Coaching is a serious problem.

[Hannibal]

This team is starting to have bad habits. Management needs to do something if not, we are going down into Buffalo, Ottawa, etc kind of rebuild.

They need a new coaching staff!

 

[ryan callahan]

It's his job to motivate, put them in situations to succeed and "discipline" when needed. He's the boss after all.

No. The boss is the one who built this awful joke of a team. MSL has to do with what he has, which isn't much.

 

[Hannibal]

I’m not asking for more wins, because i’m not blind, that roster is atrocious.

But i see bad habits, no structure and no culture. That’s start with coaching staff.

 

[TRG]

The good ol' days when we had Character and grit

And No Excuses

I get it, we have an inexperienced defense. But it's not normal that our best players and our veterans all look lost in this system, not knowing what to do. The vets, they've seen many systems, they would know what to do.

Habs are not getting beat because of lack of effort (although the continuous sucking will have negative effects), they're getting beat because they're confused about what is asked of them.

 

[Kennedys]

As a french canadian i say can we just stop with the "Habs coach need to speak french" ?. Get a real coach ffs. He could speak only japanese for all i care.

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

This team is starting to have bad habits. Management needs to do something if not, we are going down into Buffalo, Ottawa, etc kind of rebuild.

They need a new coaching staff!

MSL should have just been a transitional coach to play out the half season. Allow players to reset, and management to reassess who they had with MSL getting first hand knowledge

Thats all he should have been

 

[RationalExpectations]

I think the problem with Martin is that he try to teach how he saw the game as a player. But he was a special kind of player, an all star. The average player probably doesn't connect with his way of seeing things.

This is exactly right, same in the offensive zone, Suzuki and CC are producing more with StLouis vs Ducharme because they have much more leeway in the Ozone. However your less creative players need structure. MSL is unable to provide that.

 

[RationalExpectations]

Funny how fans will do anything but blame players. Our so called stars are giving awful efforts and it is falling on the back of MSL. Dach doesn't deserve to be a center or a winger right now. His only playable position is eating hot dogs in the stands. He's terrible.

Players should also be held accountable and I don't think fans are saying it s only MSL but this thread is about coaching so what did you expect ?

 

[RationalExpectations]

I’m not asking for more wins, because i’m not blind, that roster is atrocious.

But i see bad habits, no structure and no culture. That’s start with coaching staff.

I am going to stop you right here. Roster quality goes to a certain point : in any team of the NHL, Slavin Orlov Ghost Burns Chatfield Walker would be Seen as an average Dcore, yet CAR dominantes, offensively they don't have McDavid but they re applying so much pressure as a team that they get the puck back.
Habs should study thé canes, take a coach willing to implement that system and then we could talk about possible roster improvements.