I don't know who, that's up to JBB. My only point is that maybe, just maybe, the bolded will change under a new coach with a different kind of energy and a new message. I will ask again, what is the point of continuing as we have been? There isn't one IMO so you either get on with the rebuild or you take a big swing that may work or may strike out but at least you've tried something. I don't want to hear another measured, analytical Cooper post-game presser. I want to see some Tortorella-esgue fireworks. The energy and vibe has to change.
Blashill should have never been hired to begin with. if we can cut ties with fan favorites, then we can cut ties with Coops butt buddies.
He runs the defense. Look at the team before he was hired and then look at how bad it got afterwards. he was shit in Detroit and was only hired cause Coop wanted him here.
The only thing that usually happens is a quick turn around, elevated play, then a coaching carousel when that coach fails. Unless you strike gold, get hot, and win with someone like the Blues did with Berube. That's not the common result though. So, whoever you want probably isn't the coach by 2026/7 if we start doing that. Mid season firings with the hope of turning things around with *this* group isn't going to yield the result you want. Cooper knows how to win and better than any coach in the league. That's a f***ing fact and has a decade of history. So, firing him... who comes in? To replace a mini Bowman esque figure is a hell of a task, too. That's not going to be easy either.
It's moot to me. Coop is the head coach.
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Zettler was the assistant for Coop in Syracuse before Coop got promoted. he then went to San Jose and then came back in 2020, look at the 2020-2022 teams compared to the 2023-present team. The huge turn-around when Blashill came over is a complete 180It's moot to me. Coop is the head coach.
I don't think there's enough difference between NHL defenses to really say it's uniquely Blashill's system.
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There is definitely correlation, but it doesn't mean causation.
So we just roll on the way we have been for the past three years, is that what you want to see? And there is nothing rash about it, it is completely rational. You say it never works, but I'm pretty sure STL did that very thing right around this time of year with a lineup no better than the Bolts current line-up and won a Cup. Berube had only been an interim NHL head coach before and for less than a full season at that so it can work, that too is a fact.
