Confirmed with Link: Adam Foote Named Head Coach of the Vancouver Canucks

[Svencouver]

If Malhotra wanted the position and then leaves now that he's not getting it, I'll be unhappy. If Malhotra sticks around or was never going to take the Canucks HC job anyway, then I'm not that bothered. I think I prefer Malhotra over Foote, but I'm not sure if I prefer Gallant/Laviolette over Foote. Like Vector, I'm just not confident enough in my evaluation of coaches and the teams internal needs.

The only needs that are paramount for me are:
-Improved offensive systems and making the game easier/simpler for players that lets them maintain consistency during the season and an "overhead" of effort left to dial up when they need to
-Getting Pettersson back to 1C level and making the system suit him
-Keeping Hughes happy

#3 is solved by this hire, and #2 could be, given that it seems that Tocchet was the one who didn't get along with EP40 in particular and had a big personality conflict. #1 is the real biter though and I would've trusted Malhotra more with it. A lot is riding on Assistant hires and whether or not management/Foote identifies a way to actually solve the problem.

 

[Svencouver]

Also, I do think the team is correct in their judgment that consistency and carry-over is important for next season, even if there were a lot of things left to be desired from both how they performed and how they played last year. Having a carousel of coaches with 1-2 year shelf-lifes is a huge organizational drain when you consider how often new coaches dont get a solid training camp, how the players are scrambling to learn a new system on the fly mid-season, how coaches dont have the whole summer to draw up their plans for the year and how they're going to run practices and deploy their Xes and Os.

While the offense is a serious concern going into next year, I think it's indisputable that the Tocchet/Foote/Gonchar/Etc. coaching core built the best foundation we've had in the Pettersson/Hughes era. It's imperative to build off of that with culture and consistency if possible. We want this team to be a Boston, Pittsburgh, Tampa, or Carolina type apparatus. There needs to be some year-over-year stability and constancy for that to happen.

 

[Tinhorn1]

Why?

It's nothing to do with the team or the job or the person. As someone else noted, it's like asking someone how their impending divorce will affect their job.

Moreover, it's one of those questions that you know the answer to before it's even asked (I can't comment, support my family, won't affect job here), so what's the point of asking it?

It's a question that is basically just the media version of virtue signaling.

Divorces aren't national news. Criticizing individual reporters for asking questions related to Page 1 news stories seems a little bizarre to me - and also naive. It's a big story and Foote is related to it, so you ask the question. To equate such routine news work with "virtue signaling" is telling. And reporters ask questions that get pro forma responses all the time. So what. This is the world of PR and reporting, and it's not unusual or likely to change.

 

[Nick Lang]

A sexual assault case is clearly not the same sort of thing as losing your dad.

Again : everyone knows what's up here. Everyone knows what the answers will be. Everyone knows that this is a terrible situation for Foote as a person and as a parent. Just show some basic human decency and don't ask these kinds of dumbass questions on what is a big/proud day for him. There are more than enough tough question you could ask that are purely hockey-related if you have the journalistic skills to formulate them instead of just going for the low-hanging fruit.

Exactly, he's been an assistant coach for 2+ years here. There was plenty of time to ask these questions in the past wasn't there, and they choose his coaching appointment press conference to do so? Didn't seem to affect him last year. Why start slinging this off topic garbage at him now unless you're just an asshole with no morals? Have some basic human respect for crying out loud.

 

[racerjoe]

Exactly, he's been an assistant coach for 2+ years here. There was plenty of time to ask these questions in the past wasn't there, and they choose his coaching appointment press conference to do so? Didn't seem to affect him last year. Why start slinging this off topic garbage at him now unless you're just an asshole with no morals? Have some basic human respect for crying out loud.

How many press conferences has foot been up there answering questions like this one? Did I miss a bunch?

 

[Nick Lang]

How many press conferences has foot been up there answering questions like this one? Did I miss a bunch?

I don't know. I'm not into harassing or embarrassing people about their private family problems myself so I don't keep track of opportunities to launch personal attacks. Surely they could have approached him at some point if they wanted to, or after one of the games. It's not the first time the press has spoken to him in two years is it? That's the point, they waited and then sandbagged him for no practical reason during a press conference in no way shape or form related to this issue.

Whatever. I guess it's just acceptable and common practice for some people. I find it deplorable myself. Welcome to Vancouver Adam.

