Blackhawks to hire Jeff Blashill as head coach

[Go Wings]

It's not much worse. They aren't near as bad as his worse Red Wing team, and they are on the upswing, not the downward spiral that the Wings were in.

Agreed they are definitely on the upswing.

This year Chicago finished 2nd last in the league, the previous year they finished...2nd last in the league. The season before that they finished 3rd last the league.

Totally on the upswing. Good luck with Trashill you'll need it.

 

[Skiiiiiiinerrr]

I'm sure this will be full of laughs, but I think Jeff got a bit of a raw deal here in Detroit.

He was good with developing kids and had an absolute shit roster to work with. By the last half season it was clear the team had just given up on him and his voice was completely tuned out.

He was a far better coach than Lalonde was.

Well, it's time for the sequel.. baby!

 

[LarKing]

Solid at developing the kids while losing hockey games with no system to speak of. Honestly a perfect hire for Chicago to get more high picks while preparing their core

 

[Dotter]

Solid at developing the kids while losing hockey games with no system to speak of. Honestly a perfect hire for Chicago to get more high picks while preparing their core

Zadina
Cholo
Svech


Just to name a few busts under Jeff Blashill. I think he ruins young players.

 

[Bandit]

wasn’t as bad as what some wings fans made him out to be at the end. Team he had Sucked. Could be a decent hire…time will tell

Team he’s inheriting sucks too.

 

[dj Mahoney]

The tank commander is back in business.

Good luck Chicago fans.

GOOD luck with that Goalie we stuck you with ,lol

 

[Cyclones Rock]

A completely underwhelming hire.

 

[NYRnine94]

It's not much worse. They aren't near as bad as his worse Red Wing team, and they are on the upswing, not the downward spiral that the Wings were in.

Chicago won 25 games, what upswing? They are one of the worst teams in the league

 

[MabusIncarnate]

Wow they are really mastering the tank, have fun with low event hockey, 12 shots through 2 periods and a LOT of dump and chase safe play.

 

[KJoe88]

wasn’t as bad as what some wings fans made him out to be at the end. Team he had Sucked. Could be a decent hire…time will tell

Definitely better than LaLonde

 

[KJoe88]

Zadina
Cholo
Svech


Just to name a few busts under Jeff Blashill. I think he ruins young players.

lolol those players were trash to begin with

 

[ColbyChaos]

this blackhawks team is as bad if not worse, unless they make significant additions blashill is going to get run out of town quick

That Detroit team had 4 good players and not much else. The non highlighted players aren’t even in the league anymore lol

 

[ColbyChaos]

I see very few kids he developed worth a damn

I see plenty that either failed completely or were underwhelming at best

Evgeny Svechnikov
Dennis Cholowski
Giavani Smith
Michael Rasmussen
Gustav Lindstrom
Filip Zadina
Joe Veleno

Majority of kids under him did jackshit in NHL

Perhaps maybe they weren’t that good

 

[SimpleJack]

lol at all these comments from fans of other teams that are absolutely clueless when it comes to the noticeable strides the Hawks made after several late-season call ups. Several standouts like Rinzel, Nazar, Levshunov. TONS of others on their way too moving up through the system, they’ve been stockpiling. + Another top 3 pick being added in the upcoming draft. These “Bedard has no help” and “their rebuild isn’t going anywhere” takes are extremely misleading.

 

[ColbyChaos]

Can’t wait to see who the Penguins hire.

Gonna bring in torts lol

 

[Hawkaholic]

Chicago won 25 games, what upswing? They are one of the worst teams in the league

They're prospects are starting to contribute, and by the end of the season they were playing much better than at the beginning of the season. If you don't see the youth starting to make an impact, then you simply didn't watch them towards the end of the year.

 

[Tawnos]

It's obvious that people can improve at their jobs and Bruce Cassidy might be who people are thinking of when it comes to this second-team phenomenon. However, Blashill's best season with Detroit was his first one. Similarly, Dan Bylsma won a Cup in his first season with Pittsburgh and steadily got worse results. Of course, it's such a small pool of candidates that head coaches almost always get second, third and more chances. I just wonder if there's enough freshness to these job searches, rather than a list of four men who have done it before and maybe could improve results.

