Cooper’s Playoff Record Gets The Full Postmortem

Jon Cooper’s postseason ledger is getting picked apart, and that usually means the bar is somewhere near the ceiling. Four straight years of exits will do that to a coach, even one with plenty of credibility in the room. The analysis digs into what has gone wrong and why the results keep landing short of the standard. In the NHL, you do not get judged on how good the process looked in May if the trophy case is still collecting dust in June.