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Confirmed with Link: Jay Woodcroft and Dave Manson fired - no more Woody during NNN - Kris Knoblauch hired, Coffey as assistant

TopShelfGloveSide said:
How is one of the best players of all time not qualified to be an assistant coach… ex players get hired to be head coach / GM on less.
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Yeah, and usually it doesn’t take them 20 years post retirement.
McTedi said:
Seems like he has been on the fringes of this org for awhile. Again I don't particularly like the hire, this also seems like a change for the sake of making a change because the team sucks. Desperation typically spawns bad ideas. I'm not surprised by the Coffee hire, more surprised he wasn't hired for the coach position lol.
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you’re right. He has been on the fringes of the organization. He’s some bloodsucking leech.

This org is a f***ing tire fire and always had been.

The OBC will never let go of this team. They’ve already sucked it dry. Now they’re trying to crack open the bones to see if there is any marrow left.
 
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brentashton said:
Someone needs to

Not 1, but 2 learning coaches. Coffeys resume as a coach is pretty thin.

I do believe he has value as a consultant to the owner as he has some biz cred and was a HHOF player. But f*** off with the coaching assignment. That seems to be a joke. I guess he was willing to have his reputation sullied.
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Give him a chance our D has been terrible, he has a very low bar to clear.
rangersfansince08 said:
His strengths are he doesn't stifle offensive creativity. He's well liked. Some of his deployments in Hartford have been questionable. Playing seasoned plugs over genuine young talent for instance.
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Thanks! The offensive creativity part will definitely be well recepted here, hopefully he's better with the youngins than Woodcroft was.
 
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McShogun99 said:
Those who can do and those who can’t coach. Coffey never played an ounce of defence in his life so going by that analogy he might be the perfect person to fix our defence.
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Just have Knob override Coffey and tell the players to do the reverse of what Coffey is teaching and we should be set
 
McFlash97 said:
You needed a coach to kick the secondary players in the nuts and hold primary players accountable. They hired a minor leaguer who will slurp McDrais bxxx.
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I think that’s what Coffey is for (hold players accountable), there’s literally no reason to have him on the bench.
 
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Bryanbryoil said:
Give him a chance our D has been terrible, he has a very low bar to clear.

Thanks! The offensive creativity part will definitely be well recepted here, hopefully he's better with the youngins than Woodcroft was.
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honestly, even if its a nepo hire, if somehow our defense is magically better, who cares
 
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Wow, I expected Woody to go after an awfully coached series against Vegas and this year’s debacle, but sure didn’t expect this hire.

So we’re the Edmonton McOildavids now?
 
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Remember all the jokes about the “easiest job in hockey” being the backup goalie on a team with a Brodeur, Kiprusoff, Luongo, etc?

Turns out it’s actually being the goalie coach for the Edmonton Oilers. Not only do you never ever have to do anything (even the backups had to start a handful of games) but you also have zero accountability when the area you’re responsible for is also the teams biggest weakness for your entire employment duration.

Whatever “in” Schwartz has, has got to be huge, because this organization has made a lot of questionable moves that were pretty blatantly based on nepotism, but this one might be the most blatant of all.
 
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