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

[CantHaveTkachev]

Apparently not since everyone has regressed hard including the goalie that Holland signed.

yes, cause everyone saw that regression coming

 

[brentashton]

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.

I don’t see him as a solution to salvaging the season as a coach. We can agree to disagree. Nothing will change my mind on hiring Coffey as a NHL coach. Consultant? Sure. Coach? Not a chance.

Here’s his CV from Elite Prospects. I guess some are giving more weight to that run as coach for the U15 team 10 years ago. Joke.

 

[BlackDogg]

 

[russ99]

A panic move based on a 14 game sample where the analytics prove that the team hasn’t given up on Woody. Holland scrambling to save his own ass, looking for trades, making demotions, and in all that time I’m supposed to believe he did an extensive and effective search for a coach and what he came up with was TWO former Oilers? One of which is already with the organization and has never coached a day in his life, the other another Decent AHL coach ala Woody with zero championship pedigree unlike confirmed good hires in Bednar and Cooper.

Holland better have atleast read the room when he made this firing. He better have atleast confirmed the players wanted this. Canning a coach McDrai like could be a nail in the coffin of the McDrai era as much as keeping Woody and seeing what happens. Somehow I doubt Holland did this, the lazy f***.

21 game sample, that Vegas series was a coaching disaster, Cassidy coached circles around Woodcroft and that was why there were doubts going into the season.

Do you really think Holland has a lick to do with this? Knoblauch is all Jackson and Coffey is all Katz.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

So, are we all agreed... If the new guy starts losing HFOil isn't allowed to start calling him "Knob+lick" until at least 2024. Let's at least give him a chance before we pull that one out.

f*** that. He gets a week.

 

[Duder54]

The more I think about this coaching change, the worse it seems. I actually think I’ll be taking a bit of an Oilers break for the next while - the people in charge of this team have officially lost me.

 

[TheNumber4]

21 game sample, that Vegas series was a coaching disaster, Cassidy coached circles around Woodcroft and that was why there were doubts going into the season.

Do you really think Holland has a lick to do with this? Knoblauch is all Jackson and Coffey is all Katz.

Sounding like it. Haven’t read all the stuff surrounding these hires yet.

Cassidy out coaches every coach he was put up against. The Oilers weren’t built to beat the Knights woody or not.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

yes, cause everyone saw that regression coming

Jack Campbell continuing to suck wasn’t exactly a huge stretch.

 

[mkatcherin00]

This is bullshit. Last night was the type of win that could very well get the team back on the rails. Colour me surprised if the replacement is anywhere near as good as the coach with the best winning percentage in franchise history. Hope in wrong.

Once Drai and 97 go Lemiuex like again and the PP is historic, yes, the new coach probably will have a nice win % too

 

[Shizuka]

OBC forever. What a bunch of clowns. Just can't let go of the success that is now 30-40 years past. Many fans of the team now were not even born. The game is completely different. Im so sick of this. I just dont understand why the people running this team are so bad at it.

That shit show originates and flows from the owner. That guy just loves being one of 'the boys on the bus', and has surrounded himself with the OBC living out his his hockey fantasies vicariously through their experience. These washed up clowns whisper in his ear about how to do things, with almost NO f***ing practical, real world experience either in management or coaching, when the f***ing game and players have changed over the course of 4 f***ing decades.. yet they continue to think they can recreate their 80s offensive glory and still win a cup on that. They don't even have the 'meh, I'll try and make a save' Fuhr type in net to occasionally show up.

 

[russ99]

If our Corsi tanks whilst we continue losing this organization has just killed the McDavid era.

They better hope and pray Knoblauch comes in and team goes 10-0. This Hail Mary hire has to connect or this shit show is DONE.

Screw Corsi, win games with a team effort, so sick of this outshooting and outscoring to push regular season scoring that goes nowhere and wins nothing in the postseason.

Would be nice if our meatball fans would get over this dream of an 80s Oilers style juggernaut, it’s detrimental to eventual team success.

