Confirmed with Link: Mike Bales resigns as goaltending coach
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cptjeff
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Lempo
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HisIceness
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Interesting. I get why Steve Smith went to Buffalo last year as he had an opportunity to coach the next Nik Lidstrom.
This one I'm not sure, but best of luck to him there
Boom Boom Apathy
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He has ties to the Sabre's GM from their time in Pittsburgh together.
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Unsustainable
Seth Jarvis has Big Kahunas
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Seems like he'd be good at coaching smaller goalies, but who knows?
Unsustainable
Seth Jarvis has Big Kahunas
He was a GC before, has history, checks the Canes boxes.
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I don't know that he's actually super happy with that history and the way it ended.
Sign Ward for 1 year (as a 3rd NHL goalie) to be a mentor to and offer an insurance policy for Nedeljkovic. Transition him to an official coaching staff position the following season.
IIRC Bales' departure from Pittsburgh was also weird, abrupt, and oddly timed. so maybe it's just a thing with this guy. maybe he's forthright with management about his professional goals and has the respect with his colleagues to be granted amicable severance of his contract. orrr, maybe something nefarious is afoot. but the former seems like the more likely scenario.
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Well ****. That's too bad, he did a great job handling two very different goalies.
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Ward is a bit of a weird case of bad metrics, good record the last 2 years.
2017/18: 41 games of Cam Ward - Canes won at a 100 point pace. 41 games of Scott Darling - Canes won at a 66 point pace: SV% .906
2018/19: 32 games of Cam Ward - Hawks won at a 92 point pace. 37 games of Crawford - Hawks won at a 73 point pace: SV% .897
EDIT: That said, I think we've moved on from Ward and should probably stay moved on.
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Boom Boom Apathy
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Looking more and more like he's headed to Buffalo. If so, they have Krueger (ex Canes scout), Smith (ex. D coach), Bales (ex Goalie coach) and there are some rumblings they have interest in Vellucci as an assistant...though not sure how valid those rumblings are.
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Ew, no. I'll take Tokarski over Ward for insurance, and that's not saying much. If he wants to get into coaching, cool I guess. He can start with Charlotte.
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Stockpiling coaches who were a part of the 'systemic acceptance of mediocrity', as Brindy pretty much put it with CanesCountry last week doesn't worry me. More power to them, actually. Especially now that they've signed Skinner as long as they have.
We'll be fine. Only one who may hurt is Vellucci, but he needed an opportunity to grow his resume, and he was probably blocked from doing that here.
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Evidently, Skinner had his supporters among the previous regime. I didn't know losing him was going to lead to a mass exodus of coaches, and definitely didn't see the goalie coach being part of it.
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Buy out Scott Darling, then sign him as Goalie coach.
Boom Boom Apathy
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I really don't see it that way.
- Brindy said he wanted Smith to stay, but Smith chose to leave. Saying he was part of the systematic acceptance of mediocrity would be like saying RBA was.
- Krueger was a scout here AGES ago, so can't lump him into that category
- Bales was only here for 2 years and was part of the turn-around so can't lump him into that category
- Vellucci clearly can't be lumped into that category.
I'm not sweating losing Smith (clearly) and Bales, but Brindy relied heavily on Bales.
Exactly this @Boom Boom Apathy . Otherwise I wouldn't be able to comment on Bleed's post and ream him for being such a negative nelly/conspiracy theory monger.
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Obviously moving to the only team where it's guaranteed that Skinner won't light his goalies up.
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Hey!Exactly this @Boom Boom Apathy . Otherwise I wouldn't be able to comment on Bleed's post and ream him for being such a negative nelly/conspiracy theory monger.
I prefer negative Nancy. Nelly was that bitch from Little House on the Prairie, and I wanted a house to fall on her.
And Bales probably would get more money in Buffalo! He just did a kick ass job on a team seemingly on the up and he just quit, Rita Skeeter would be all over this. The off season is all about the soap opera, and I love this shit.
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Mrazek kinda has his own style that's very unorthodox.
Word is that he absolutely trusts his own style and is not open to suggestions or changes
That's probably not what you wanna hear as a goalie coach
Word is that he absolutely trusts his own style and is not open to suggestions or changes
That's probably not what you wanna hear as a goalie coach
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I hope that Mrazek demands his own goalie coach, and it turns out to be an old Czech fortune teller woman with like three teeth.
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