Seems like it, especially when you combine it with Cronin's comments about how different guys need different approaches (more explaining versus yelling) and how it was a late realization for him. So we need a coach who understands that different players have different needs and is capable of taking different approaches.
I agree, we're just guessing. And I 1,000% support that PV keep it private.
He didn’t really say anything of the sort. He said (paraphrasing a little) …. I want to add a top 6 RHW and top 4 RHD, but 31 other teams can also say the same thing.
I remember Cronin and clune not seeming on the same page….
Umm sure it’s possible, but it’s far more likely the aggression will come in UFA just like he did last year.
Just seems weird last offseason he said he wants to try and add, and this year he says “Active” and aggressive. The (and I could be grasping at straws here) active part sounds trade-ish to me.
Definitely, especially if it's as the head coach of the Kings, Knights, or Oilers.
IMO it would appear to be a realization they just weren’t on the same page on the path fowrward. Though I would find it a mystery why Pat wouldn’t have already know that.
They would have had this conversation last summer, so I'm sure PV did. He gave Cronin another chance despite knowing his approach wasn't fine tuned. Didn't work out.
Yes, but he seemed to imply he only came to the realization after the team was out of the hunt this year.
I gotta assume it’s tough on a coaching staff / locker room (especially a first time head coach) when you have to bench the vets and allow the future to take over. I’d also like some direction from my GM on what is more important to him, and maybe that direction was given and not used.
I read the back and forth a while ago, but from what I understood, I thought he meant. There were some things early in the season, and then once we were out of the hunt, some more things happened, and it was really month by month cases and it just became time to pull the trigger.
But it could just mean that he came to the realization that Cronin hadn't changed, or hadn't changed enough.
Certainly possible. I just read it to be more of a sudden realization. Regardless, I’m pleased to see he did look beyond the points improvement and deeper into what it will take to build a winning team.
Reports are that he offered higher contracts then were accepted to all the top UFAs. I would call that active and aggressive.
And honestly we probably get one of them if they don’t call each and decide to team up.
