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Surreylily:
weYou've been gobbing off about the coaching alo season.ll come on Apace!
money mouth luv.....
Surreylily:
I believe if we're gonna win the Cup agan, we need to get lTrotz back.
richkrt99:
I love Alan May. I used to think he would make a great coach...
But not so sure now.
I think Alan May certainly has the hockey knowledge and personality, but not sure he could cope with the mindset of today's players and effectively manage them. He is a smart but hard-nosed type of guy. What would he do with Kuzy when he takes a couple...three...four games off at half effort? What would he do with Ovi if he does the same? Maybe he would get better response from players due to respect for him, but I'm not so sure. Maybe I'm not giving him enough credit though....he has managed NOT to strangle the life out of his moronic on-air partner; eyeliner boy. Maybe the players would respond to a former player, but Reirdon is a former player too.
Trotz was great at "managing" these things. That's what head coach is more than anything....a manager of all things on his team. A coach has to manage all the players and their personalities and ups and downs, strengths and weaknesses, and manage to find a way to get them all on the same page and stay there long enough to half long term success. Trotz is a smart guy. He "managed" Ovi...went to Russia in the off-season and laid out a plan to make Ovi more responsible, a better leader, a better Captain and got Ovi to buy in and actually captain this team and they won a cup. Sorry to say that ship has sailed with Trotz. No way would I want Trotz back I do not believe he could accomplish the same success with this team. Too much bad blood between team/management and Trotz. I don't see that working again. I think he nearly "lost the locker room earlier in the cup season before the playoffs. Once we got in the playoffs and started rolling, it was a different story, but I recall nearly everyone on these boards trashing Trotz and calling for his job about halfway into that season.
Sorry about the font/size change - I still can't hit the backspace key without it totally messing up my posts (good thing I rarely make a mistake and have to backspace) :raspberry:
Which is one of the things wrong with this team. They are SO talented and they know it. They know they can play 1/3 of a game and still maybe win. Hell, they did that the whole 1st half of the season. They were winning games they may not have deserved due to over scoring with the top talent as well as scoring from bottom guys. Now the top guys have leveled off and the bottom guys haven't scored in .....forever.
NOW they need to actually WORK to win games and it isn't happening. Part of the problem is they "know" they can still turn it on and win. That works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.
I'm hoping they all know and realize this and they are just sort of waiting for the right time to peak. Yes, it is frustrating to watch when you KNOW they have more in them, but maybe they are "saving it" for the playoff run? I know that is a dangerous concept, but also partly realistic. At the relative age and experience of our leadership core, maybe they know they can't go full afterburner for 100+ games in a season so they are coasting while they can. Or maybe they are a bunch of lazy, complacent overpaid athletes who are satisfied with one cup. I don't think that is the case. I think most of these guys are much more competitive than we are - they have to be to even get close to this level. The are professional athlete's which we can't even imagine the rigor and effort it requires to play at this level.
Anyway....got to cut this off...turning into a Rant.
I don't think TR is the guy, but also don't think he is as bad as we all like to pretend.
Alan May would be an interesting experiment, but like Lil said....do you want to "experiment" with him as our head coach?
Also, I think a new coach is a pipe dream at this point - it will take a monumental collapse falling far short of making the playoffs for the Caps to even consider a coaching change. That or a total loss of confidence by the players that is SO obvious the team cannot avoid it.
Go Caps
PUCKNRUSH:
Well, now that I’ve been fired, by Lil, (even before being hired😁), as a future motivational speaker for the Caps, 😂🤣, I have officially been cut loose to speak freely on this coaching thread!👍
(Everyone knows I never speak freely, or LENGTHY, here) BWAHAHA!
All kidding aside....IF it’s true, AND IT IS, that what this team needs, above all, and in a perfect world, would be to find the energy/motivation/drive, that we HABITUALLY WITNESS our boys, LOSING, at different random times, AND in random different degrees, causing the frustrating SLUMPS, in the 2nd half of the season! It is one of the biggest subjects we talk about here on the board, PERIOD!
Manifesting itself, in what we refer to here, on the board, as “They’re not playing like themselves“, “they are lazy“, “they play like they don’t care”, “Where is the energy“, “who the hell is this freaking team?“, and ALL the various ways we find, to basically state THE SAME FRICKIN DISEASE, this HUGE, and constantly FRUSTRATING issue.....(hold on now)
IF....we are looking for a COACH, that is able to come in and rectify, this many years old, low effort issue, that reliably, pops its ugly head up, EVERY SEASON, for at least, half a decade, here in Washington......well honestly, sincerely, and SADLY....
THERE ISNT A COACH, ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH, OR ANY HUMAN BEING, CAPABLE of pulling off such a feat!!!
This shit, (I’m being REAL now, IS, and HAS BEEN, so deeply entrenched in the core of this Capitals organization, that it’s truly UNSOLVABLE!!
On top of that, this phenomenon has been actually REWARDED, and deeply REINFORCED, season after season, by finishing at, or near the top of the division, with two recent Presidents Trophy’s, AND a Stanley Cup, and has MORPHED now, practically into a LEARNED.BEHAVIOR!!
In other words, they’ve slacked off, at some point, just after mid season, ROUTINELY, then unfortunately, have LEARNED THROUGH REPETITION, that they WILL still make the playoffs, have even won a Cup, and STILL continue to sellout tickets, continue to NOT get displined by Mgmnt, OR coaching staff, AND ALL CONTINUES ON OK!!
The real truthful, suck-ass, BAD NEWS, is that it is NOT going to stop, no matter what coach comes in here, any time soon, until we start to become losers in the division, NOT make the playoffs, and revenue starts to tank!!
And you, and I, and all the other fans, will continue to watch, and go through the crazy highs and lows of the emotional roller coaster ride, we’ve voluntarily chosen to hop on, as the price of admission to being a Washington Capitals fan!! Some of us definitely take it better than others!!
NOW, having barked ALL this negativity, I am still a very happy Caps fan, ON BALANCE, that is! After weighing it all out, and everything. Hell, there aren’t many cities,That have NHL franchises that can “recover”, after our multiple fiascoes, and still be winners, by the end of the regular season!!
In an odd twist of reality, we are actually FORTUNATE, as a city, within an NHL franchise!! So somebody, PLEASE, go figure!!
More importantly, I do believe there are a few coaches who could “TRIM“, the problem, so that it may not be as prevalent during the last half of our season. TROTZ was one of them, and there are probably a few others!
And I can definitely say that Coach Rierden is ABSOLUTELY NOT, one of those coaches!! This team marches to the beat of its own drummer, AND, the DRUMMER, is not our CURRENT coach, FOR SURE!!
Coach Rierden, IS however, the INNOCUOUS BABYSITTER, and the lucky INHERITOR, of an extremely talented team, that as I’ve said 1000 times, DIALS IN, when they “feel“ like playing, generally speaking!!
I think Coach Rierden is a good guy, and probably a damn good assistant coach! But he lacks the entire package necessary to be a head coach, mainly I don’t think he puts much emphasis on discipline, in any form except to passively “scratch“ somebody once in a while! No balls!
Sometimes folks, when your looking at a bull from behind, you just have to admit that its ASSHOLE IS AN UGLY THING!!!😂🤣😂
So is the story of hope, for a coach that could “change”, the locker room culture here!!!
(I’m sure there will be plenty of disagreement here)!
Well Lil, you asked for my comment, and I put it forward, the best I can!
Rush
richkrt99:
I admit freely that I have never looked at a Bull's asshole :)
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