If he has sources saying Ruff is cooked then he is cooked. Rest is him speculating.
Yes, guys coaching in a lame duck year is very awkward and not all that common because you want to avoid that awkwardness.
The last year with with Torts in Columbus was weird as f*** and very bad (in results & vibes) and that was with a very famous star coach who had obvious job opportunities waiting for him after that.
Sure, we would have done better with actual healthy NHL starters and we’ll presumably do better next year with them (we’ll have them, right? RIGHT?!?!)
If Ruff is that coach when we do better next season, then what? He gets an extension if do better? If we make the playoffs? If we do shockingly better in the regular season & show life in the playoffs?
Either they have a sense he’s someone who will potentially stick with after next year (and according to the rumor that’s a “nope”) or they should call it.
@Bleedred isn’t wrong when says it would most likely only lead to a very predictable mid-season firing. If he stays, I hope they at least hire a new ringer AC to replace him as an interim.
Hughes has had one NHL head coach and is signed for 8 years. Don’t care.
And Fitz should have learned from experience that keeping coaches to please players is dumb.
This came up with “Hall loves Hynes” and then Hall allegedly went to Buffalo because he liked Krueger in Edmonton during his 2012-13 half-season.
I realized then 1) Sometimes players might not be the best judge of NHL coaches 2) Hall’s other 4 Oiler HCs during his 6 years there must have been serial killers or something because Krueger was epically awful in every way in Buffalo.
