Is your coach an idiot?

[SnowblindNYR]

I'm pretty confident that the most backwards league in the world is the NHL. Every other league has embraced analytics and instead the coaches and management in the NHL embrace hockey mythology that toughness without being actually good is more important than being good. I'm watching a bum ass coach destroy what looked like might be a special team because he's trying to play a try hard bum in the top pairing because he looks gritty and tough. And considering this bum ass coach has been to three finals it makes me wonder how pathetic coaching is in this league. I guess every coach is an idiot. So is my hypothesis correct are all team's coaches idiots?

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[Invalid cuz QoC]

Yes

 

[Mr Kot]

yeah

 

[norrisnick]

Massive.

 

[Breakers]

When Travis Green was our coach absolutely

Guy is one of the dumbest coaches in history.

 

[LevelingSolo]

I'm pretty confident that the most backwards league in the world is the NHL. Every other league has embraced analytics and instead the coaches and management in the NHL embrace hockey mythology that toughness without being actually good is more important than being good. I'm watching a bum ass coach destroy what looked like might be a special team because he's trying to play a try hard bum in the top pairing because he looks gritty and tough. And considering this bum ass coach has been to three finals it makes me wonder how pathetic coaching is in this league. I guess every coach is an idiot. So is my hypothesis correct are all team's coaches idiots?

Peter Laviolette?

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Peter Laviolette?

Yep. I can't believe this guy had the success he's had in the league. Leads me to believe all NHL coaches are idiots.

 

[57special]

bum ass

 

[Soundgarden]

Yes we're almost last place and he keeps benching our better young players for scrubs.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Yes. I could easily do a better job.

*eats dorito*

 

[HisIceness]

No, but I get annoyed when he does things like put Jordan Martinook on the first line. I also have a love/hate relationship with his staff.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Yes. I could easily do a better job.

*eats dorito*

We don't have to be able to do every aspect of the job better than the coach. But I feel like if you are not stubbornly obsessed with NHL mythology around grittiness and know how to read xGF% you're already ahead of coaches in the NHL in at least some aspects.

 

[Pens x]

I honestly dont know if Mike Sullivan can read.

 

[Xirik]

Yes. I could easily do a better job.

*eats dorito*

no fedora today?

 

[12ozPapa]

Most HF users could coach/manage better than most coaches/GMs, and yes, I’m serious

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Most HF users could coach/manage better than most coaches/GMs, and yes, I’m serious

Honestly, all it'll take is not being stubborn. In other sports coaches follow analytics and try to do the best job that they can. In the NHL it's all about grittiness and toughness. I'm convinced that the NHL has the dumbest fans of any sport. They don't watch to win, they watch so players can beat up on each other. And coaches are not far from that.

 

[Ceremony]

Aren't they all?

 

[HockeyVirus]

Most HF users could coach/manage better than most coaches/GMs, and yes, I’m serious

Whatever you say. They'd be blowing up teams based on 5 game sample sizes.

 

[benfranklin]

Nope

 

[Some Other Flame]

Probably yeah

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

Flyers PP coach has to be the worst in the NHL...

 

[Suntouchable13]

Not yet, but I feel like the become idiots over time. Randy Carlyle, then Mike Babcock, then Sheldon Keefe, all turned to idiots. The only one I wouldn't say became one is Pat Quinn, I have lots of respect for the big Irishman. I would never call him an idiot.

 

[Jay26]

When Travis Green was our coach absolutely

Guy is one of the dumbest coaches in history.

Willie D was a bigger idiot than Green. No question.

Nice guy though.

 

[John Price]

nope he brings a youthful energy

 

[Breakers]

Willie D was a bigger idiot than Green. No question.

Nice guy though.

I disagree, green was record breaking bad

When Tanev left he even said it felt good to have a normal practice