TopShelfGloveSide
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Slagging a guy for owning a business after retiring is next level reaching to whine.
Confirmed with Link: Jay Woodcroft and Dave Manson fired - no more Woody during NNN - Kris Knoblauch hired, Coffey as assistant
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booyakasha
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seeing Oilers fans lose their collective shit over this on X, is wild.
some of the stuff being said is nuts...pretty much putting the whole "one of the smartest hockey fan bases" to bed.
some of the stuff being said is nuts...pretty much putting the whole "one of the smartest hockey fan bases" to bed.
As the head coach he probably had a responsibility to shut down the "cup or bust" talk from the players before the season. Looking back at it, no one on this team had any business talking about a cup. They took it for granted. A good coach should have shut that shit down immediately.
Misleading. AHL canceled the season//playoffs in two of the 4 years he Coached there.
He's basically 1 playoff miss and 1 time in, on a team that is entirely dependent on the talent pool of the Rangers.
mkatcherin00
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That's it. His friend, who is the first diehard AHL fan I have heard of in my 40 years on this earth, is glad Knob is gone. Bad hire!
BIeucheeseWithWings
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You were waving pom poms for him. All the talk about power stance, etc. Its like you were in love with him. Really I don't recall anybody on the board being more enthused with Woody than you.
The guy always struck me as an arrogant ass. Some people around the league that feel that way too.
The McDavid era will end at some point. You can't run an organization professionally like that, man. If they had done their jobs properly, they would have drafted and developed players who would contribute within 2-3 years, like other organizations find. They could have used cap savings from having those said players pushing through the system to address goaltending and D. They wouldn't have to rely on those two to produce all the offence. You'd surround them with other players who make a difference, and share the burden of leadership.
Instead they're left with this shit show, and very likely nothing to show for it once the top two stars leave. They won't even get much to show for it in trade returns, because they don't have an astute GM or competent scouting staff to maximize whatever the return would be. Just incredible how utterly incompetent everyone in the front office has been, since they lucked into McDavid.
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TheNumber4
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So he was slightly better than the quote made it seem, but still not in Cooper or Bernard stratosphere
booyakasha
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T-Funk
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Its a quick and easy way to verbalize his lack of actual experience coaching. He probably makes good money doing it so I don't think he would feel bad about his job title.
Yeah because another offence first with no NHL experience coach with this D corps and goalies ... what could go wrong.
TheNumber4
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Okay reading up more, this probably is a Jackson decision more so than a Kenny decision. So atleast there’s that. I’d rather it be Jackson than Kenny.
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I jumped aboard the Woody train as 95% of the board did after he started winning … a lot.
That wasn’t my initial reaction and I’ve criticized him plenty since, but that part is ignored because people can't believe that a poster can have nuanced opinions that aren’t extremely polar one way or the other.
Love how you think you’re special or smart because you have a different opinion.
Do you know a thing or two about winning also?
Jumptheshark
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Everything the oilers are doing is to make McJesus happy--my concern is now Leon
McDrai
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I think Jackson made the decision based on getting McDavid to stay here longer. Can’t blame him either as his job is dependant on McDavid staying.
PuckG
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He has the best record in Oilers history as a coach. The first priority, given the start this year, is to rack up as many wins as you can to hopefully make the playoffs. That means you play the best players we have.
The reality is almost every player on the team needed a wake up call. When you’re hemmed in like he was, what other choice do you have but to play his best options? The depth wasn’t stepping up anyways.
Everyone knows they aren’t as bad as their record is. Allowing for some regression to the mean would have made sense.
rboomercat90
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Yep, we’ve always known this organization is a bunch of dicks.
KeithIsActuallyBad
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mkatcherin00
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One thing I liked about a particular quote Coffey once said was about moving the puck up the ice. He said he would get so frustrated watching guys keep turning back into their own zone instead of pushing pace and moving the puck forward quickly.
TopShelfGloveSide
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Being a top 20 player of all time is no resume? Don’t make me laugh.
If Crosby retires and wants to coach you think he will have to go coach peewee hockey to have a good enough resume?
