TheBigBadB
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well certainly sounds like Julien is coming back. Not sure I like this at all. Team is stale as hell and needs a change. Vets can not come into next season thinking they have a place secured under Juliens wing.
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I'm not sure what this means, the presser with him included shows more towards us keeping him, but with Neecobs presser next week maybe they give him the boot and talk about the "new direction" of the team.
PrisonMike
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That was my first thought as well. They had the presser last year and two days later Chia was fired
Estlin
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Well, that would suck.
True. I remember that Chiarelli spoke a few days before being fired. Maybe the same thing will happen with Julien.
TheBigBadB
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True but how backwards is that? That would again make me question the decision making of management
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PlayMakers
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Which vets? To my eyes, only one vet really underperformed this season: Rask. Otherwise, Marchand, Bergeron and Krug had career years. Krejci was hot and cold but he's always hot and cold and .88 points per game is a 100th of a point off his career best.
Chara is declining but that's to be expected and not going to change. Seidenberg is declining too and that's not a surprise to anyone who watched him last year. Hayes was scratched 7 times this year so I don't think he would consider himself secure.
The rest of this lineup is young; Spooner, Pasta, Connolly, Acciari, Ferraro, Vatrano, Colin Miller....
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They could do something outrageous and promote claude?
Imagine the controversy here?
Awesome.
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GarbageGoal
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But wasn't the Chia press conference the day after the season ended, before the "sit down"?
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Who knows maybe he's requested to go to Ottawa which would be a perfect place for him personally (home) and working for a friend. Stranger things have happened.
I assume Julien won't be announcing at the press conference that he is deciding to step into a front-office role.
The decision to keep him actually increases my confidence in Sweeney. He didn't do the knee-jerk, fan-friendly thing.
It's an admission that, though the team clearly needs a big shake-up, the answer isn't changing the coach. No coach could have taken the team very far with the shambles on D of this team. No coach.
It will be interesting to see how frank Julien will be tomorrow about what he thinks should be done to fix the team.
The decision to keep him actually increases my confidence in Sweeney. He didn't do the knee-jerk, fan-friendly thing.
It's an admission that, though the team clearly needs a big shake-up, the answer isn't changing the coach. No coach could have taken the team very far with the shambles on D of this team. No coach.
It will be interesting to see how frank Julien will be tomorrow about what he thinks should be done to fix the team.
I honestly thought it would be pretty fast if Claude was fired. If he goes through with the press conference no way will he be fired . Sweeney basically put him through the ringer last yr and that won't happen again. It probably isn't a hard decision in Sweeney mind one way or another.
TheBigBadB
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They were the worst team in the league the last 12 games! Are you telling me the team isn't lacking leadership that they couldn't even manage a better record than the Oilers?!
wintersej
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Yeah, the vets has good years. But they can't do it alone. I'm honestly surprised the team looks to be keeping Julien. It's probably the right move, but the end of the season was so disappointing you want to see blood. Hard to fire a HOF coach when you give him a bottom tier D, though. Hopefully, the bloodlust gets fulfilled by tearing up the D core.
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not what he said. he said what vets should be worried and listed his reasons why specific vets should not be. The others are young players and our other vets are gone as free agents.
I think he goes because the team will change, I know the marlies have 47 players so they had two practices, with all these signings prov is getting stacked. Claude is good with a few young players (dougie, pasta, seguin) but I think he struggled with balancing the amount of young players, not necessarily in age but experience. I see a coach like Leaman being brought in, as he has experience with players at that age, and one who can grow with the team. Long term this core seems past its shot, mostly due to the backend.
Revamp the lineup, go towards youth, but sign players like yandle/shatt etc. young vets who can age with the lineup like kelly/seids/ savard did. Time for a new age before we have to start from scratch.
Revamp the lineup, go towards youth, but sign players like yandle/shatt etc. young vets who can age with the lineup like kelly/seids/ savard did. Time for a new age before we have to start from scratch.
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Will be happy if they keep Julien. And even happier that the Clode fire squad had their dreams squashed.
PlayMakers
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No, I'm telling you that a new coach isn't going to change how secure Bergeron feels, or have any effect on Chara's decline.
There is simply no way this team lacks leadership. Our leaders are awesome, I don't care what happens on the ice. Find another area to look for issues.
TheBigBadB
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They all should be worried since they been in two season ending collapses. Some of this is the same core! Sounds like the country club atmosphere is hitting the fans as well.
They need a shake up and it's not letting Talbot walk at the end of the season. Real change or we will be in another Medicore season next year..book it
PlayMakers
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Or by sacrificing one of the "core."
Personally, I'd rather see them flip the bird to the bloodthirsty. Be reasonable, do something smart. Keep the assets that are good (and Julien is among those assets), and add to them.
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