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They are apprehensive and get feasted on for it. Coaching is confusing players, exactly what they didn’t do last season. But now that defense needs to improve they don’t know how. plus all the assistant coaching is terrible and isn’t helping. run them all out

St. Louis was last place changed HC from an assistant then won a cup

McD does a great job prepping the team but he can’t manage the second half of games. There isn’t a sub-HC role to defer that task to though. It’s his ceiling.

Cliffton is 200x worse

Levi is fine. Relying on a goalie when the team has no defense is dumb. He makes the saves he needs to and makes plenty of big saves lesser goalies don’t. He gets tested more than goalies ever should and people forget that too easily

Cozens blew that OT with dumb decisions I’m not sure why anyone is blaming Levi

Levi won the game. He’s a good goalie. His bad game must’ve been an injury fluke Cliffton is an absolute tire fire. He just eats up space and does nothing useful. Both goals were his man who drifted away from him and he was too dumb to move over. Don’t tell me he is playing position on the PK, each time they made no front presence, Cliffton should’ve cheated over. On the second goal he repeatedly looked and saw the guy but didn’t do anything to move over. This guy almost lost the game by himself out there. He’s not even serviceable as a 7D. If he didn’t hit people once in a while I’d say he’s worse than Bryson. Power and Joki are looking much better than start of season, to the teams benefit. Really wish Stillman was brought back up. While in Buffalo he never looked bad. Savoie invisible, I don’t think he has the talent to overcome not being strong enough yet, but he has a few more games of rope before judgements should be made. Really glad we have Bensen because he’s different. Mittelstadt is finally good. Thompson is carrying this team. Peterka deserves those first line minutes and dare I say a good compliment for Skinner (keep them together either with Thompson or Mittelstadt). Cozens is still lost, trending towards a Girgensons and not the Drury we know he can be, not sure what to do (probably mental).

He’s been playing bad

Wasn’t competing with all the injuries anyway. At least a better CB will make games more watchable. Defending 3rd and long is miserable on this team.

Suspend him for the year. Save us from his awful play please. Bring back Stillman

Why is UPL playing

Coaching is awful and is the most fixable. Offense has no weapons past Diggs and Kincaid. Bunch of overpaid drop artists. Defensive is too injured. No team can absorb the number of injuries they’ve sustained. Team has mental issues if they are always playing up or down to their competition. Didn’t have that last couple years, but now it’s ever present on both sides of the ball.

They canned their coach. We need to do the same

Coaching keeps these kids unprepared

Clifton is so ***** bad

As much as I rail on the coach he made literally the exact line change I suggested last week. Now I might have to eat crow if it doesn’t look good. Why did you do this to me Granato? See, I still can blame Granato no matter the outcome I used to bag on Krebs a lot but I think towards the end of last year it finally clicked for him.

Jost should be in the lineup and Krebs promoted to Oloffson’s spot Whether rookies break in is a question of whether they are ready. And by ready I don’t mean Oloffson is gifted a spot because of familiarity.

The breakdowns all happened with a singular person back there. Point fingers. Clifton is a bust

Right. Since him we haven’t had one. Bunch of sweet talking rejects

When have we had a good coach?

Granato is to blame if the team is unprepared. They have the talent. Granato made the right call on that offsides challenge. However his response of just being quiet and shutting up was telling of how he treats any adversity. Without a fight. It’s no surprise our team has no fight either. I miss Lindy

Mittelstadt was pegged to him at the start of last year and looked just as lost as Cozens does now. Once Mittelstadt broke free he surprised everyone.

Benson is worth watching Oloffson is a problem Thompson showed some signs of life but that line needs to get it together Cozens is struggling. I blame VO Johnson and Clifton are reassuring instead of the goon squad we’ve dealt with last few years Levi is fine. 2/3 goals were BS deflections

They play the trap

Another trap team. Ruh roh