 

[racerjoe]

I don't know. I'm not into harassing or embarrassing people about their private family problems myself so I don't keep track of opportunities to launch personal attacks. Surely they could have approached him at some point if they wanted to, or after one of the games. It's not the first time the press has spoken to him in two years is it? That's the point, they waited and then sandbagged him for no practical reason during a press conference in no way shape or form related to this issue.

Whatever. I guess it's just acceptable and common practice for some people. I find it deplorable myself. Welcome to Vancouver Adam.

Even Foote didn't think that way... he was expecting it and expecting much worse.

How often do you hear any Assistant coach talk... it just doesn't happen much.

 

[VanJack]

I don't understand why some posters are pushing back on the Allvin-Foote press conference. I thought he did well--even the questions about his son Cal and the London court case.

I think when it comes to the players, his 'likeability factor' will be high. And if he is surrounded with a couple more 'system-based' coaches for the d-corp and forwards--I think he'll be just fine behind the bench.

I really think some members of the local media were a little seduced by the 'Tocchet' factor--and the magical 2023-24 season. And really thought he 'wanted to return' to the Canucks. We now know differently.

Looking around the league, there are a lot of good coaches who found themselves in bad situations--where the personnel they were handed made it impossible to win. I mean, I consider a guy like John Tortorella to be a good coach--despite his mercurial personality. But he's been fired numerous times and carried the can for a sub-standard lineup crafted by the GM.

So Foote comes into the Vancouver gig in a perfect spot. Expectations aren't that high. But I still think this roster is capable of a lot more than they showed last season.

 

[supercanuck]

Am I the only one who has zero recollection of Foote being the captain of the Blue Jackets for 3 seasons?!?

 

[VanJack]

Am I the only one who has zero recollection of Foote being the captain of the Blue Jackets for 3 seasons?!?

I was struck by the comment from Foote about working with Demko, and his fragile injury history.

He pointed out that over the course of two seasons, he had five separate injuries of variable severity. So if there's anyone who knows about injury rehabs--and all the setbacks that often happen, it's Foote.

Maybe I'm just biased, but when it comes to coaching, I really believe that a successful career in the NHL for a long period of time, is really advantageous to NHL coaches in relating to their players.

Obviously there are exceptions like John Tororella, John Cooper and Alain Vigneault. But all these guys learned pretty quickly to have their players' backs.

When a guy like Foote says he knows what the players are going through--he really means it, because he's lived it.

Just an impression--but I think the mood around the team will be a lot lighter next season.

 

[I am toxic]

huh


like, huh

Top of the list, of course, is getting Pettersson back to where he needs to be. His been a star player before, but had a brutal season. The rift with Miller clearly affected him. He never really got his game going, even after Miller was traded in January.

And he was criticized by Tocchet and Allvin for his poor preparation heading into the season. Tocchet’s advice to Foote is simple: connect with Pettersson, help him manage his daily experience better.

“Have an itinerary for the day,” Tocchet suggested. “When Petey walks in the door and we have our hands on him, give him a plan: this guy’s gonna work with you for 15-20 minutes on the power-play side-wall. Then this is going to happen. And so on.”

“Footie, he’s going to have a fresh start with Petey. Footie was the defence coach, they didn’t have a lot to do with each other outside of the penalty kill,” the now-Flyers bench boss noted.

Can't find the player discussion thread for Petey, and the whole article is kinda sorta totally about Foote taking over, so mods can move it where they want and the rest of you can sue me

 

[Tinhorn1]

huh


like, huh



Can't find the player discussion thread for Petey, and the whole article is kinda sorta totally about Foote taking over, so mods can move it where they want and the rest of you can sue me

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If he has his way, Tocchet will micromanage Pettersson all the way from Philly. Because as we all know, micromanaging works.

 

[Brookbank]

There was a couple suggestions for assistant coaches on the Sekeres and Price show. It was a segment with Matt and Jeff Merek.

Merek suggested Dallas Eakins (lol) Eakins is coaching in Germany at the moment

Matt suggested Marc Crawford. And according to Matt, Marc Crawford said he has done some "intense therapy" after the Swiss league incident.

 

[me2]

There was a couple suggestions for assistant coaches on the Sekeres and Price show. It was a segment with Matt and Jeff Merek.

