@GordsTake @GatineauGreg The only way you can say it was bad is by looking at raw success rate, which is silly analysis because the success rate is predicated on good goaltending, which the Sens haven't had all year.
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@ITheSpace @GatineauGreg Perhaps you should re-read the tweet? It says "I still don't think he's the right coach, but I don't think he's the wrong one anymore, either."
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It’s truly amazing what Green did with this group. Every player has bought in and plays a 200’ game. Playoff hockey mentality all season.
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@GordsTake @GatineauGreg You also go on to justify it based on the fact that he supposedly mismanaged the PK, which just isn't true. The PK is and was fine.
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@edmislyfe37 @JFreshHockey @B_Marsh92 Unironically yeah that was stupid, he wasn't as valuable as McDavid
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@JFreshHockey @B_Marsh92 Your argument is trash dog. It’s objective. Should Taylor’s hall give his hart back 😭
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Since there's more Hart Trophy discourse, bumping this article.
The Hart Trophy is for the best player in the league that season.
All the hand-wringing over "most valuable to his team" is 1. dumb and 2. makes the award debate dumb
🔗: jfresh.substack.com/p/the-hart-tro…
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@ITheSpace @GatineauGreg (2/2) - I don't think the goaltending is his fault, and I believe he's a massive improvement over DJ Smith. The defensive turnaround seems legit, and he deserves credit for that. So he's not the wrong coach.
But I think his roster management is leaving meat on the bone.
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@GordsTake @GatineauGreg How would you like him to change his roster decisions? He is playing Jensen as a 6th D. Do you think the difference between Jensen and the 7th D is worth replacing the coach over?
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@GordsTake @GatineauGreg This was a game against a Bedard-less Chicago team where Leevi was awful. Yes I was upset at a bad shift from Jensen, it's not his fault they needed 6 goals to win that game lmao. You can also find tweets of me saying Brady was terrible if you looked.
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@GordsTake @GatineauGreg Jensen has a 51.1% xG share at 5v5. Every defenseman on Ottawa last year had worse numbers than that except for Sanderson and Zub.
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@JFreshHockey Well I was using points as an example. Assume everything else is mostly equal as as well and they provide virtually the same raw value, would you not factor teammates into the equation of who had the better year?
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@ITheSpace in that case your problem is that you're basing player performance on points alone.
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@GordsTake @GatineauGreg Well first of all it's not veteran players plural, it's literally one guy. Every coach in the league has the same issue, they will always love their veterans. We have the best defensive metrics in the league, I'm not going to pretend Jensen is sinking the team.
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@ITheSpace @GatineauGreg The question is if Green is accountable for giving veteran players minutes and assignments they can no longer handle, not how the team is doing defensively.
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@ITheSpace @GatineauGreg OK, so if Green is responsible for the players, then he's also responsible for giving veteran players minutes and assignments they can no longer handle, right? Green is accountable for playing Hamonic, and playing Jensen over Spence even though Spence has had better numbers?
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@GordsTake @GatineauGreg and by playing "well" I mean "below average but good enough to win most nights"
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@GordsTake @GatineauGreg They simply stand in the net and react to what the players are doing and make the saves they need to make. They couldn't do that for most of the season, only the last 20 game or so have they played well. The players have played well all year.
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@CakeMcJabe It's definitely a case of piling on. Minten played 1 game is a 1C like in January and got 2 assists and they acted like this kid was the next Seguin
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Of the four worst clear cut trades in Leafs history, two were with Boston, while a third indirectly happened because of Boston.
Fun!
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New, for @TheAthletic: Fraser Minten and a 1st for Brandon Carlo. The trade that haunts the Maple Leafs 🔗⬇️ nytimes.com/athletic/71418… nytimes.com/athletic/71418…
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@GordsTake @GatineauGreg And again, the PK was the second best in the league under Baumgartner in terms of xGA/60. Yeo took over the day before Ullmark came back. Last time Baumgartner ran the PK their goalies were Leevi and Reimer lol of course their PK% was horrendous.
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@ITheSpace @GatineauGreg So if Green directly decides that, why are there forward and defence coaches?
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@GordsTake @GatineauGreg nhl.com/senators/team/…
There aren't lol. The only position that has its own coach is goaltending. Everyone else is an assistant and is there to
a) run set faceoff plays
b) be a liaison between the video review coaches and the head coach
c) run the PK and PP
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