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Paul Hamilton wants to make it clear that the Power Play failure is not Seth Appert's fault.
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00:00you know he was angry at that game and the power play yes um you know he he got another
00:05power play
00:06question of course after going over 13 and the only team in the nhl doesn't have one
00:09dallas didn't have one but they got one last night um and he goes well we have changed things
00:17yeah but nothing's changed i mean yeah it's still spinning its wheels out there and it looks the
00:23same and your power plays for the most part have not been good since you went to left buffalo and
00:31went to dallas um i mean they just they haven't and i can give you those numbers in one second
00:39i
00:39just even say scott arneal left yeah all right after the oh oh five oh six season dallas his power
00:48plays
00:48were 4th 12th 20th and 23rd new jersey 13th 13th 28 and 28 buffalo 20 and 24 and this year
00:57last
00:59um so uh overall when he was in new jersey for those four years the new jersey power play was
01:0624th in
01:07the nhl for the four years he was in dallas the power play was 12th in the nhl for the
01:12two years i
01:13have not added in this year's and i should the further but for the first two years in buffalo
01:1726th in the nhl at 19.2 percent other than that though yeah new jersey was 19 percent and dallas
01:25was
01:2518.7 percent this isn't seth appert people the i i have just been trying to make people understand
01:34in the nhl yes lindy ruff takes input from seth appert and every assistant coach they sit down in the
01:40summertime and decide how they're going to do their special teams then lindy ruff tells seth appert
01:45what to coach and then he tells marty on the penalty kill what to coach it is lindy ruff's power
01:53play
01:53it is lindy ruff's penalty kill it is not they're screaming in there to fire seth appert it is not
02:01his power play all right noted i would say no i i've heard you say that a million times and
02:10i couldn't agree with you more it's it's it all you know the buck stops with the big guy on
02:14top
02:15and you know i i've been a coach and i have been told i've been a penalty kill coach and
02:19a power play
02:20coach and in every team i've played i've coached for the head coach tells me what system he wants
02:25me to run and of course you get input of course yeah then the coach will listen to your input
02:30but at the end of the day he decides and he should be held accountable for it that's the way
02:36it goes
02:36you

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