That's extremely narrow-sighted. The younger players on the team are lottery picks, where they have elite capabilities in some aspects.
Generally speaking, how he has treated Smith is far less successful than letting players play through issues, and he's only done that after the halfway point of the season, that's why it's an improvement.
You can deliberately slow down the game. A good NHL coach should be able to adapt their system to maximize team success, even with a flawed roster. Coaching to strengths doesn’t mean ignoring weaknesses—especially when it comes to defense. Structuring a more defensively responsible system, even if it sacrifices some offensive flash, could help minimize high-danger chances against and take pressure off Georgiev. Great coaches find ways to hide their team’s flaws while still leveraging their strengths, not just leaning entirely into one aspect of the game.
I don't expect gold, but maybe air out the smell a little bit, maybe some Lysol
Oh, it is an improvement--that's how bad it was last season!
I mean, haven’t they done that? This time by games, they lost 21 games by three goals or more. This year, that number is 11. They were really bad last year and they are pretty clearly not so bad while developing some top draft picks.
you’d be lying to yourself if you say he hasn’t gotten Walman and Eklund to the next level. You could also argue he’s getting a lot out of Zetts and Granlund. When the team is playing their game it’s pretty impressive, they seem to overwhelm the mid tier and lower teams and at least compete with some of the upper tier teams. I don’t like how Smith and Askarov have been handled but I blame Grier for that.
People apparently can't talk about Warsofky's coaching without referencing goal differential.
The second I read this, I thought "I'll bet @ChompChomp is the guy who was so excited about the Warsofsky hire that he said he's the next Jon Cooper. Did the search and sure enough, my instincts were right.
The only way to judge him is whether or not the team is improving and whether or not the team is minimizing the mistakes they were making at the beginning of the season. There's two rookies so it's not like experience is a problem.
How about the team getting better at getting the puck out of their own end or falling asleep less in their own zone when the trailing forward skates into the zone or less puck watching while on defense while a guy sneaks in the backdoor and gets an easy goal? Those are the benchmarks I'd like to see some level of improvement in. Doing better at the basic things in hockey.
I feel like if the team results are improving in any degree, that’s good enough for his job as a rookie coach. I don’t know why anyone has any expectations of this team.
They're 4-19 since Dec 5th. Extrapolate that over a full season and that's a 28 point season. I am pretty sure they've blown as many third period leads as they have wins in that span.
What’s wrong with treading water for a coach when you’re in the infant stages of a rebuild? I think some people just don’t have the patience to rebuild. Warsofsky is doing fine. The team is doing fine finding a new core and new identity while staying in last place which is going to do them the most good.
Nothing wrong with it, but essentially i don't see War as part of the team's future because by the time the team isn't a complete debacle of a shit show he'll be long gone. I imagine that's what happened with Quinn. David wanted to push a little harder to be competitive and Grier wasn't.
He may not be as teams go through coaches quickly and the Sharks are probably three years away from getting the talent they need to be competitive. I just don’t see a good reason to make a change there. The team is developing in a lot of different ways and most of them are positive. If we’re going to lose, might as well do it with this coach. I don’t see another coach doing anything meaningfully different or better. The guys we’re trying to develop are making strides and getting experience.
