Speculation: 2024-25 Coaching/Management/Ownership
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robbieboy3686
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“if your father can’t pay your rent ask joe demagio for help, and see what he says. nobody cares. “
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sowcufucakky
You do you. I don’t want them as coaches, but feel no need to be vindictive about people losing their livelihoods or suffering any other misfortune when they’ve done me no personal harm. As I said, literally costs me nothing to be nice to someone in need. Or, at a minimum, not be a jerk to them.
robbieboy3686
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Dude I’m trolling man! Jesus. I agree with you.
Hockey Duckie
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Ummm... I followed the link and there's nothing in the article about Stothers. There is an article on the left side bar about both Sudsie and Stothers winning grants to give to their respective charities.
Ducks Coaches and Cancer Survivors Maharaj, Stothers Award $25,000 Grant in Honor of 25 Years of Hockey Fights Cancer | Anaheim Ducks
They team up with the NHL and NHLPA to benefit local nonprofit organizations in their fight against cancer
www.nhl.com
The Midnight Burrito
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I think the tweeter there was reacting to questions from people who read the article and wondered about Stothers, since he's not mentioned in the press release.Ummm... I followed the link and there's nothing in the article about Stothers. There is an article on the left side bar about both Sudsie and Stothers winning grants to give to their respective charities.
Ducks Coaches and Cancer Survivors Maharaj, Stothers Award $25,000 Grant in Honor of 25 Years of Hockey Fights Cancer | Anaheim Ducks
They team up with the NHL and NHLPA to benefit local nonprofit organizations in their fight against cancer
Hockey Duckie
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I don't have social media, so thanks for the heads up.
If Stothers were not to return, then he would have been listed. He isn't an on-ice coach anymore, but promoted to an advisory role to coaches due to his cancer situation not permitting him to be a full-time, on-ice coach. That was why we hired Thompson to take over the PK unit. I like Stothers a lot, but I don't understand why all the commotion since he's not directly involved with on-ice stuff anymore.
Dr Johnny Fever
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I think people just care about him and wanted to make sure he still had a job. That was my only thought.
The Midnight Burrito
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If I had to guess, I'd say the commotion is due to people wondering how Stothers' situation had been handled, given his illness. As in, the commotion is emotional rather than practical, so it doesn't matter that he's not involved with on-ice stuff anymore (assuming that's true). Surely you can understand that.
Hockey Duckie
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He's not directly involved, but involved in an advisory role. Again, I love Stothers (my charts really love Stothers), but his main battle is with cancer. And Verbeek has taken care of Stothers by promoting him to a special advisory role to lessen the workload and stress. I figure his contract term was similar to Newell Brown. Brown was not renewed and no news about Stothers. I just assumed Stothers remained with the org since no news is good news.
If MM is tweeting about it, then there should be some substance other than "take my word for it." According to the article I shared above, Stothers is a cancer survivor. Both he and Suds. So it isn't like I don't care b/c that article is on the internet for all to see. I thought MM was sharing that Stothers would become an assistant coach to Thompson or something more than the advisory role.
MMC
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Hoven is definitely in the know when it comes to the SoCal teams. Him saying "take my word for it" is good enough for me.
Every once in awhile, I think of Brian Burke’s introduction press conference and I feel such joy. Then sadness, knowing we will never be that team again.
CrazyDuck4u
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Yes that team had everything... But it's ok. We will get there again
All Mighty
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Oh, so it wasn't personal reasons, it was personnel reasons.
CrazyDuck4u
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Well the Gulls have been garbage since he joined in 2022, yet he still wanted a promotion before showing any results... And Ottawa wanted him... not a top organization... so maybe we should thank them..... now we can change things up down there... Verbeek probably didn't want the 'culture' change to be such a big loser like the Duck club has been...
Maybe he had family or other reasons for wanting to be on the other side of the continent? Wouldn't be the first time.
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I'm pretty sure he didn't even spend much time here. He did the job mostly from back home on the east coast.
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great hire for the kings!
One of the best PP guys out there. A real shame we couldn't bring him back. They oughta make em head coach
One of the best PP guys out there. A real shame we couldn't bring him back. They oughta make em head coach
I wouldn't be surprised if he is thought of as a pretty competent forwards assistant around the league based on the various gigs he's had. I'm not saying he's great but we have no idea if our players were just totally incapable of executing what he wanted. not entirely implausible if you ask me.
Smirnov2Chistov
Fire Greg Cronin!
Maybe because our forwards and supporting staff aren't talented enough to execute what he wanted to do.
Eh Canucks fans hated him too and they had Petey, Boeser, Hughes, etc.
Even if he had some power play wizardry that our players couldn't execute (doubtful), a good coach will make adjustments if something isn't working and the adjustments he made were too little, way too late.
I don't think he's amazing coach, but he may have been trying new things and nobody could execute those things either. The point is, his forwards and PPs have had success in the past, and I don't think he's this awful coach.
