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Best Rangers coach since Keenan?

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Who was our best coach since '94?

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FoxyClean

FoxyClean

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Personally I think it's between Torts and AV, and seeing as they're now both coaching division rivals, I thought it'd be interested to make this poll.

Only included coaches who made the playoffs.
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It's hard to choose between the last 3. They were all good coaches who had nice runs here... everyone shits on the coaches during and after their tenure but the fact is you will always disagree with some things a coach does and every coach runs his course

It's probably AV. Had the most success and led the team back from two 3-1 holes. We eventually forgive him for starting 7 D in Game 7 vs Tampa.
 
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The problem with this whole thing is that they're all better than Keenan. He was a mean spirited egomaniac who sacrificed players careers for his own. He just happened to win a championship. That's what makes him equal to Torts. Two dbags who lucked out with great players but really didn't know shit.
 
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SML2 said:
The problem with this whole thing is that they're all better tham Keenan. He was a mean spirited egomaniac who sacrificed players careers for his own. He just happened to win a championship. That's what makes him equal to Torts. Two dbags who lucked out with great players but really didn't know ****.
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Torts hardly "lucked out" with great players.

He squeezed a lot of of good rosters that didn't have oodles of talent.
 
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AV’s first season here after the Torts era was good. But that quickly withered away and I eventually began to loathe his wussy turtling style of hockey.

I vote Torts. Despite the lack of creativity + X’s and O’s in his coaching style, he really got his players playing at a respectable effort.

Renney reminded me of Torts a bit minus the rage. Quinn seems like a mix between Torts and Renney in many ways.

Campbell just flat out sucked, imo.
 
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Picked Torts because he had the players playing for something every night!! Tough call on AV, though. Although he murdered development paths for the younger players, he did coach the team to two Eastern Conference final runs and a Stanley Cup run!!
 
Joey Bones said:
I wasn't even born yet, lolol....
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You both suck.

Wait till the white hairs start coming... And then stop coming completely.

My ass quadruples every time I even think about eating a cheeseburger.

You guys didn’t miss much with Campbell. He couldn’t get us past the Flyers in the playoffs.. (Not that we as a team deserved to). His post game interviews made me want to punch a baby llama in the head.

He was very bland. And that personality rubbed off with the team imo.
 
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Went with AV because he got us to a Stanley Cup Final once and were one game away from another.

I definitely could see how Torts or Renney could be chosen here as well. Both were great here.

Not sure about Campbell as that was before my time.
 
The one year in the playoffs Torts dresses Bickel every night but never plays him--sits him on the end of the bench and that's it. He averaged two minutes a game for like 18 games and the Rangers were going into double and triple overtime just leaning like crazy on the other 5 D. Girardi, McD and Staal would be getting insane amounts of ice time. If Torts didn't trust a player he didn't play him--so we see kind of an evolution for him now playing 6 D in the playoffs because I don't think an Adam Clendening for one would have gotten better treatment than Bickel did several years ago.
 
Hire Sather said:
Torts hardly "lucked out" with great players.

He squeezed a lot of of good rosters that didn't have oodles of talent.
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Torts is not an x/o hockey coach. He's a personality manager. His style generally isn't sustainable and that why we didn't win when he was here. He puts his foot on the pedal and runs the engine until it explodes. There's a reason teams don't play like it's game 7 of the finals in October. Torts drove this team like a getaway car and by the playoffs, there was nothing left in the tank. When you're playing a 6 goalie system and your actual goalie is prime Henrik, you're going to win more than you lose. My issue with Torts is he's a fair weather coach. If you're winning he's a great guy. If you lose, he will throw someone under the bus to save himself every single time. Then when there is an issue that possibly could fall on him, he throws a hissy fit in the presser and refuses to answer any remotely challenging questions. Any time there was ever a play that needed to be drawn up, it was never Torts. Torts just stands on the bench and yells at people. Sullivan was doing all the coaching here. Both he and Keenan manged players under threat of career ending banishment and that is why I have no love for either of them.
 
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