LONGGGGGGG overdue.
But I said at the beginning of this road trip that it's probably coming at the end of the road trip (like a day or two before Christmas lol) unless they somehow surprise with a good road trip.
This should have happened even before the ownership change/before Staois even came in, but no later than when that happened.
I've been saying that for the last month or so it seems they've done their own take on Shero sending Fitz to the bench to babysit Hynes, so it was beyond obvious Smith was on life support. They had Alfredsson on the bench for the games in Sweden and Jacques Martin was brought in a week or two ago to be some kind of ''Advisor to the coaching staff'' so you knew it wouldn't go on too much longer.
He's a horrible head coach and since Babcock's reputation was been MAJORLY disgraced since the Sens hired DJ Smith 4.5 years ago, I'm skeptical he gets another head coaching job in the NHL anytime soon. Maybe people really like him like they like Hynes? But Hynes was pretty much being groomed to be an NHL head coach for a lot longer than Smith had been before each were hired to their first jobs, and we did make the playoffs the one year under Hynes. The Sens haven't made the playoffs once under DJ Smith, not even in the covid bubble playoffs.
So now we get to play the Sens at the end of the month post-coaching change. That could either benefit us or not. Because if they hadn't made the change, we probably would have given DJ Smith and them their first win in who knows how long, like the other cream of the crap loser suck teams we play. But they'll probably play a little better now that he's gone (they weren't playing well AT ALL under him this year) and maybe we'll get up for that one.
