Novo blatantly listed the coaching change as one of the teams problems this year lol.
When he put that along with the 1-0 deficits, injuries, goaltending and regressions, it’s pretty clear what he thinks of it lol.
Novo is a annoying here.
He was the one cheerleading the whole holtz and ruff thing from the "main media" sources. And it looks like, to a large degree Lindy Ruff was actually spot on about holtz,now that we saw holtz for another 30 games without ruff and in some different lines. Same old story. I don't know how many goals he has had recently but it seemed like 2 goals in 30 games. Would need to check the stats.
Dude needs to figure shit out or be gone.
Novo needs to shut up too because we can't blame ruff anymore. This team was toast for a lot more reasons than just ruff.
Haula,mercer and bottom 6 of tierney and nosek were dog shit for a lot of the season. Nosek make a resurgence for a short while but it didn't last. Toff was a semi successful or fail depending on how you see it.
D was an absolute mess all season long. Marino and sieges sucked for large sections of it, same with smith and bahl in spurts. Bahl didn't grow in game skills.. Luke was good offensively for some of season and bad defensive for a lot of it.
Lot of disappointments and blame can be easily apportioned across the players.
Not to mention the goaltending debacles.