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Bragin could work head coach in NHL?

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If he's offered an opportunity to coach in the NHL and a good contract along with it, he definitely will accept.
Will he succeed and adjust ? Not to sure about that one
 
Hasn't succeeded even in the KHL. Does he even have a 100 games under his belt there?

NHL teams do like flavor-of-the-month type coaches though...
 
Come on.. Are you trying to be funny?

He is a great coach in juniors, but the Russian team deserves just as much credit, players are solid
 
The first European to be an NHL Head Coach will be a Swede or Finn who speaks perfect English without much of an accent.
 
It's unbelievable in a global sport like Hockey , in it's premier league there's only still majority Canadians and Americans. Hard to change the game when both bring just one mentality and thinking to the sport.
 
US and Canada are xenophobic compared to Europe. Theres various foreign coaches in Russian sports.
 
Didn't Keenan win the KHL championship? Why couldn't a Russian coach be successful here, if he's clearly among the brightest hockey minds in the world?

Assuming Bragin has understandable English, I see no reason why a GM of a struggling team (i.e. Blue Jackets) wouldn't take a long look at this possibility. It probably won't happen, but due diligence would require at least exploring the possibility.
 
I think a good candidate would be Vyacheslav Butsaev. I've heard him speaking English to the foreign players.
 
Not sure that NHL has best coaches at the same % as it has the best players.. at all sure. I think he could, too.
 
Honestly I don't think he could b/c he has not proven to be good coach in KHL. His results with Spartak were mediocre. On the other hand, I can clearly see other Russian coaches try to work in NHL but it seems that's considered too risky (just like euro coaches in NBA — very rare occasion.
 
Bragin is not cut out to be an big leagues coach - for many reasons:
1) he expects his players to listen and obey
2) he expects them to play a system - his system and fully buy in
3) he is first of all a motivator (best one there is out there today), but not a very good X's and O's coach

Coaching adults - this does NOT work, they stop buying hist motivational speeches and that's the end of it. He also overplays his best players heavily to exhaustion and has no faith in bottom 6.
 
Without even knowing how qualified he would be - few things;

How is his English? What does his resumee look like? And of course, NHL management jobs seem to be very "insider" things.
 
This is Bragin's 5th time coaching WJC, and his 5th trip to the final game. Damn.
 
cska78 said:
Bragin is not cut out to be an big leagues coach - for many reasons:
1) he expects his players to listen and obey
2) he expects them to play a system - his system and fully buy in
3) he is first of all a motivator (best one there is out there today), but not a very good X's and O's coach

Coaching adults - this does NOT work, they stop buying hist motivational speeches and that's the end of it. He also overplays his best players heavily to exhaustion and has no faith in bottom 6.
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He reminds me a great deal of the Russian coaches of old- Tarasov, Chernyshev, etc. Is this a fair comparison?
 
1990 said:
He reminds me a great deal of the Russian coaches of old- Tarasov, Chernyshev, etc. Is this a fair comparison?
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Possibly, don't mean to pretend to be an expert, but his methods are similar to old-soviet coaching, yet the playing field has changed and it doesn't work on adults spoiled by early money, having no scare factor such as k.party.
 
cska78 said:
Bragin is not cut out to be an big leagues coach - for many reasons:
1) he expects his players to listen and obey
2) he expects them to play a system - his system and fully buy in
3) he is first of all a motivator (best one there is out there today), but not a very good X's and O's coach

Coaching adults - this does NOT work, they stop buying hist motivational speeches and that's the end of it. He also overplays his best players heavily to exhaustion and has no faith in bottom 6.
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I don't know anything about his coaching system, but you make a good point how different coaching adults and teens are. And also tournament vs. league season.

OP can make this thread again when Bragin does this in men's level (in any of the three tournaments).
 
snipes said:
Didn't Keenan win the KHL championship? Why couldn't a Russian coach be successful here, if he's clearly among the brightest hockey minds in the world?

Assuming Bragin has understandable English, I see no reason why a GM of a struggling team (i.e. Blue Jackets) wouldn't take a long look at this possibility. It probably won't happen, but due diligence would require at least exploring the possibility.
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Blue Jackets are 15-15-2 under Torterella, he's definitely not being fired
 
It's also worth noting (speaking of the Blue Jackets) that Jarmo Kekalainen is currently a GM in Columbus. If a European can GM a team, there's no reason one couldn't coach.
 
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