The honeymoon between the fans and Martin St-Louis is over.
The CH head coach finds himself at the heart of several criticisms at the moment because his club is struggling on the ice.
And what happens is that there are starting to be a lot of doubts about him since he doesn’t have much experience behind the bench of a National League club.
But to hear Elliotte Friedman, the fact that there are doubts at the moment when we talk about the coach, that is perhaps not a bad thing.
The informant explains in the recent episode of his podcast that St-Louis is more motivated when people doubt him and that this could help him find solutions to remedy the situation.
When people question him, he never forgets it. I think he will be even more determined to find solutions to help his club. It will motivate him. – Elliotte Friedman
Friedman says that at the time, when St. Louis made the 2014 Olympics after leaving the club due to injury (he wasn’t chosen among the original players), he asked for a trade to Steve Yzerman returning to Tampa Bay.
Yzerman, who was his GM with the Lightning, also held the role of GM with Team Canada.
St. Louis hadn’t liked the fact that his own GM hadn’t selected him to participate in the tournament and he still had it on his mind when the Olympics ended, even though Canada had won the medal. ‘gold.
Whether he is motivated to change things or not, Martin St-Louis must look at other coaches (who have more experience) and be inspired by what they are doing.
For example?
Patrick Roy benched Samuel Bolduc because he didn’t like his performance… Jim Montgomery, for his part, did not hesitate to bench his star player, David Pastrnak, because he was not satisfied with what he was doing. he brought to the ice rink…
Calvary, even Roman Rotenberg reserves this treatment for Ivan Demidov, even though the latter does not deserve it…
What we need to understand here is that the CH head coach needs to start sending messages to his guys who are not performing. That said, how come Christian Dvorak got playing time at 5v3 last week against the Capitals, when he hasn’t done anything (and I’m being polite) on the ice since the start of the season ?
How come there are no players who bail (apart from Arber Xhekaj, genre) despite the fact that we don’t see many of some of them on the ice?
It doesn’t make any sense…
There are several reasons to have doubts about the work of Martin St-Louis at the moment because it seems that he is having difficulty adapting to what happens on the ice during games .
If it can motivate him to find solutions, so much the better… But there is work to do because at the moment, there is not much that is working for his team.
In burst
– Especially at this time of year.
– He is so underestimated.
– Great competition.
– Oh yes?