Merek suggested Dallas Eakins (lol) Eakins is coaching in Germany at the moment

Matt suggested Marc Crawford. And according to Matt, Marc Crawford said he has done some "intense therapy" after the Swiss league incident.

No thanks. Get some under 100. Let the past go.

 

[moiderer]

There was a couple suggestions for assistant coaches on the Sekeres and Price show. It was a segment with Matt and Jeff Merek.

Merek suggested Dallas Eakins (lol) Eakins is coaching in Germany at the moment

Matt suggested Marc Crawford. And according to Matt, Marc Crawford said he has done some "intense therapy" after the Swiss league incident.

Crawford is interesting because of so many relationships (coached Foote, coached here, his son is the vid coach). In a Rick Bowness sagely associate role, might be an interesting counterpoint to an otherwise defense heavy system.

There might be too much baggage from the history/relationships though.

 

[valkynax]

There was a couple suggestions for assistant coaches on the Sekeres and Price show. It was a segment with Matt and Jeff Merek.

Merek suggested Dallas Eakins (lol) Eakins is coaching in Germany at the moment

Matt suggested Marc Crawford. And according to Matt, Marc Crawford said he has done some "intense therapy" after the Swiss league incident.

When it comes to coaching I got slightly better insight than a week old baked potato. But even a numbskull moron such as myself I could see clear as day that Eakins is a total disaster of a coach. Dude tried the tough love approach with all the players with zero foundation while torpedoing the development of Yakupov (not all on him of course but he surely played a part in Yakupov's downfall), served fresh fruit platter for reporters coming instead of the typical coffee and pastries claiming he wants an environment of hard work ethics and health, and when EDM's losses stack up he tried to farm for sympathy by claiming how a fan told him he sucked when he was with his daughter.

Dude is a delusional incompetent idiot whose head is far up his own ass, thinking that he's some kind of messiah to EDM at the time.

 

[I am toxic]

When it comes to coaching I got slightly better insight than a week old baked potato. But even a numbskull moron such as myself I could see clear as day that Eakins is a total disaster of a coach. Dude tried the tough love approach with all the players with zero foundation while torpedoing the development of Yakupov (not all on him of course but he surely played a part in Yakupov's downfall), served fresh fruit platter for reporters coming instead of the typical coffee and pastries claiming he wants an environment of hard work ethics and health, and when EDM's losses stack up he tried to farm for sympathy by claiming how a fan told him he sucked when he was with his daughter.

Dude is a delusional incompetent idiot whose head is far up his own ass, thinking that he's some kind of messiah to EDM at the time.

 

[Coffee]

Most losses in the nhl since 1970, no cups, constant awful decisions, and some fans be like "WhY sO NeGaTive"

Why so negative when you can bike the seawall

Wake up

 

[F A N]

Divorces aren't national news.

It can be. Depends on who it is.

 

[F A N]

I was struck by the comment from Foote about working with Demko, and his fragile injury history.

He pointed out that over the course of two seasons, he had five separate injuries of variable severity. So if there's anyone who knows about injury rehabs--and all the setbacks that often happen, it's Foote.

Maybe I'm just biased, but when it comes to coaching, I really believe that a successful career in the NHL for a long period of time, is really advantageous to NHL coaches in relating to their players.

Obviously there are exceptions like John Tororella, John Cooper and Alain Vigneault. But all these guys learned pretty quickly to have their players' backs.

When a guy like Foote says he knows what the players are going through--he really means it, because he's lived it.

Just an impression--but I think the mood around the team will be a lot lighter next season.

You could have replaced Foote with Tocchet but Tocchet didn't support Petey.

 

[rypper]

Luke Schenn spoke very highly of Dallas Eakins. Maybe if he's not "the guy" but am assistant, his style would be more effective.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

I’m curious as to why he was picked over Manny.

Was he or did Manny turn down the offer?

 

[MS]

Was he or did Manny turn down the offer?

The odds that Malhotra turned down a Vancouver HC job are somewhere between slim and none.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Per Allvin and Foote, they didn't even consult Hughes. "It's about the team".

This "do if for Hughes or else he'll join his brothers" thing is a Rutherford joke.

Its really not a joke.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

The odds that Malhotra turned down a Vancouver HC job are somewhere between slim and none.

The organization is a complete circus from top to bottom.

Maybe he got an offer from a more stable team.