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- Feb 10, 2014
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Knoblauch had insane success in junior and was one of the hottest young hockey coaching candidates in the professional hockey world.This seems like a bit of waffling. What makes you think Knoblauch has any value or is a good coach? Why would you keep an assistant and foist him upon a new coach. It really makes zero sense.
This has been the Flyers m.o. for years - saddling new coaches with used assistants or forcing former Flyers players onto their staffs. This is a really horrible practice. A new coach needs a staff he is comfortable with, who understands his system and is properly aligned with his vision. Likewise, the GM needs to respect it and feed the coach the players that will thrive in his system. This clearly did not happen with Lavi and Homer. The organization's track record is really poor in both these areas and that is what is truly terrifying.
Unless you think they were completely wrong on him and that his junior success was an utter fluke and simply based on talent, you keep him in your organization. Assistants usually are charged with simply carrying out what the head coach asks -- it's not their own individual ideas and strategies being coached. Also, new coaches keep at least one existing assistant relatively often. From what I've read about Knoblauch, he won't have an issue adjusting to the ideas of a new head coach. I'm quite sure he had to adjust to Hakstol's systems.
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