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If the Avs have an early exit and Bednar gets the can would Tortorella be a viable option as his replacement? Maybe some tough love would be what the team would need after a player-friendly coach like Bednar. Not sure about the play style matching though.
 
Torts is not the coach that you hire for a rebuild. He was hired by a different GM with a different plan.

Curious to see how this decision will affect Michkov's production from now on.
 
Balthazar said:
Also without Rants producing. If he can start producing again it's going to be a very dangerous team.

For a playoff series I'm more afraid of Deboer than Heiskanen.
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DeBoer has never won anything. He has never faced adversity against us in the playoffs like we have against him. Let's see how he does against a healthy Avs team and without his #1 dman.
 
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AllAboutAvs said:
DeBoer has never won anything. He has never faced adversity against us in the playoffs like we have against him. Let's see how he does against a healthy Avs team and without his #1 dman.
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Brother guy, Deboer's solution to that will likely be to look over at Jamie Benn and whisper in his heart "take out Cale".
 
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DeBoer has never won anything.
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Other than 3 series against Bednar where he successfully completly shut down our transition game by leaving no space to our defensemen to skate or make a pass.

That's how you beat Bednar's Avs: leave no space to the defense, send 2 guys on them as soon as they touch the puck. This renders the Avs completely ineffective and DeBoer has mastered this strategy.

It doesn't work against all the teams so it's not a ticket to the Stanley cup for DeBoer but it sure worked against us so far.
 
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Balthazar said:
Other than 3 series against Bednar where he successfully completly shut down our transition game by leaving no space to our defensemen to skate or make a pass.

That's how you beat Bednar's Avs: leave no space to the defense, send 2 guys on them as soon as they touch the puck. This renders the Avs completely ineffective and DeBoer has mastered this strategy.

It doesn't work against all the teams so it's not a ticket to the Stanley cup for DeBoer but it sure worked against us so far.
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Again, if Bednar and his team still havent a plan and counter to this, they need to be fired right after the Handshake-Line....on the ice.......
 
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Balthazar said:
Other than 3 series against Bednar where he successfully completly shut down our transition game by leaving no space to our defensemen to skate or make a pass.

That's how you beat Bednar's Avs: leave no space to the defense, send 2 guys on them as soon as they touch the puck. This renders the Avs completely ineffective and DeBoer has mastered this strategy.

It doesn't work against all the teams so it's not a ticket to the Stanley cup for DeBoer but it sure worked against us so far.
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I'll take the Bednar route of sucking against one coach but winning a cup as opposed to Deboer.
 
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Balthazar said:
He's paid for next season, he should retire in peace.
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Nah. There was a time when I was perfectly fine with him going away but I've changed my mind. Dude is a fiery personality in a sport that is nearly bereft of it. I hope he gets another job somewhere, just not Colorado.

Balthazar said:
Torts is not the coach that you hire for a rebuild. He was hired by a different GM with a different plan.

Curious to see how this decision will affect Michkov's production from now on.
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I dunno, in some ways I think he was a perfectly fine hire, problem is the Flyers just refuse to actually embrace a full rebuild. They constantly think they can do it without actually tanking. We already know Briere is going "big game hunting" this offseason when there's no real discernible core in Philly.

Torts was hard on the youngsters, but where I think it all went wrong was when he christened Sean Couturier captain and then not long after sent him to the press box.
 
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Grigowski said:
Again, if Bednar and his team still havent a plan and counter to this, they need to be fired right after the Handshake-Line....on the ice.......
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He didn't have a plan for the last playoff game last year. Guys were skating in quicksand and didn't know what to do because they couldn't generate offense from the backend.
 
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That Deboer may have Bednars number(even if I think that people are overreacting on that point) but Bednar has actually won a cup and shown that ability where Deboer hasn't.
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Yeah, but IDGAF if Bednar has won 20 cups and DeBoer can only beat one single coach, if they face each other in round 1 that's an issue.

Why should we care about DeBoer's overall record as a head coach? We should only worry about him facing us.
 
Balthazar said:
Other than 3 series against Bednar where he successfully completly shut down our transition game by leaving no space to our defensemen to skate or make a pass.

That's how you beat Bednar's Avs: leave no space to the defense, send 2 guys on them as soon as they touch the puck. This renders the Avs completely ineffective and DeBoer has mastered this strategy.

It doesn't work against all the teams so it's not a ticket to the Stanley cup for DeBoer but it sure worked against us so far.
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It also helps when Bednar has a vastly inferior goaltender.
 
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