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Originally Posted by Fish on The Sand
Martin's failing at handling young players is pure BS. Subban and Pacioretty developed perfectly fine under his watch, as did Eller. How you can look at our team and say he wasn't getting the best out of his players is beyond me. For the first time in over a decade we were playing sound, consistent, structured hockey and we were getting results despite Gauthier having done a poor job assembling a team and a ridiculous number of injuries.
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Our PP was still horrible and our PK was what saved us on most nights. We had only one scoring line and were decimated by injuries for most of the season like you said. Muller leaving and Pearn and Martin being fired and eventually Gauthier was a blessing in disguise for this franchise. We were just like you described earlier......Just outside of eight place and fighting for a playoff spot......A team that has been this way for much too long. As bad as this whole disaster of a season was, we are two or three players away from turning things around. I cant look at our situation and feel anything like Leaf nation is feeling, yikes what a mess.