That’ a typical russian mentality. Can’t take blame at all, doesn’t listen to a person without high authority and in this case the authority would be achieved with playing background and blatantly lies like mentioned above.
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That’ a typical russian mentality. Can’t take blame at all, doesn’t listen to a person without high authority and in this case the authority would be achieved with playing background and blatantly lies like mentioned above.
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Parkkila was a goaltender until 18. Maybe not at a great level but it's not like he never saw ice before.
The Athletic article on Parkkila is a good story:
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They are head coaches, it has nothing to do with a goalie coach
All I know is that if Wedgy and Blackwood turn into Swiss cheese like we saw with FatMan and 4giev, Parkkila needs to fired.
Patrick Kane will check about as well as Maurice Richard would, and Maurice Richard is dead.
FTR I may despise McLellan’s brand of hockey but I don’t think he’s a terrible coach. Overrated, yes, but not terrible. Yzerman probably made the only hire he could now that his own job may very well be in jeopardy.
Hartley did. He was a goalie. Just not at the NHL level.
Cooper was an accomplished lacrosse player.
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It's completely irrelevant anyway. A goalie coach is closer to a conditionning coach or a skating coach than a head coach.
Head coach who never played is no big deal. Goalie coach who was never a goalie I could see why it could be a problem for some. Same as a skating coach who never skated.
If they’re good at what they do it probably doesn’t matter in the end how they got there.
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He played goalie, so it’s not a thing he doesn’t understand. Unless we want to start arguing that you not only need to play goalie but reach a certain level and what kind of success you had and in what leagues and then we need to cross reference that against all other NHL goalie coaches ever with the same criteria and this is how HF Boards debates work.
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I'm curious, who did he chase off?
I honestly can't remember if McLellan likes young players or not. If he truly is a Babcock disciple, then he f***ing despises them.
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Exactly. Can't make chicken soup outta chicken shit. Both Georgiev and Annunen are bad goalies. Full stop. I'm willing to give Parkkila the benefit of the doubt as I don't think any other goalie coach could've gotten much more out of Kuemper, Francouz, Grubauer, and Varlamov.
Maybe something goes awry, I don't know, but so far the Woodshed has gotten off to a great start.
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So you have your answer.
Sounds like it worked for Kempe who became a really, really good player.
Oh...well, Turris clashed with the Senators about as bad if not worse, got traded to Nashville, then promptly imploded. IIRC Tippett got as much as he possibly could from a bad roster. He had them playing a trap style even though he later said that's not really his preferred scheme.
IIRC Arizona had a penchant for running off young talent even before Tippett showed up. Lest we forget them gutting their roster by booting a young Ladislav Nagy and Michal Handzus for Brian frickin' Boucher. Their chronically drunk head coach at the time inexplicably drove off Danny Briere too.
I actually like Tippett. Very blunt and matter-of-fact at his pressers. He didn't hesitate to eviscerate Marty Turco if he had a really awful performance, but he also defended him, in that one Stars playoff loss to the Avs, everyone wanted to pile on Turco but he astutely pointed out the only guy to put up more than one goal was Chris Therrien (at least that's what I remember). Not sure why they keep recycling other coaches and not him--certainly not his fault the Oilers saddled him with absolute horseshit goaltending.
Sure, okay. Guess we'll see what he does in Detroit, though it ain't like there's a plethora of youngsters itching to make the jump.
I'm pretty sure everything rides on Cossa now. He HAS to pan out now that every other goalie Yzerman went out and got has crashed and burned.
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Imagine the drama if EP is a healthy scratch tomorrow
Didn't he get hurt last game?
Imagine the drama if EP is a healthy scratch tomorrow
Hell. Yes. Bring me more drama!
What I want to know is, Rangers play the Bolts tomorrow. Are they seriously gonna put Kreider back in?!?!?
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I just want to see Roy with a roster he is happy with to see what he's really like.
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I think the only way we see Roy with a roster he's happy with is if he's the one picking the roster.
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Budaj played for 6 teams after leaving the Avalanche, yet he kept his Avs gear as his “forever” gear post-retirement.
@Balthazar absolutely seething right now.
@Balthazar absolutely seething right now.
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