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How much more rope does Dean Evason have with Minnesota?

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Hockeyfan2390

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After today's loss against Detroit, the Wild have dropped 7 straight games and are in 7th place in the division. That, combined with 3 straight 1st round losses under Dean Evason, should equal a ticking time clock on his time behind the Wild bench, would it not?
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They are playing injured are they not? Not reason to go overboard.
 
I’d prefer to see Guerin and Evason go together. Their entire ridiculous bullshit grit first dinosaur brained idiocy is mind numbing. They have no place in this league.
 
Realm said:
The same they had last year when getting over 100 points.


No, They are one of the healthiest teams in the league right now.
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huh i could have sworn, but you are right, not a good look on him then
 
Realm said:
The same they had last year when getting over 100 points.


No, They are one of the healthiest teams in the league right now.
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Ok, management expecting a coach to take a $68m roster past a bunch of coaches with $83m rosters seems pretty unreasonable to me. But I guess they can use whatever benchmarks they want.
 
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Probably still has some to use

Unless your in Edmonton coaches are getting longer leashes these days
 
Mr Kot said:
huh i could have sworn, but you are right, not a good look on him then
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This is literally the first game they have had a healthy roster.

Edit, and healthy belongs in quotations, Kaprizov and Boldy have been the rosters biggest problems outside of the slew of not NHL level defensemen that have already left the team.
 
He and Guerin can both go, and Leipold can follow shortly after
 
They're going to be even worse next year.. Whoever thinks firing coaches/managers right now would somehow make any change for the better are living in LaLa Land.

Wild are going to to suck majorly for the next 2 seasons at least...

But like someone else said.. rather be in basement for a couple years and get a chance at some good picks - orr.. keep being the Minnesota Mediocre and win a couple playoff games every season
 
PAZ said:
Let's be honest, the Wild have no actual chance of winning the cup with the dead cap.

Would you rather get a top 5 pick or a 1st round exit?
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Owners would say the 2 home playoff games.
 
The problem is even when Suter and Parise's contracts come off the books, Guerin has further handcuffed the club by offering every player NMC's. The unnecessary extensions he handed out way too early (Foligno, Zuccarello, Hartman) should be reason enough to fire him. He is so obsessed with toughness and cheerleaders in the room instead of caring about skill. Foligno sucked last year. Maybe wait and see if a contract year will motivate him to be better this season. Nope. Can't have that. We need his leadership! So let's throw an insanely pathetic contract at him, which will no doubt end in a buyout down the road.

He desperately wanted to keep Reaves for his lockerroom leadership that it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he did something stupid to bring him back.

It's all about "his" kind of guys. It says a lot that Foligno has an A instead of Ek who works his butt off every night.
 
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PAZ said:
Let's be honest, the Wild have no actual chance of winning the cup with the dead cap.

Would you rather get a top 5 pick or a 1st round exit?
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The Owner doesnt want a rebuild, nobody elses opinion matters.
 
This is a tough situation, because on the one hand I want the Wild to keep losing and I think the "new coach effect" could ruin their draft position. On the other hand, I've wanted a different coach than Evason since about the day he was hired. But if the Wild continue to do poorly and don't fire him? I'm going to have to assume they never will, and that's the worst possible conclusion.
 
BagHead said:
This is a tough situation, because on the one hand I want the Wild to keep losing and I think the "new coach effect" could ruin their draft position. On the other hand, I've wanted a different coach than Evason since about the day he was hired. But if the Wild continue to do poorly and don't fire him? I'm going to have to assume they never will, and that's the worst possible conclusion.
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Never understood how he got a job in the NHL, we were happy as heck to get him out of Milwaukee.
 
Armourboy said:
Never understood how he got a job in the NHL, we were happy as heck to get him out of Milwaukee.
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He was originally hired as one of Boudreau's assistants when Boudreau was here. I assumed it was because of the familiarity from Washington, but I don't know. But Guerin obviously really likes him. They see eye to eye on a lot of philosophy stuff. Like they're both big on grit and toughness before anything else, leadership and character, and neither really have a lot of patience for young guys to grow.
 
AKL said:
He was originally hired as one of Boudreau's assistants when Boudreau was here. I assumed it was because of the familiarity from Washington, but I don't know. But Guerin obviously really likes him. They see eye to eye on a lot of philosophy stuff. Like they're both big on grit and toughness before anything else, leadership and character, and neither really have a lot of patience for young guys to grow.
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Which is the crazy part of the whole thing, because Guerin came in wanting to get rid of all the old guys, and Evason had been considered a developmental coach.
 
BagHead said:
Which is the crazy part of the whole thing, because Guerin came in wanting to get rid of all the old guys, and Evason had been considered a developmental coach.
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Yeah it's been a complete 180 from when Guerin started to now. 'Youth, speed, accountability, no more country club' to 'Foligno 4x4 with a full NMC' in record time. I think 2021-22 happened and they convinced themselves this team was ahead of schedule and didn't need the transition they originally thought.
 
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