 

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[CupofOil]

Lol, you really think Holland had anything to do with this? He doesn’t have any more control of this team today than you or I do.

I kind of wish Holland was still in charge. I think he would have hired Sutter who is exactly what the Oilers need in the short term.

 

[McIce Whole]

I don’t see him as a solution to salvaging the season as a coach. We can agree to disagree. Nothing will change my mind on hiring Coffey as a NHL coach. Consultant? Sure. Coach? Not a chance.

Here’s his CV from Elite Prospects. I guess some are giving more weight to that run as coach for the U15 team 10 years ago. Joke.

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I do agree with you but the reality is when you’re as accomplished as Coffey is, you have a little bit more leeway. He doesn’t need to go through the ringers and work his way up from the minors to land an assistant coaching position.

I do wish he had some experience but I get it at the same time. I don’t agree with it but we’ll see how it goes now. Maybe for once it’ll work.

 

[Shathar]

Is that George McFly?

Biff, you get your damn hands off him!

 

[TheNumber4]

Screw Corsi, win games with a team effort, so sick of this outshooting and outscoring to push regular season scoring that goes nowhere and wins nothing in the postseason.

Would be nice if our meatball fans would get over this dream of an 80s Oilers style juggernaut, it’s detrimental to eventual team success.

It takes team effort to win Corsi. You don’t out shoot and out chance by the margins we are seeing by not putting in effort. We aren’t losing cause we’re mailing it in and being lazy. We’re losing cause we are make glaring mistakes whilst getting League worst goaltending whilst the offensive execution and confidence has gone into a deep dry spell. Lots of things that may not be on the coaching.

 

[mkatcherin00]

Over a decade of firing coaches for organizational mistakes. I guess this shouldn’t be any shock that another coaches head rolls instead of the decision makers above.

Let’s acknowledge that Woody - in his first 100 games - took a flawed roster and was only knocked out by the most recent two SC champs.

Where did he take the roster once his top 2 guys stopped putting up this generations historic #'s and a historic PP? How about the Backend #'s regressing? Players looking confused.

Why did this coach show ZERO accountability to players who clearly needed wakeup calls within a game? With every former player/analyst saying the same thing

 

[fresh meat]

I kind of wish Holland was still in charge. I think he would have hired Sutter who is exactly what the Oilers need in the short term.

Do you want Connor and Drai not to re-sign? Because hiring Sutter will make them leave.

 

[Lay Z Boy GM]

Do you want Connor and Drai not to re-sign? Because hiring Sutter will make them leave.

Losing is the #1 thing that will make them leave

 

[mkatcherin00]

This is one of the most confusing moves I've ever seen. We win in a decisive manner, and we fire Woody, then hire McDavid's old coach...uhhh WHAT?

So 1 good win erases everything else?

 

[3IR]

I do agree with you but the reality is when you’re as accomplished as Coffey is, you have a little bit more leeway. He doesn’t need to go through the ringers and work his way up from the minors to land an assistant coaching position.

I do wish he had some experience but I get it at the same time. I don’t agree with it but we’ll see how it goes now. Maybe for once it’ll work.

It’s so depressing that 9 years into Mcdavid and Drai, we still have to say shit like this. How is this organization so bad at just making anything work for once.

 

[TheNumber4]

Do you want Connor and Drai not to re-sign? Because hiring Sutter will make them leave.

Losing will also make them leave.

 

[CrazyJoeDavola]

Well guys, it was meant to be, right?

We've gone from Tipp, to Woody, to Knob.

 

[PaPaDee]

Meh, won’t make much of a difference.

 

[mkatcherin00]

What knoblach been doing since coaching Connor in eerie? I thought he wasn’t that special of a coach, just had some crazy talent. I mean they didn’t win a mem cup in Eerie even with Connor.

I hope he’s good, but I’m tired of hoping for no logical reason

He almost got hired in NY and has been their AHL coach for years