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Confirmed with Link: DJ Smith fired, Jacques Martin in as interim, Alfie as assistant
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Didn't even read the article... Just seems like the logical take.
Better to have an interim coach break these habits and go stale quick with the players vs the coach you just signed for a lot of money on a 3 year contract.
It's a tough love buffer.
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BonHoonLayneCornell
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Safe to say nobody wants him.
John Gruden on the other hand.
With that bad joke out of the way, I can honestly say I'd never heard of him until like a week or two ago as a potential candidate.
I'm going to start a drinking game based on every time JM says "I think".
You might start the game, but the game will finish you.
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Ah good old football chucky
Yeah I'm just in awe that he is apparently the number one candidate
BonHoonLayneCornell
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Ya it is certainly surprising. I'm hoping it's muchado about nothing and just hearsay.
I don’t think they are struggling with responsibility. I think they are struggling with consistency and details.
I think Brady responded to questions in the media with more fire and emotion than he typically would if he was older and playing the manage the media game rather than answering things honestly. He was very clearly defending his coach, and then G came out and defended his teammate. It’s all pretty obvious for what it was.
The issue isn’t with Brady teeing off at booing fans, the issue is with certain fans not being able to handle the honesty and push back from Brady in response to their behaviour. You don’t see him complaining about it constantly, you only see fans complaining about it constantly, that should tell you something.
The idea that anyone is going to impose a cap on the best talent in the game because they are young men doing young men things is ridiculous. I’m of a mind to let them have some slack to speak in the media, and is older folks can tone down the shaking fists at clouds.
My 2 cents anyways.
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Dumb comment.
It is far, far easier to teach defence and implement than teaching someone how to score. Give your head a shake
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With the leafs potentially struggling, maybe they are keeping him as a ‘just in case’ if they get rid of Keefe.
BonHoonLayneCornell
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Pretty clear the team needed to switch to Jacques earlier this year
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up to a limit. Habits are hard to break.. Mike Hoffman is king.
Players who are raised on a defensive system, have it in their blood and will instantly play a defensive system.. Flyboys, on the other hand, can develop life long habits.
Stevie Y. is one of the few flyboys who learned to play defense that I can quickly think of.
If you are going to teach defense, it has to be, to 16-21 year olds, by 24, 25 etc. good luck.
WHAT THE F? was Mann doing in Belleville?
granted a fair amount of guys bypassed Belleville
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How much longer will it take, for our Rookie GM, Rookie Owner and anyone else in management to realize that J Martin is not the answer, the team is playing worse in all aspects of the game, than they were under DJS.
No, I don’t think they should have kept DJS, or should they bring him back…. He is gone and forgotten
J Martin in NOT the long term solution, and our rookie GM need to turn this ship around asap.
Bring in the new head coach NOW, do not wait until the offseason…..
No, I don’t think they should have kept DJS, or should they bring him back…. He is gone and forgotten
J Martin in NOT the long term solution, and our rookie GM need to turn this ship around asap.
Bring in the new head coach NOW, do not wait until the offseason…..
BondraTime
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They fully understand that, hence the interim tag...
Andlauer and Staios knew this wasn't a good team, they essentially told us prior to the season this was a bad team
Sens had a cake walk start to the season, it only gets harder for a bad team moving forward, no coach is making a difference this year, it's a throwaway, and has been since the ownership was pushed until the start of the season.
A new coach is doing NOTHING, this is an atrociously built team from top to bottom
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There's a tendency I suppose to look for a quick fix. So the ensuing process is to identify a scapegoat and the place the blame for the woes of the team on your favourite scapegoat. You'll hear in essence we have some talented players, so therefore we should be winning. It's harder to admit the problems are more widespread. It's a team game. The blend of players have to work together to play winning hockey. They'll need more than just talent.
Also, they may not be even as talented as we want to believe either. It's a very competitive league and fans of their favourite team don't have deep familiarity of the other teams and their players. Talking a hard look and making an honest assessment to tough for people to do.
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The Vancouver Canucks were in the crapper, at this time last year, and instead of getting rid of the Head Coach and bringing in an interim Coach and waiting until the offseason….like our Rookie GM is doing….they brought in a new Head Coach, Rick Tocchet, almost exactly one year ago……
No he did not get them into the playoffs, and yes he was using the rest of the season to inspect under the hood of the team, on and off the ice, and they ended up finishing 3 points behind the Senators in the over all standings.
But, the time he spent with the team, in the second half of last season, set him up well to begin this season… and today, they sit 2nd overall in the NHL….. he most likely was in on the decisions that were made in the off-season changes to the roster… he would have been able to provide his insight to management if he was hired in the off season.
why is our rookie GM denying the new Head Coach the valuable time (the rest of this season) to see for himself the inner workings of the team, on and off the ice and be able to provide feedback to upper management in the offseason?
J Martin is NOT working, the team is worse in every category that matters…. Send him back upstairs and bring in the new head coach now, from the available candidates now, not in July.
BondraTime
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If our guy is available, absolutely hire him. Tocchet was available, and they grabbed him.
Everything we’re seeing is telling us the guy/s we want isn’t available.
If we end up hiring Roy or some other guy available now, yeah, we can call that short sighted, but something tells me, maybe it’s common sense, that the fact we haven’t hired one of the guys available means the guy/s we want won’t be available until after the season.
Unless you’re of the impression they should just hire a long term coach for the sake of hiring a long term coach , regardless of who they have their crosshairs on.
