Confirmed with Link: Brind'Amour named head coach

[tarheelhockey]

Commence meltdown.

Hurricanes assistant, former captain Rod Brind'Amour reaches deal to become next head coach :: WRALSportsFan.com

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[Unsustainable]

Nooo

 

[RodTheBawd]

Dundon is in way over his f***ing head.

 

[Guy]

 

[MinJaBen]

Miss us yet?

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Best Case: Rod turns out to be a pretty good coach.
Worst Case: Rod is a horrible coach and we are in line for a top 5 pick again next year.
Probable Case: Coaching is a bit over-rated and the Canes will continue to be a bubble team until they add more talent and fix the goaltending.

 

[Svechhammer]

Willing to give it a chance. I'm willing to bet it goes much better than people are expecting.

 

[My Special Purpose]

Clears up the GM thing, too. We're going with what we have. Bummed about everything right now. Really hard to maintain any kind of optimism.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

who?

 

[tarheelhockey]

 

[StiffSquid]

This breakfast smells rancid. But maybe if I force myself to eat it it will turn into a gourmet meal.

Time will tell

 

[Chrispy]

Coach without qualifications getting a major promotion to lead a young team at a time of transition?

If we start hearing about changing the "culture" in Raleigh be afraid.

 

[My Special Purpose]

Worst Case: Rod is a horrible coach and we are in line for a top 5 pick again next year.

Worst case is we have to forcibly part ways with another franchise icon in the next couple of years.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Maybe this is another case of not blowing things up too much all at once. From a players POV, the transition from Peters to Brindy is likely a lot less disruptive than a transition from Peters, to say Tippet (or some other coach). I don't know, just speculating.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Worst case is we have to forcibly part ways with another franchise icon inthe next couple of years.

Yeah, but that's going to happen at some point, even if Brindy went and got 3 years of AHL HC experience before taking this job. Every coach gets fired eventually.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Worst case is we have to forcibly part ways with another franchise icon inthe next couple of years.

All part of the plan. Remove franchise icons, then remove franchise.

 

[GoldiFox]

I’ve watched Brind’Amour draw up hundreds of plays. Players all huddled around watching intently. Lots of huddles, hard to say there was much impressive execution. Lots of dog shit plays. The PP was horrifying last year outside of Aho/TT making their own magic. Hard to be inspired that Brind’Amour will lead the team to success given his past performance.

I guess on the ideal side maybe he will free up the skilled players to do what they want. Hard to overcoach guys when you have literally never been a head coach at any level.

 

[Chrispy]

Maybe this is another case of not blowing things up too much all at once. From a players POV, the transition from Peters to Brindy is likely a lot less disruptive than a transition from Peters, to say Tippet (or some other coach). I don't know, just speculating.

I thought Dundon was trying to disrupt things here.

Waddell and Brind'Amour may be a lot of things, but disruptive ain't among them.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Notice: if we hire Chad LaRose as his assistant, I'm done

 

[Lempo]

This breakfast smells rancid. But maybe if I force myself to eat it it will turn into a gourmet meal.

Time will tell

Surströmming - Wikipedia

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I thought Dundon was trying to disrupt things here.

Waddell and Brind'Amour may be a lot of things, but disruptive ain't among them.

I know, but there's only so much you can disrupt at one time and still have a chance to be successful. It will be interesting to see what player moves occur. I don't think it will be as much as many of us expect.

 

[Oogie Boogie]

 

[tarheelhockey]

Surströmming - Wikipedia

Good lord

 

[spockBokk]

I don’t think I could be more apathetic. “Change is coming!!!”...”Introducing new coach, Rod Brind’Anour and new GM, Don Waddell”....

 

[Tryamw]

I won't say that I am impressed. (as I am most definitely not) I guess they could have named me coach. (I never applied since it'd be like hiring Larry the Dr. Pepper guy except I have even less exposure.)