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Glad to be wrong about this game. Team played the whole 60 minutes. Special teams played well. Raymond continues to exceed my expectations. Good game boys.

Blashill gets so much out of Abby and DeKeyser that they get long term contracts as a top 6 F and top 4 D. Abby gets bought out and can't get a job in the NHL. DD is in his way out the door after this season. 9: Blashill is a horrible coach for putting Abby on the top line and giving DD top pair assignments. Svech has trouble getting playing time and ends up being let go as a free agent. Finds a job in Winnipeg and puts up weak numbers despite getting the minutes and linemates to succeed. 9: Blashill is an awful coach for not getting a top 6 F out of Svech and giving him more minutes. Um. Ok. Seems legit.

So Blashill gets 40 points out of a guy who can no longer get a job in the NHL. And you call that bad coaching? Lol. Aren't you the one complaining that he can't get the best out of his players?

That Abdelkader guy played with Zetterberg and Datsyuk. He musta been real good. Now I know you're trolling.

I dont hold a head coach responsible for the consistency of a young goalie, no. You're making an either/or fallacy. Blash is not washed of any and all responsibility. Neither are the players completely to blame for not turning into good NHL players. There is plenty of blame to go around, but making one person the scapegoat is myopic.

His play was bipolar. Manic one game, depressing the next. I wasn't diagnosing a mental condition.

Yep. Undefeated.

I predict a good ol butt whoopin. And not the kind you pay for.

Yzerman could have kept Svech, but chose not to. Don't know how that is Blashill's fault. Mrazek continues to be erratic after leaving the team. Mantha is lazy. Was before Blash. Still is after Blash. Let's blame only one of his coaches for that. Same with AA. I am not a fan of Blashill. But I also recognize that Blashill is not the boogeyman. Bald Man Bad.

It was clear from the way the team came back in the 3rd and won in OT that Blashill has completely lost this team and they have quit on him.

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Does this look like the coach has lost his team?

Ouellet was never going to be an NHL regular even if you dug up Toe Blake to coach him. The talent just wasnt there. Svechnikov's career was hampered by injuries. I suppose that was Blashill's fault too? Mrazek was bipolar. And Blashill has little to do with coaching goalies other than choosing his starter. They have their own goalie coach. AA was always, and continues to be, a one dimensional player. He refused to change his game and No amount of coaching was going to improve it. Mantha already had a rep for being lazy before he was even drafted. That's why he dropped to Detroit in the draft. And he was already called "very disappointing" by Jim Devellano before he even made the roster. He continued to float even after he was given top line minutes. His career too has been dogged by injuries. Blsshill broke his hand, right? There's the old saying that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You seem to think its Blashill's fault for not drowning the horse. It's not. It's just as much up to the player to be coached, as it is the coaching staff. Blaming Blashill for injuries, players' unwillingness to be coached, or for lacking the talent to stick in the first place is a cop out.

Most of those players were kept in the minors for most of their tenure within the organization. I don't see how Blashill had anything to do with stifling their progress at the NHL level.

Not sure if you're just trolling, but most of those prospects you listed were never "prized prospects" or "cornerstone pieces". Glendening and Bernier were not re-signed by SY because he acquired Ned and needed to make room for 2 or 3 forwards on the roster. Staal and Gagner both wanted to come back and so did Ryan.

It could be a sick family member, JC

I am guessing the reported Calgary offer was bogus.

Unless Kessel can de-age 7 or 8 years and play center, stay away.

All stayin

He just won the Norris Trophy in only his 2nd year in the NHL.

I am giving my wife a 7D night.

Opportunity for Moose to prove the haters wrong tonight. LGRW.

This isn't a criminal matter. It's a civil case. There would be no police involvement.

You can't spell dumbass without D-U-B-A-S

Yes. That's obviously what they wanted. Get rid of the problem as quietly as possible. That's why they're all in hot water now. If they had done nothing wrong they wouldn't be getting purged now.