Confirmed with Link: Dave Cameron Fired (along with Tourigny, Wamsley) (starts at post 208)

[DrunkUncleDenis]

What is Dorion wating for? Promoting head coach of one of the worst teams in AHL is a no-brainer.

I may actually shed a tear if this happens.

 

[BatherSeason]

Dorion should have completely cleaned house and canned Richardson too.

 

[Tundraman]

It couldn't end any other way but firing all the coaches otherwise every lateral move / non move would have undermined Melnyk's credibility even more than many already think. This move at least gives Dorion some appearance of being his own man. When you get older and/or ill you get to be a bit more reflective and sensitive so I doubt BM would have had the stomach to fire Cameron and that may be one reason why he stepped down as GM.

That doesn't let the key players off the hook. They got Maclean publicly embarrassed and then fired by BM saying he wasn't nice enough to them or too tough. Cameron it seems was too nice and let a few of them run the team and play as they saw fit ie...style, toi. We can't absolve the coaches either because it's obvious they lacked imagination on special teams and were guilty of repeat, repeat, repeat... always trying to set up the pp from the points and/or the one timer then giving up the points and boards on the pk and when the play was at their end at even strength. Many times the line combos were baffling and it often seemed that toi reward for good play was non existent.

 

[Lenny the Lynx]

Yes!

 

[Back in Black]

Well we can't blame Murray for "firing another coach".

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

Dorion should have completely cleaned house and canned Richardson too.

I don't think he has a contract for next year so that would seem unnecessary.

 

[operasen]

Don't think Wamsley deserved the axe, but a casalty of war. Gotta give the new guy free rein to bring in whoever he wants.

I hope they are not looking to place Smith in Binghamton. He was to be offered a position within the organization - I hope its not developing our young D. He has been horrible at that to date.

So pleased Cameron is gone. Dorion stepped up and did what had to be done. Now he needs to find an experienced, winning, NHL coach to take the helm and let him hire good Assistants.

Julien makes the short list I'd think. Tippett staying in Arizona. Not convinced with Yeo

 

[ChocolateLeclaire]

Dorion should have completely cleaned house and canned Richardson too.

Why? Because he had one bad season in Binghamton with a completely depleted farm team and two young goalies plying their trade in professional hockey?

Prior to that, the man developed guys like Stone, Hoffman, Dzingel, Paul, etc and had them all ready to play for the big club.

Richardson will be hired away as an HC by another NHL team soon. He's highly regarded around the league for his ability to mentor and develop players. Hopefully, Dorion isn't as short-sighted as you and makes finding a new job for him easier.

 

[BonkTastic]

IMO, if they were planning on promoting Luke Richardson, they would have done it today.

"We fired the old coach, and promoted the AHL guy". That's usually how it is.

 

[Johnny Hanson]

I don't think he has a contract for next year so that would seem unnecessary.

This. Luke signed a 1 year extension last summer so he already doesn't have a contract for next season. Can't fire somebody who is a free agent coach

 

[Micklebot]

Also: stop our good coaches from getting weird and losing the room. Lookin' at you here, Maclean.

That could probably apply to Clouston too, except that he didn't get weird, he was weird to begin with. Maybe we should have hired a middle man to be the go between for him and the players (and the media for that matter, pehaps have him avoid all human contact).

 

[operasen]

Kinda happy our conditioning coach left also.

Didn't read that in the article - supplementary casualty??

 

[Alex1234]

Finally!!

I remember when someone in november or december ask him about his weird decisions and he said to the journalist he could apply for the job when it would become available with the most arrogant look Ive seen...

DC didn't think it would come that fast I bet

Good riddance

 

[Salem13]

Take good care of Claude

 

[Sens]

Bruins need to fire Claude Julien now

This is almost to perfect... Stars please align

 

[starling]

Richardson will be hired away as an HC by another NHL team soon. He's highly regarded around the league for his ability to mentor and develop players. Hopefully, Dorion isn't as short-sighted as you and makes finding a new job for him easier.

What's the benefit of mentoring and developing players if your team just can't get **** done with all the great players you've developed?
I mean it could work for AHL as your goal is to develop players there but for NHL it makes no sense.

 

[Rodzilla]

I don't wish bad to anyone, but considering they make 6 figures for a living I won't feel bad saying I am glad they cleaned the house. I wanted major changes I got them. Playing Boro on your first line was an embarassement. Also glad Tourigny is gone, no reasons for our PP to be that garbage. With the talent we have the zone entries and PP deployment was downright awful.


Now we have to find a good one.

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDoo]

I'm going to miss the Gord Wilson / Dave Cameron interviews on the Sens pre-game shows. At times Cameron was so snippy with Gord, who was always doing his best to be a always-positive-about-the-Sens-brown-noser... and he just didn't know how to react to Cameron getting ticked off. It was gold.

 

[Caeldan]

Oh happy days!
Bit sad about Wamsley, think he's done well with our goalies recently. Not sure who we go after next on that front.
Some day I'd love to have Mitch Korn here but that's a pipe dream

 

[BonkTastic]

Also glad Tourigny is gone, no reasons for our PP to be that garbage.

The extra weird thing about that is that our Power Play looked really good for like the first 15 games or so this season.

Then it looked sort of ok...

... then the wheels came off after ~game 25 or so, and was a 5-alarm tire fire for the rest of the season.




Like, what happened?

 

[ChocolateLeclaire]

I don't wish bad to anyone, but considering they make 6 figures for a living I won't feel bad saying I am glad they cleaned the house. I wanted major changes I got them. Playing Boro on your first line was an embarassement. Also glad Tourigny is gone, no reasons for our PP to be that garbage. With the talent we have the zone entries and PP deployment was downright awful.


Now we have to find a good one.

The powerplay sucking all season was embarrassing. You had the best offensive defenceman the game has seen in 30 years, you have a former 30 goal-scorer, a current, on-pace, 30 goal scorer, a solid centre and last year's Calder runner-up and you couldn't do anything with it?!! Ever the 5-on-3's stunk.

 

[operasen]

Oh happy days!
Bit sad about Wamsley, think he's done well with our goalies recently. Not sure who we go after next on that front.
Some day I'd love to have Mitch Korn here but that's a pipe dream

Must have asked Anderson about it.

 

[BatherSeason]

What's the benefit of mentoring and developing players if your team just can't get **** done with all the great players you've developed?
2014-15 Bingo had a great team on paper. Yet they just couldn't defend and couldn't kill penalties at all.

Not to mention the fact that Zach Stortini got to play everyday where as guys like Paul and Lindberg seemed to be healthy scratched on numerous occasions.

Richardson is and has always been overrated by Sens fans.

 

[SensBrawler]

Hopefully our next coach understands that playing Boro as a forward is a bad idea.

 

[BatherSeason]

The extra weird thing about that is that our Power Play looked really good for like the first 15 games or so this season.

Then it looked sort of ok...

... then the wheels came off after ~game 25 or so, and was a 5-alarm tire fire for the rest of the season.




Like, what happened?

They took a Hoffman off the first unit and replaced him with guys like Chiasson.

Then when Cameron finally decided to put Hoff back, the chemistry was gone.