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Dermot in game 6 was worse imo. Team was in total control in OT and he decided to make a cute play on a 3 foot clear.
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Dermot in game 6 was worse imo. Team was in total control in OT and he decided to make a cute play on a 3 foot clear.
zeke
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this gets us a much needed extra day of rest on thursday.
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Yeah this is good. We have played like the most games in the league to this point anyways so lightening up the load now and moving a game to later in the season is a win.
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Guys Carolina just lost to the Canucks. They are no longer contenders.
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Gives Flames an opportunity to right their ship as they've won only about one out of 6 games.
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Dermott’s turnover was absolutely awful and completely brain-dead as well, but at least has the chance to make up for his mistake in the future. Galchenyuk will never wear a Leafs jersey again.
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I recall someone in the past posting that isn't the case. Not sure if they were just pimping Keefe or it was a real thing.
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Chicago went on a run right after the coach was fired as well. I am not sure if it is a thing or if we tend to only remember the runs and cast out when things remain status quo
Don't know the stats to validate if that is true that most teams go on a run after hiring a new coach but I'll assume it to be true.
I think the reason it happens is probably because it feels like a new season again regardless of where you are in the standings. There is renewed hope, everyone starts at the ground level regardless of how things ended with the old coach. The new coach has no bias for or against you so you try harder to perhaps start off on the right note so you're not left behind as sooner or later, all coaches have their favorites and guys they rely on in key situations and if you're on the fringe, you will likely not be on the team long term in a big role.
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Yeah could be. Seems reasonable to me that teams would turn it around in the short term but then start losing again.
Teams who fire coaches usually aren't very good but obviously there are exceptions to that.
Might be a combination of players feeling reinvigorated and a new system put in place that actually breeds results than a stale one that just wasn't working. I'm sure we've all had a manager or boss who sucked the morale out of the company (Babcock) and/or held the business back with some archaic ideas (not putting Matthews and Marner together) or low impacting decisions (not unleashing Matthews' potential).
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I doubt they put in much of a news system that quickly, probably run something very simple.
The players do get a clean slate though so they'll want to look like someone the new coach can count on.
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On average, they don't.
That's because just as often as a bad coach gets fired because a team is underachieving, a good coach gets fired as a scapegoat for a bad team. On average when looking at coaching changes in all sports, there's no short term positive boost overall - just as many teams do poorly as do well after a coaching change.
I think the Flyers are 2-2-0 under their new coach, for example.
When you do see a team change like the Canucks have changed, especially if it keeps up, I'd tend to credit that to a roster that was just better than it was playing and a coach that had maybe lost the room. And imo, I never really understood why Travis Green had an NHL coaching job in the first place, let alone kept it that long.
So myself i'm not dismissing the canucks as just a coaching change boost. Obviously they won't stay perfect under Bruce, but he's a much better coach than Green and while not a world beating roster it's a team that should probably be doing much better in that iffy division.
Of course it also helps if your goalie goes on a heater, like Demko has with a .962 those four games.
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Interesting that the President hires an AGM before the GM ... Seems like JR will have a lot of authority in that front office.
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usually, as kids, we learn in grade 7 how not to build a weak foundation or have "chicken legs". You can be all buffed up but if you can't run because you are weak behind that one spot and expecting it cover all your weakness...the tower will tumble seems like the case.
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