John Matisz
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And obviously it takes some time to institute that, to see some real success.
Like you start that, you have some growing pains right away.
And it takes a while to get that snowball rolling if they get buy-in from certain players.
But that's clearly happened here.
And the roster that Danny Breer has assembled for them, it's lacking in firepower.
I mean, they don't even have a 30-goal scorer.
They don't have a guy over 70 points.
Like, they are truly a defensive team.
So there's been that coupled with last year they had atrocious goaltending.
And this year it's been at least solid.
So...
I don't know.
I look at what Rick Talk has done there, and I don't think it comes to the level of Dan Muse in Pittsburgh or even John Cooper in Tampa Bay.
I think that he would be in some sort of second tier or third tier in terms of the Jack Adams.
I don't vote on it.
I don't put a ton of thought into it day to day.
But if I think about a coach's impact, yes, has he been โ
a huge contributor to what Philly's been doing, yes.
But I wouldn't say the end result is overly exciting, overly impressive.
And, you know, part of that is roster construction.