Is your coach an idiot?
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Gaylord Q Tinkledink
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Yes, but analytics has nothing to do with it.
I don't know about other sports, but analytics don't exactly work the best for hockey. They certainly aid, but not sure they're as effective as they are in other sports.
I don't know about other sports, but analytics don't exactly work the best for hockey. They certainly aid, but not sure they're as effective as they are in other sports.
BackToTheBrierePatch
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OneSharpMarble
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You have to be insane to actually believe this. There would be trades on every team every day.
Alain Vigneault. That man made me stop watching hockey for some period of time.
Pavel Buchnevich
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Laviolette is starting to get on my nerves this season. Last season I thought he did a very good job.
This year he's fallen in love with a decent not great prospect (Mancini) who belongs in the AHL as our 6D because he's tall. He's getting caved. We can't move the puck. Zac Jones was supposed to get the 6D role this year, and Lavi won't keep him in the lineup. It's hard to think of any reason other than he's short. It's pathetic and needs to change. And we've had like 4-5 RHD in the lineup basically the full season. Playing dudes at LHD who don't have a clue how to play it. So damn idiotic. An unforced error for no apparent reason.
He's also screwing over Rempe's development. Like I get it if you don't think he's one of our best 12 forwards right now, but stop taking him in and out of the lineup and moving him up and down between NHL and AHL. And when he plays the fact that he gets like only 4-5 minutes per game, yet mediocre at best players like Brodzinski get 10 minutes or whatever, is just ridiculous and has no real logic to it. If you are only going to play him 4-5 minutes a game, you don't think hes good enough to play in the NHL. If so, keep him in the AHL until you think he can play a regular shift. We've wasted like a month already of his season with this stupid shit.
And then of course there's no accountability for Mika. We don't want to hurt his feelings. The forward lines are a lot easier to fix than Lavi's making them out to be. Move Mika down to 3C. Simple. You won't have to keep trying to find the fix next to Mika and Kreids if you move Mika off the line. His fix? Oh yeah, Mika can't score at even strength so we'll saturate him with our two best even strength forwards (Panarin and Lafreniere), and hope they can carry him to being more effective. I'm not optimistic this will change anything. Seems like no accountability for Mika and the team needs to suffer from it. I'd also be open to getting him off PP1 and putting Laf there, but of course that won't even be tried out for one PP by Lavi.
This year he's fallen in love with a decent not great prospect (Mancini) who belongs in the AHL as our 6D because he's tall. He's getting caved. We can't move the puck. Zac Jones was supposed to get the 6D role this year, and Lavi won't keep him in the lineup. It's hard to think of any reason other than he's short. It's pathetic and needs to change. And we've had like 4-5 RHD in the lineup basically the full season. Playing dudes at LHD who don't have a clue how to play it. So damn idiotic. An unforced error for no apparent reason.
He's also screwing over Rempe's development. Like I get it if you don't think he's one of our best 12 forwards right now, but stop taking him in and out of the lineup and moving him up and down between NHL and AHL. And when he plays the fact that he gets like only 4-5 minutes per game, yet mediocre at best players like Brodzinski get 10 minutes or whatever, is just ridiculous and has no real logic to it. If you are only going to play him 4-5 minutes a game, you don't think hes good enough to play in the NHL. If so, keep him in the AHL until you think he can play a regular shift. We've wasted like a month already of his season with this stupid shit.
And then of course there's no accountability for Mika. We don't want to hurt his feelings. The forward lines are a lot easier to fix than Lavi's making them out to be. Move Mika down to 3C. Simple. You won't have to keep trying to find the fix next to Mika and Kreids if you move Mika off the line. His fix? Oh yeah, Mika can't score at even strength so we'll saturate him with our two best even strength forwards (Panarin and Lafreniere), and hope they can carry him to being more effective. I'm not optimistic this will change anything. Seems like no accountability for Mika and the team needs to suffer from it. I'd also be open to getting him off PP1 and putting Laf there, but of course that won't even be tried out for one PP by Lavi.
Misery74
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As a Caps fan, I was wondering how long it would take for this post.
Lavi hockey is awful. Zero imagination.
None of us on the habs board think St Louis is an idiot, but it's clear he needs an experienced tactician to help him and he seems stubbornly unable to delegate. (his words)
He's also following in that HC tradition of falling in love with cooked vets by playing Armia on the PP for instance and overplaying Savard and Matheson at the expense of a very young, developing D-corps.
oh he also doesn't know how to use his time-outs or when to pull a goalie who's playing like shit
He's also following in that HC tradition of falling in love with cooked vets by playing Armia on the PP for instance and overplaying Savard and Matheson at the expense of a very young, developing D-corps.
oh he also doesn't know how to use his time-outs or when to pull a goalie who's playing like shit
Perfect Human
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Yes. He looks like Gru and thinks it’s cool to go by a nickname “newsey” as a 50+ yr old man
joestevens29
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Generally the people saying yes never played any hockey than mini sticks in their basement
Where are you coaching now?
Care to share your latest practice plan from this week?
WaitingForThatCab
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IMO, there is no idiot posting here, all more intelligent poster than NHL coach.
Alot of confident posters folks....
Alot of confident posters folks....
Bouboumaster
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No
St-Louis do take the odd decision here and there but he's a f***ing nuclear physicist/200 IQ when you compare him to either Michel Therrien or Dominic Ducharme
St-Louis do take the odd decision here and there but he's a f***ing nuclear physicist/200 IQ when you compare him to either Michel Therrien or Dominic Ducharme
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MacLean was literally the worst head coach in the entire history of hockey, has always been a horrible assistant coach, and probably would be unemployed right now if it weren't for Lou.
Even though he did get several assistant jobs from his buddies between his Devils and Islanders stints with Lou.
He's a complete and utter jackass.
These Are The Days
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Coop can be a real f***ing putz who makes really stupid choices in short, singular moments sometimes but I don't think he is an idiot. It just comes with the job
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RipsADrive
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Knoblauch comes across as quite smart to me and often when he makes moves that I doubt, he ends up getting good results. For a rookie coach I knew nothing about at first I've been very impressed.
Like every Oilers coach of this era though, he's started pushing the McDavid Draisaitl button more and more often despite it having diminishing returns and it hurting the team in the long run.
Silver lining of the McDavid injury is that that option isn't there for awhile and they'll have to remember how to win without him. (Or they won't, in which case we're screwed regardless.)
Like every Oilers coach of this era though, he's started pushing the McDavid Draisaitl button more and more often despite it having diminishing returns and it hurting the team in the long run.
Silver lining of the McDavid injury is that that option isn't there for awhile and they'll have to remember how to win without him. (Or they won't, in which case we're screwed regardless.)
