Fire Luke Richardson

[Pez68]

Luke Richardson was being brought in to develop a culture and identity for this team. We heard it talked about constantly last season. I don't see it. That's the biggest indictment on the coaching staff. They don't have any identity, and I see jack shit for culture. Players aren't held accountable(aside from Reichel). He loves his useless asshole plugs, and plays them late in games with Bedard on the f***ing bench. Their defensive zone coverage is abysmal. The power play sucks. The Murphy/Tinordi pairing is just absolute braindead nonsense, that anyone who knows shit about hockey could see would be a DISASTER. This is all on the coaching staff, and has nothing to do with talent.

 

[MicronMega]

He is coaching an AHL team in the NHL. What more can you expect?

 

[Pez68]

He is coaching an AHL team in the NHL. What more can you expect?

See above.

 

[Salvaged Ship]

Luke Richardson was being brought in to develop a culture and identity for this team. We heard it talked about constantly last season. I don't see it. That's the biggest indictment on the coaching staff. They don't have any identity, and I see jack shit for culture. Players aren't held accountable(aside from Reichel). He loves his useless asshole plugs, and plays them late in games with Bedard on the f***ing bench. Their defensive zone coverage is abysmal. The power play sucks. The Murphy/Tinordi pairing is just absolute braindead nonsense, that anyone who knows shit about hockey could see would be a DISASTER. This is all on the coaching staff, and has nothing to do with talent.

80 percent of the roster is useless asshole plugs, Richardson is one as well. I just hope Bedard can handle losing like this without getting really frustrated. Its why I keep saying they need to bring in something better this next offseason, not full blown going for it by any means but a piece or two with some better veterans to mix with the kids.

 

[Kevin Musto]

80 percent of the roster is useless asshole plugs, Richardson is one as well. I just hope Bedard can handle losing like this without getting really frustrated. Its why I keep saying they need to bring in something better this next offseason, not full blown going for it by any means but a piece or two with some better veterans to mix with the kids.

Bedard will be fine

It only becomes a problem when he's in his 9th year of playing and the organization is still a mess that can't build a team around him (see: McDavid and the Oilers)

 

[Chuck Testa]

I’d like to see how AA looks on a line with Bedard.

Never know, they might click well.

 

[ChiHawks10]

I’d like to see how AA looks on a line with Bedard.

Never know, they might click well.

AA doesn't have the brains to play with Bedard.

 

[deytookerjaabs]

At this point Davidson should send some type of message that the team needs to be playing semi-responsible hockey in their zone regardless of the score. Maybe replace Lu's sidemen and in the process rain a little firebrand to the vets in the locker room. Giving up unearned high danger chances against every shift is not directly correlated to the talent level on the roster.

 

[MTU34]

Let’s not forget that this time last year this place was concerned that Richardson was “too good” to land us Bedard. There have been a ton of problems with the coaching staff to start this season, but it’s been 20ish games. Time to be concerned? Absolutely. Time to fire everyone? Probably not

 

[belfour30]

It's not that they're losing, it's how they're losing.

Nobody has any delusions about what this team is.

 

[featherhawk]

AA doesn't have the brains to play with Bedard.

Agreed totally, a player needs to be at a specific Cerebral level in order to play with a guy like Bedard and many other high end hockey players.

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Luke Richardson was being brought in to develop a culture and identity for this team. We heard it talked about constantly last season. I don't see it. That's the biggest indictment on the coaching staff. They don't have any identity, and I see jack shit for culture. Players aren't held accountable(aside from Reichel). He loves his useless asshole plugs, and plays them late in games with Bedard on the f***ing bench. Their defensive zone coverage is abysmal. The power play sucks. The Murphy/Tinordi pairing is just absolute braindead nonsense, that anyone who knows shit about hockey could see would be a DISASTER. This is all on the coaching staff, and has nothing to do with talent.

Thank you for putting it in a way that I couldn’t.

 

[Hockeyman1962]

I don’t care, call it an overreaction thread or whatever. This guy sucks, already lost the locker room. Time to go idiot.