Most of the long-time coaches were better in their 2nd jobs than they were in their 1st ones. Generally speaking, that's why they got a 3rd. There are always exceptions to that, of course, just like anything else.

I wouldn't put too much stock into that Bylsma comparison. Bylsma had a fairly stable roster with elite players entering their primes. Blashill took over an older roster that was barely holding on to a playoff streak and was entering a rebuilding phase. Did he help them be better? Maybe, maybe not. But stepping into a team that's moving towards exiting a rebuilding phase with some elite pieces is a totally different proposition than he faced in Detroit.

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

More recycling, woooooo.

I don't get why people are so against the 'old guard'

You could be like Anaheim who tried someone new and failed miserably.

 

[Tawnos]

I don't get why people are so against the 'old guard'

You could be like Anaheim who tried someone new and failed miserably.

I get it to some extent...

But also, in the last 30 years there are 8 coaches who won the Cup on their first head coaching gig. Jon Cooper, Jared Bednar, Randy Carlyle, Dan Bylsma, John Tortorella, Bob Hartley, Ken Hitchcock, and Marc Crawford.

There are 13 who won Cups as "recycled" coaches. Paul Maurice, Bruce Cassidy, Craig Berube, Barry Trotz, Mike Sullivan, Joel Quenneville, Darryl Sutter, Claude Julien, Mike Babcock, Pat Burns, Scotty Bowman, Larry Robinson, and Jacques Lemaire.

 

[Dotter]

lolol those players were trash to begin with

Sure. Bad drafting, terrible development. Blashill was part of the latter. You don't get to cherry pick blame.

 

[ColbyChaos]

Sure. Bad drafting, terrible development. Blashill was part of the latter. You don't get to cherry pick blame.

Can’t believe Blashil just made Cholo suck, told Zadina not scoring is better than scoring and told Svech ruin his knee and end his own career in NA. What a mad lad.

Reality is wings fans were falling in love with a bunch of mid ass prospects that had low shots of even being anything noteworthy due to picking so late for so long. Outside of Zadina who just flat out busted none of Detroits busts were that great of prospects.

 

[Dotter]

Can’t believe Blashil just made Cholo suck, told Zadina not scoring is better than scoring and told Svech ruin his knee and end his own career in NA. What a mad lad.

Reality is wings fans were falling in love with a bunch of mid ass prospects that had low shots of even being anything noteworthy due to picking so late for so long. Outside of Zadina who just flat out busted none of Detroits busts were that great of prospects.

Can't believe Marco Kasper was a 4th line plug under one coach, then magically a game breaking 2nd line center stud another coach. Weird.

Almost like "development matters". Woosh.

 

[ClydeLee]

Can't believe Marco Kasper was a 4th line plug under one coach, then magically a game breaking 2nd line center stud another coach. Weird.

Almost like "development matters". Woosh.

He's also a 20 year old that was learning the league. He also never had 4th line icetime until that coach you think developed him better took over.

Kasper played under 12 mins ot seems once under Lalonde. Yet less under Todd. Including under 10 mins. He also payed more then Velano, how was he a 4th line plug of hes objectively got more icetime there?

Was coaching sognificsnt on difference or a 20 year old in his first seasons from Oct-Jan going to be different than Feb-April? Is this what he will be or was Patrick Kane or Larkin before that a big boost to his production?

If you just boil things soley to production without evaluation because you're missing so much correlation that could be the causation but thinking it's the 1 thing.

 

[KJoe88]

Sure. Bad drafting, terrible development. Blashill was part of the latter. You don't get to cherry pick blame.

But you are cherry picking…

Doesn’t matter agree that it was bad drafting.

 

[3074326]

Agreed they are definitely on the upswing.

This year Chicago finished 2nd last in the league, the previous year they finished...2nd last in the league. The season before that they finished 3rd last the league.

Totally on the upswing. Good luck with Trashill you'll need it.

To be fair, when you're that bad for so long there's really only one way to go. lol