Starting Rask tonight was one of the worst professional decisions you could possibly make. I’m not just talking hockey, or even professional sports. It was everything bad about professional decision-making. It was timid, likely crowd-sourced, ignored context, and appears to have been driven by an inability to differentiate between an acceptable “devil you know” risk and drawing dead.
Starting him last game may have been almost as bad.
I like Cassidy as a coach. A lot. I think that he probably deserves a metric fuckton of credit for helping manage Marchand into the best player and beating heart of this team. But there needs to be a serious examination of just what the fuck was going on here.
Starting him last game may have been almost as bad.
I like Cassidy as a coach. A lot. I think that he probably deserves a metric fuckton of credit for helping manage Marchand into the best player and beating heart of this team. But there needs to be a serious examination of just what the fuck was going on here.