I stand by my point that hiring Trotz would be a collassal overcorrection and overreaction.
"If success everywhere he goes" looks like this :
23 seasons.
1 Stanley Cup
9 missed playoffs
Only made ECF 2 other times, rest was 1st or 2nd round losses
Then success has a pretty low standard. To highlight, it took Ovechkin, Backstrom, Kusnetsov, Oshie and Carlson to win him a Stanley Cup in Washington. Hes either lost in the first 2 rounds or missed the playoffs in 20/23 seasons.
Thats a pretty low bar for success. Offense routinely suffers at the expense of defense under his system which bodes well for making playoffs but eventually runs thin when other teams start playing similar defense but find ways to score.
Our defense has now been atrocious under Quinn and Gallant and multiple different defensive assistant coaches. It may be a paying Trouba 8 million and using Hajek through multiple coaching regimes issue.
I for one and not on the Trotz train.