Fire Anders Sorensen

[Northernhawk]

Sorenson not afraid to play those that are playing well, regardless of age. I like how he puts the young guys together at times, Bedard/Reichel, Nazar on PP etc. Engaging D on offense? What a concept. Now like someone else posted, get some wingers for Bedard that don't dump pucks deep everytime they cross blue line.

Winning mentality…knowing you can finally close out a team is a huge accomplishment by Sorensen already…under Richardson, they unfortunately were losing those games, confidence gained, I have no worries about Bedard…Bertuzzi has stepped up, the defence with Jones out has stepped up, when Jones comes back that should lessen the strain on Vlasic, Murphy has stepped up, Mikheyev and Teravainen have really impressed, Bedard has changed as well, confidence, I like both Nazar and Korchinski being up now, I really like the Reichel-Maroon-Smith line and I hope when Smith is back healthy that it adds to this confident group…Kurashev might have to be moved…he’s been outplayed and other than a lesser used Anderson has been our least producing forward…
Bedard-Bertuzzi-Donato
Mikheyev-Dickinson-Teravainen
Foligno-Hall-Nazar
Smith-Reichel-Maroon
Anderson(Kurashev)

Vlasic-Jones
Murphy-Allan
Brodie/Martinez-Korchinski
Crevier(Kaiser)

Mrazek/Soderblom

I’d like to maybe see Kaiser go down, pair up with Levshunov for a bit?

 

[hockeydoug]

Not reading into much into the win. I think it would have happened with any coaching change that loosened the players up a little bit. Everybody was scared of making a mistake or being aggressive offensively except slow vets.

they're a hot mess skating around most of the time lately...but they're at least excited to be allowed to skate and effort will cover up many of the structural mistakes for a while and they'll get plenty of useful shifts before the honeymoon wear off.

Lots of Koolaid when LR had a bunch of grindy efforts, so lets give this a little while before seeing if the rookie is a NHL coach or not.

 

[giza]

So far, better than the Finnish coach with the Torpedo system the Hawks had

 

[cliffclaven]

Quietly won three in a row.. I don’t think they are a playoff team by any means, but at least they seem to be heading in the right direction.