the outside looking in from a playoffs perspective, and with 20 games to go I'd rather roll the dice on another coach and get them to build some chemistry with the team using the remaining 20 games of the season so we can be in a good spot next year. I'd rather not give Reirden the final 20 games to stumble his way through to an early Capitals tee team and a long summer for us fans.
I wish Reirden would read this, and I'm sure that even if he did, he'd probably say something like "who is this dumb ass ZeroFox guy? He's clearly some dumb fan trying to be armchair coach who doesn't know hockey like I do and doesn't care about the team like I do." Well fuck face, I'm the one asking for your dumb ass to get fired because you're fucking up the team I love, meanwhile you are doing jack shit to fix a near historical losing streak for a defending Stanley Cup champion team, so who's more passionate about the team?
