GDT: Game 5: Anaheim Ducks vs Los Angeles Kings, 5pm PT

[DucksFanDFW]

And yet, people want to keep Cronin around. He's worse than Eakins.

I'm pretty much on the "dump him in the LA River" wagon.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

And yet, people want to keep Cronin around. He's worse than Eakins.

Both are terrible

 

[ZegrassyKnoll]

Yes because he is a landlord and makes a return on that money with rent. You must be a renter

He is not a landlord he is a billionaire landlord. The difference between him hiring a guy off the street for $15/hour and the highest paid coach in the NHL is the equivalent of you or I deciding between spending $13 and $15 options at the car wash. Completely trivial.

 

[cheesymc]

MAKE SOME TRADES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VERBEEK

He still thinks it the off-season and is waiting to see if Marchy or Stamkos accepts his offer

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Can’t find my post from earlier, but I stand by what I said: someone better be getting fired or traded tomorrow after that garbage.

Except Dostal. He can stay

A trade won’t fix much

Firing Cronin is prob the play…. But who’s even available

 

[robbieboy3686]

That was very painful to watch. LaCombe had a rough one. Forecheck non-existent. Mintyukov was missed.

I joined late what is wrong with minty? Did they say?

 

[Deuce22]

I get that they want us to be defensively responsible but spending the game in your own zone isn’t the way.

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

There’s going to be a point in time where some of you are going to have to choose a side. Either we have some bad scouts and our young guys aren’t nearly as talented as we think they are, or Verbeek made an incredibly bad decision in hiring a terrible coach. Maybe hiring proven retread coaches isn’t as a bad an idea as some people might think.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

MAKE SOME TRADES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VERBEEK

I mean what kind of trades are going to help?

The issue is coaching based…. There is no structure, special teams suck, we can’t even accomplish line changes

 

[The Duck Knight]

A trade won’t fix much

Firing Cronin is prob the play…. But who’s even available

It doesn't even matter. His message is clearly not getting across. This honestly is looking like the end of RC v2. Just horrible effort and execution almost throughout the lineup.

 

[HanSolo]

well someone in the know needs to audit the teams flu situation and unless it’s really bad there needs to be some heavy scrutiny laid on cronin

After last season, scrutiny should have been on Cronin by default. We're well past scrutiny. Unless this team is all sick, this level of ineptitude is inexcusable and it comes down to coaching. You can say what you want about what level of ability our players have, training camp and our practices are supposed to get this team to at least a higher level of execution in all three zones than they were last year and somehow, incredulously, they look even worse.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

There’s going to be a point in time where some of you are going to have to choose a side. Either we have some bad scouts and our young guys aren’t nearly as talented as we think they are, or Verbeek made an incredibly bad decision in hiring a terrible coach. Maybe hiring proven retread coaches isn’t as a bad an idea as some people might think.

I think everyone is basically on the coaching wagon…. Everything wrong with the team is stuff the coaches tend to control

 

[ZegrassyKnoll]

I get that they want us to be defensively responsible but spending the game in your own zone isn’t the way.

Illness

 

[duckaroosky]

That was not even worth the troubleshooting I had to do to even watch the game.

 

[cheesymc]

He is not a landlord he is a billionaire landlord. The difference between him hiring a guy off the street for $15/hour and the highest paid coach in the NHL is the equivalent of you or I deciding between spending $13 and $15 options at the car wash. Completely trivial.

You underestimate how greedy some rich people are… he ain’t like Magic Johnson and the Dodgers ownership going for it every year. He’s that landlord that will raise your rent every year if he could to get every penny.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

It doesn't even matter. His message is clearly not getting across. This honestly is looking like the end of RC v2. Just horrible effort and execution almost throughout the lineup.

True, I meant it more literally like who can we bring in…. What are our options.

 

[ZegrassyKnoll]

That was not even worth the troubleshooting I had to do to even watch the game.

The team is also having trouble shooting

 

[ZegrasOwnsYou]

I want to give Dostal all the goalie head pats in the world.

That was next level bad tonight.

 

[DavidBL]

They need to change these lines around, they are absolutely atrocious.

 

[Dr Johnny Fever]

I think everyone is basically on the coaching wagon…. Everything wrong with the team is stuff the coaches tend to control

I don’t know about that. I keep reading that mistakes are the fault of the players committing them, not the fact that they’re lost playing for a coach who is in over his head.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

McGinn seems like a good candidate to move up the lineup?

 

[Arthuros]

Like...none of our offensive plays look deliberate. The puck just happens to go in sometimes on rushes, but that's it.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

They need to change these lines around, they are absolutely atrocious.

Rearrange seats on the titanic

Need something way more drastic than line changes

 

[Boo Boo]

We are going to get mctavish on a smoking hot second contract at least

 

[dracom]

So glad i missed this one