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My only real issues with AV are his inability to adapt to other teams' play, his favouritism (a la Aaron Rome), his perpetual dog house (Ballard), and his lack of trust with young players (CoHo) other than Kassian and Tanev.

Speaking of Kassian, it took AV four consecutive playoff games (three losses) to finally figure out the kid isn't ready to make an impact. FOUR WHOLE GAMES. His TOI was as follows: 5:37, 6:00, 3:55, and 3:52.

And for the life of me, I cannot understand why AV started games 1 and 2 with MayRay on the 1st line when the combination of Lappy-Henrik-Burrows was experiencing success at the end of the season. Mason fucking Raymond, really?

I'm not going to start on trading away Coho. It's done, and it was not helpful to us whatsoever this year. It was however, rather ironic to see some people on here rave about how this trade was about winning NOW and how it was necessary to win playoff games. Dually ironic is the fact that more and more people are now admitting the trade was either bad or should have been done in the off-season instead. But I digress, Kassian is a Canuck now and I welcome his speedy development so he can contribute much more to the team.

side note: I know Kassian needs time to develop; which is why he wasn't useful in the playoffs. My point was that others were looking ahead to the playoffs thinking Kassian would somehow tear it up for us despite being a total rookie.