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Chevy-slow and steady wins the race!
Maurice-finally has a good roster to work with?!
Maurice-finally has a good roster to work with?!
Did someone hack your account and start this thread?
Never had a problem with it, but the race hasn't even started yet. Halfway to the starting line.wins the race!
Sheer craziness when Sip starts a thread like this. I rate Chevy in the upper half of GMs at this point; could jump substantially if he negotiates wisely with Trouba, Laine, Helly etc. Still rate Maurice in the lower half of coaches, because onyone can look good when you have the skill he has at his disposal & an all-star goalie. If he can keep this group on track & they win a couple rounds, he'll jump substantially for me.Chevy-slow and steady wins the race!
Maurice-finally has a good roster to work with?!
It could also be Llamageddon
Skill and good goaltending tend to make good coaches, good coaches.Sheer craziness when Sip starts a thread like this. I rate Chevy in the upper half of GMs at this point; could jump substantially if he negotiates wisely with Trouba, Laine, Helly etc. Still rate Maurice in the lower half of coaches, because onyone can look good when you have the skill he has at his disposal & an all-star goalie. If he can keep this group on track & they win a couple rounds, he'll jump substantially for me.
Skill and good goaltending tend to make good coaches, good coaches.
Maurice: When PoMo's extension was announced many on this board were shall I say "less then excited" to down right in a panic about this decision. While I was surprised by the extension because I thought this decision would be made after this season I had no real issue with it. After the PO's in 15 Jets management saw that PoMo got the best he could out of the old Atlanta core and it was never going to be enough to be a real contender in the NHL. The decision was made that it was time to go with younger, more skilled and faster players.
I don't think many appreciate the risk PoMo took to agree with this move to go much younger. There is a lot of risk when you put so many rookies on your team in a short period of time (two seasons). You can't shelter them and they will be exposed over and over again until they learn how to be good NHL vets. Also PoMo had to get the buy in from his vets like Wheeler, Buff, and Little who so far have had very little PO success and their window of opportunity is closing as they get older. They knew going younger could mean 1- 3 years of futility before the young guys will be ready to compete. This is not easy in todays NHL where star players make 3-6 time what the coach makes with full knowledge that if the team is bad it will be the coach that goes not them. These are the risks Maurice took to stay with the Jets with the full knowledge that if he doesn't succeed with the Jets his career as a NHL coach may be over for good.
Maurice has basically had 4 full years as the Jets coach. He seems to still have the respect of his player and more importantly his vets. This is true even though the team has zero playoff success so far. Most if not all the rookies and young guys (Scheif, Trouba and Lorwy) have developed nicely and are now some of the most important players the team has and this current version of the Jets is by far the best in 2.0 and maybe be the best ever. While Chevy absolutely deserves credit for stock pilling so much great talent it is Maurice that turn all these great individual skilled players in to a winning TEAM.
I know how Sip jinx’s work. Please delete this thread into oblivion!!!!