Confirmed with Link: Jeff Blashill named Blackhawks Head Coach

[CallMeShaft]

For those interested, the press conference for Blashill's hiring will take place on Tuesday at 1pm CDT.

So don't worry about it f***ing up your long weekend.

 

[Kevin Musto]

I wonder if Blashill can rejuvenate Bertuzzi

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Play the kids. That’s all I ask.

 

[MicronMega]

Blashill
Sorensen
Peca
Vellucci
Waite

I don't mind the staff at all. It looks like a great mixture of modern coaching, ex-players and a veteran coach.

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Blashill
Sorensen
Peca
Vellucci
Waite

I don't mind the staff at all. It looks like a great mixture of modern coaching, ex-players and a veteran coach.

Hawks are. Development team, and Sorensen and Blashill have both been praised for their development. Not glamorous, but it fits with where the Hawks are currently at.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Report says he's Blashill's assistant

I don't mind it, the younger players seem to like him, would've just made him FT HC for the year but whatever I guess

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Nope

I am pointing out you guys have different standard for Cooper you didn't have for Q

If Blashill is amazing hire because Cooper hired him, Why was Kompon not great? I mean Kompon has now won 3 stanley cups for 3 great coaches, surely he is not as terrible as people here claim/claimed thur years

I can't believe you are this dense.

 

[Mrfenn92]

For those interested, the press conference for Blashill's hiring will take place on Tuesday at 1pm CDT.

So don't worry about it f***ing up your long weekend.

Still gonna f*** up my long weekend. Just dreaming about his responses to questions.

 

[JaegerDice]

I'm willing to be surprised, but this just seems like a lazy, unimaginative hire.

Also, I'm not sure what the rush is. For all we know Carolina might flame out in 4 and Rod could get the axe. Was there a lineup of teams dying to hire this guy? Why couldn't he be the fall-back after the dust settled?

Ah well.

 

[Mrfenn92]

I'm willing to be surprised, but this just seems like a lazy, unimaginative hire.

Also, I'm not sure what the rush is. For all we know Carolina might flame out in 4 and Rod could get the axe. Was there a lineup of teams dying to hire this guy? Why couldn't he be the fall-back after the dust settled?

Ah well.

Gonna guess Boston was sniffing hard

 

[JaegerDice]

Q hired Kompon and Kitchen

Dont recall such a goodwill towards Q's assistant coaches despite 3 cup wins

But yet Blashill is given thumbs up because Cooper hired him to be an assistant? Also being Assistant for good coach doesn't mean anything

Look at Matt Nagy for example in recent Chicago history

-- Kompon has won stanley cups under Sutter, Q and Maurice for record as Assistant, yet people here still trash him --

Cooper is a better coach than Q, though. So his assistant coaches are more likely to be better.

That said, I'm not thrilled with this hire.

 

[Hawkaholic]

For all we know Carolina might flame out in 4 and Rod could get the axe.

That's not happening.

Cooper is a better coach than Q, though.

Based off of what, exactly?

 

[JaegerDice]

That's not happening.


Based off of what, exactly?

A better winning percentage in the playoffs and the same number visits to the conference finals or better in fewer years, on top of winning the championship at every level he's coached, and being selected as his nation's coach for Team Canada, I could go on.

 

[Hawkaholic]

A better winning percentage in the playoffs and the same number visits to the conference finals or better in fewer years, on top of winning the championship at every level he's coached, and being selected as his nation's coach for Team Canada, I could go on.

lol, that doesn't make him better, in anyway.

 

[JaegerDice]

lol, that doesn't make him better, in anyway.

Winning more doesn't make a coach better?

What's your criteria? Best mustache?

I like Q's coaching style and system. He's terrible at roster management by virtue of his favoritism and unwillingness to adapt his system to the players he has. Cooper hasn't shown any of the same roster management issues, while still being able to coach a sustainably strong system.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Winning more doesn't make a coach better?

What's your criteria? Best mustache?

I wouldn't know who is better and I didn't make a claim as to who was better, because I didn't play for both coaches. Only time they went head to head was in 2015, and we know how that worked out. I would take the opinion of a player who played for both coaches with more certainty, over some guy looking at the stat sheet.

 

[JaegerDice]

I wouldn't know who is better and I didn't make a claim as to who was better, because I didn't play for both coaches. Only time they went head to head was in 2015, and we know how that worked out. I would take the opinion of a player who played for both coaches with more certainty, over some guy looking at the stat sheet.

That's incorrect. They went head to head when he was in Florida.

He lost in 6 in the first round. Jon Cooper took the Lighting to the Cup that year.

Then his trainee, Brunette, lost in four in the second round using his system after he was fired early in the season for the Kyle Beach situation. Jon Cooper took the Lightning to the Final again that season.

The only purpose of a coach is to win games. You can measure the value of a coach by how many games they win vs how many they lose, particularly playoff games and championships.

 

[Hawkaholic]

That's incorrect.

Are you drunk?

 

[JaegerDice]

Are you drunk?

Did you read my response?

2015 was NOT the only time they went head to head.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Did you read my response?

The only time they went head to head was not 2015.

lol try again

 

[Hawkaholic]

The only purpose of a coach is to win games. You can measure the value of a coach by how many games they win vs how many they lose, particularly playoff games and championships.

Cups
Q=3, Cooper = 2

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Are you drunk?

Are you?

 

[Hawkaholic]

Are you?

Nope.

 

[JaegerDice]

Cups
Q=3, Cooper = 2

Can't argue with that. Give Cooper time. He's only been in the league half as many years as Q and already has a better win%.

lol try again

Ok, I'm confused. It's a simple fact that Q lost to Cooper when Florida met Tampa in 2021.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Can't argue with that. Give Cooper time. He's only been in the league half as many years as Q and already has a better win%.



Ok, I'm confused. It's a simple fact that Q lost to Cooper when Florida met Tampa in 2021.

Who was the coach in the 2015 Cup Final for Chicago?
Who was the coach in the 2015 Cup Final for Tampa Bay?