Yes the age old argument that every team has when a goalie struggles, is it the goalie or the team in front of him.How on earth is Woodcroft a close second?
Are you suggesting he was supposed to hypnotize Skinner to not have .780 goaltending, or what?
Or are you only looking at the results without considering what parts of the game a coach can actually influence?
Dude was an interim for like 20 games, likely the best the Devils looked last season, too.Travis Green
It was absolutely not the best NJD looked.Dude was an interim for like 20 games, likely the best the Devils looked last season, too.
Because he coached a team that wasn't good to a record that wasn't good. Sure, he didn't knock anyone's socks off, but it wasn't like he was working with a roster capable of making it to game 7 of the final.How has nobody's mentioned Pascal Vincent yet?
I'd still give it to Woodcroft. Babcock may have had a spectacular implosion, but Woodcroft had a Stanley Cup Finalist roster in the basement of the league over a sustained period. That is incredibly difficult to do.
People really don't understand just how awful he was. Most of the guys mentioned at least had the excuse that their goaltending was shit, Granato did not have that excuse. From October to late December our goaltending was decent to good. From then until the end of the season UPL played at close to Vezina level. Not to mention they may have been the single least prepared/in shape team I have ever seen in my life, I have no idea what they were doing during preseason.Don Granato
I thought Keefe had a decent year, but then he had his team push for the Milestone Cup at the end of the season.
What? Why do you expect him to do better?Leafs are so damn set on running everything back. Same team, same coach, same system - just change out bottom 6 players and assistant coaches.
Keefe has to be in the running for this, how do you run the same powerplay formation for this long? Boston basically was like, “lol, they’re drop passing still?”, waited at half for it to happen and denied what felt like 80% of zone entries.
Never mind the odd deployment of developing players like Robertson, Woll and Lilj. Keefe was trash this and last season.
I expect him to do much better for the NJD.
Laforge got a raw dealIn all due respect to Bill Laforge(who has actually won a championship), think this award needs to be renamed the Peter Horachek award. Best coach you can hire if you want to tank for the #1 pick in the draft.
It's insane no one has said David Quinn yet, people REALLY don't pay attention to the Sharks, lol
Their roster was shockingly bad, but they needed help getting to the historic levels of futility we saw this year, Quinn was a generational talent as a tank commander
Travis Green took over a decent team with terrible goaltending. He managed to get 2 new goaltenders during the trade deadline. Then proceeded to coach a god awful team with decent goaltending.
The only positive he has for him in this thread is that he only ruined 20 or so games last season while his competitors have a much larger showcase.
Actually the Devils looked exactly the same with Greene.Dude was an interim for like 20 games, likely the best the Devils looked last season, too.