Blackhawks need more than a new coach this is a noncompetitive nhl team period embarrassing

 

[jaysoneil]

Bedard was a 17 year old just 5 months ago. The majority of the current roster isn't going to be here when Bedard and the Blackhawks start hitting their peak stride. Hell, Nazaar, Moore and Rinzel aren't even on the roster yet.

This is the floor. One year into a full teardown, you can't really expect much better.

 

[MicronMega]

Steve Konroyd does a nice d-zone breakdown of the Hawks on the highlights of On the Fly from todays game vs Minn. A lot of it originates with lost 50/50 battles and then compounds with duplication which opens up seams. They did a similar breakdown with LA who has been one of the better defensive teams and the main difference is the sort outs, communication and how tight they are to their checks.

 

[JaegerDice]

Fire the coach because the season is going exactly to plan outside of an unforeseen Corey Perry issue? Lol

The plan was always to suck this season. We can discuss the merits of changing coaches when its time to compete

 

[Kevin Musto]

Fire the coach because the season is going exactly to plan outside of an unforeseen Corey Perry issue? Lol

The plan was always to suck this season. We can discuss the merits of changing coaches when its time to compete

Agreed.

Except when it comes to the power play. There's really no reason for it to be this bad. Bedard should be profiting big time off his PP minutes.

 

[TheFridge]

Agreed.

Except when it comes to the power play. There's really no reason for it to be this bad. Bedard should be profiting big time off his PP minutes.

The problem is that Bedard is the only player on our PP that belongs on a 1st PP unit on an NHL team. The PP being bad makes a ton of sense.

 

[JaegerDice]

Agreed.

Except when it comes to the power play. There's really no reason for it to be this bad. Bedard should be profiting big time off his PP minutes.

That's a good point.

I guess I'm just used to the Blackhawks having a mediocre-to-bad PP regardless of talent

At least nobody is doing a Carmelo Anthony impression this season

 

[CallMeShaft]

The problem is that Bedard is the only player on our PP that belongs on a 1st PP unit on an NHL team. The PP being bad makes a ton of sense.

Yep.

And it's made all the worse with pretty much no other right shots who can play on their offside on the top unit. Forces Bedard to play there, when he's shown more over the years playing near the right circle.

Maybe Nazar can fill that spot in the future and allow Bedard to play his preferred position on the PP, but that doesn't help us now.

 

[WarriorofTime]

“I can handle the losing, it’s the things associated with losing that I can’t tolerate.”

Y’all are so crazy lmao. Tank roster. Imagine thinking a bunch of rookie dmen a couple of plugs and an overpaid guy were going to not look structurally a mess defensively sometimes.

 

[HagelsBagels]

Luke will get the full year but next year they have a bad start and he might get Denis Savard'd

 

[Northernhawk]

Luke will get the full year but next year they have a bad start and he might get Denis Savard'd

Actually I compare this team to the ones of. 2004-2007…so Richardson is actually Trent Yawney…then it was Denis Savard, close to playoff only to be canned a handful of games into the following season…so maybe Derek Plante takes over? He was in UMinnDul which is Norm McIver terrritory…hmmmmmm

 

[HeisenBaez]

Hawks are not going to fire Luke in a developmental season. Just like the players, Luke is still developing as a coach. It's frustrating but patience is needed.

 

[SimpleJack]

Luke Richardson was being brought in to develop a culture and identity for this team. We heard it talked about constantly last season. I don't see it. That's the biggest indictment on the coaching staff. They don't have any identity, and I see jack shit for culture. Players aren't held accountable(aside from Reichel). He loves his useless asshole plugs, and plays them late in games with Bedard on the f***ing bench. Their defensive zone coverage is abysmal. The power play sucks. The Murphy/Tinordi pairing is just absolute braindead nonsense, that anyone who knows shit about hockey could see would be a DISASTER. This is all on the coaching staff, and has nothing to do with talent.

I understand the concept, I just think it’s all gonna become irrelevant when in a couple years there’s an almost entirely different looking roster and probably a different head coach/coaching staff too.

Luke will get the full year but next year they have a bad start and he might get Denis Savard'd

This

He’s not even gonna be here for when things really start coming together.