Keefe post game…. basically calls out the team for being “mentally weak”…. how have fans been saying this for years with this team and its taken this long for someone to notice?

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  2. Ah, we’re at the “coach blames the players” portion of the firing cycle. He’s absolutely right the team wilts in critical moments. But the inflection point of that starting to happen was when he got here. In our last years with Ruff, we were comeback kings. He’s the change point

  4. He’s speaking as if he is completely helpless here. I’m sure he’s doing his best, but he takes no responsibility.

  5. If he gets fired, at least he confirmed what a good portion of us already knew:

    We have a bunch of soft, lazy players on this team.

  6. Reminder: Lead the league in comeback wins in 22-23. Same core players.

    They don’t believe in Keefe hockey, and they should not believe in Keefe hockey.

    All Keefe has left is to say “players gotta make a play.”

    Bullshit. Keefe has this team DEAD LAST in the Eastern Conference for goals for.

    Before Keefe arrived, this same core scored A LOT. Keefe is failing to see or accept that his garbage play style has killed this team.

  7. Keefe: “I don’t believe it is a system issue.”

    Then blames players.

    This guy is willfully blind.

  8. I really kind of feel for this guy. He must see the set up / writing on the wall already. Another coach scapegoated for a bullshit GM that’s handed him a “wilting” underdeveloped core and team on the vine, and he’s probably handcuffed with some system shit on top of it. Fitz will make it out unscathed again I’m sure though.

  9. Welp I hope if we lose the next game it’s his last as the coach and gives us the Olympic break to find interim coach

  10. “There are good NHL players, and there are players you win with. And sometimes there’s a difference between the two.”

  11. Keefe is bad coach. Im sorry for those who look at this guy and say: “yeah he is competent guy with natural authority and great sense of how to play hockey”. Bullshit, as far as Im concerned.

    1) He cant make defense work. Nemec is in 3rd pairing, while he was clutch player when he had more minutes. He cant say anything bad about Hughes but rest of the defense he blames for everything.

    2) his team cant score. its absolutely evident that this team has mental problem to score goals. its not about the quality, its in the system.

    3) Im working as theatre director. Its very similar position to head coach in sports. There are some key differences but what is the same is YOU HAVE TO: be good psychologist, and be good at directing (coaching) yourself. If you cant put up performance for your team/theatre group, to give them the virus of hockey/theatre, you are useless. You have to be passionate or knowledgable or both but not this passive guesser and coward Keefe is. You are leader, you set the tone, you must make players surprise themselves with their quality. All good coaches can work psychologically. It doesnt matter if he will be strict, or kind, or passionate, he must find the way to motivate them, make them feel that they are playing on the best position for them to shine and if not – make the case why.

    Keefe is full of bullshit. I cant comprehend how he is still the head coach

  13. Can we get rid of this bafoon? Yeah the players have a lot of accountability to take care of but this coach has no hockey iq. I couldn’t imagine a hockey practice with this guy.

  14. Man uses players in ways literally the opposite of their strength, refuses to change when it becomes completely obvious that what he’s trying to do isn’t working, gets mad at the players.

    Absolute clown shit.

  15. If the season is over, it’s over. But if you want to save the cease, torts is the only hail Mary out there

  16. There’s a reasonable chance it’s all of them. Fitz, Keefe, the players. None of them are cup winning level.

  17. The problem is that offensively it looks like the system is.

    Stand around while bratt or Hughes or who ever skates around with the puck, until they find a passing lane.

    Where’s the forecheck, the board play, the presence in front of net, the control in the offensive zone that sets up one timers. None of that exists.

    It looks like Keefe is a coach that builds a defensive game plan and then looks for his players to make a play. That to me is hero ball strategy for offense.

    That shit doesn’t win cups.

  18. I mean, he’s not wrong about our guys being mentally weak. Remember when Nico said he expected a big game out of everyone after they got blanked 9-0? We followed it up with more uninspiring bullshit. This has been going on ever since Lindy tbh. Even in his last year guys just gave up by this point. They always have a period where everyone is completely lost. Them not being ready or not closing out games has been an issue for years. And by this point enough bullshit has happened through the season where you can clearly see they don’t give a shit anymore on the ice. Everyone looks dead and I can’t entirely blame them, its either something like a goalie not making saves or injuries to everyone, or playing the same system every damn game. Guess what? Its your job as a coach to get things in order and we haven’t seen that since the season spiraled. I didn’t even watch tonight but saw the clip of the ENG. Bratt literally just gives up chasing the puck when he could’ve easily stopped it. Keefe has lost the room with his bullshit, uninspiring system and nobody cares what this fraud has to say anymore. If you’re unhappy with how things have turned out, look in the mirror. Hopefully he and Fitz are unemployed by seasons end

  20. Last in the league in 5v5 goals isn’t because they are mentally weak – fuck outta here.

  21. This sounds like somebody who got told he’s meeting with the GM tomorrow and the GM isn’t happy. Might see news he’s been fired later.

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