Player Discussion MSL finalist for coach of the year!

[BLONG7]

Impressive for all 3 guys!!

Congrats to all 3 guys..............MSL is the guy who has ALL the pressure.

Very deserving of the nomination.
Arniel will be the winner, but to be mentioned with those guys is great for Marty and the team......the players would all be so happy.

He is our guy, and he is progressing step by step as is his team.......it was a great season on most accounts...

 

[BLONG7]

Wait til the Bruins win the draft lottery on May 5th!

Congrats to MSL, well earned. The youngest team to ever make the playoffs doesn’t get there without him.

He is dialed in, to those motivational quotes, and the kids all have learned from him.

 

[BLONG7]

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I have some issues with MSL and his decisions, but there is an upside for sure......the results speak for themselves. He did not rely on a hall of fame goalie, the way most of our inept coaches did.

 

[Yep]

I foresee a continuation of a SERIOUS problem.

 

[Faterson]

Much deserved. He obviously won't win.

Should he win, that's almost a guaranteed firing within a couple of seasons or so. (See recent Jack Adams winners.) Which means that either Arniel or Carbery (or both) are going to lose their jobs pretty soon. If you blink, you miss it.

 

[Milhouse40]

I was under the impression that coaching was a serious problem....what happened???

 

[Runner77]

 

[26Mats]

I was under the impression that coaching was a serious problem....what happened???

It was. Then MSL made great adjustments.

 

[1909]

I am very very surprised. I would had placed him mid-pack at best among the 32 coaches. Exactly where his team finished in the standings.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Let's not forget many of our own fans would have replaced him this season...

Failing to see how this team has taken a huge step forward under his tutorship is mind-boggling

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Easy way to know which posters dont know much about hockey

 

[nhlfan9191]

This pretty much insures he’ll be fired next year.

 

[OldCraig71]

"It's an honor just to be nominated".

 

[Whitesnake]

Makes perfect sense. That was between him and Evason. Whoever was making the playoffs would have been nominated. Carbery wins though. Easily.

 

[Whitesnake]

I was under the impression that coaching was a serious problem....what happened???

While I don't think he was a problem, I like him, not a fan of man to man, but that's another story, isn't there enough proofs that this trophy is insanely overrated? How many are fired 2 or 3 years after winning it? And frankly, this trophy means ''Teams that surpassed OUR expectations...who is OUR? Well we are ''journalists'' who are often wrong on everything...''

 

[Mrb1p]

Brownie points for a young team. MSL is NOT a top 3 coach in this league, f*** outta here.

 

[themilosh]

Arniel, Carbery, St. Louis named Jack Adams Award finalists | NHL.com

Winnipeg, Washington, Montreal coaches are each 1st-time finalists

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We are a tough fanbase sometimes but honestly he's the captain of this ship and deserve the trophy.

We were projected to finish at the bottom of the conference this season and Marty is the main reason why this team made it.

especially considering the key injuries:
Laine, Dach, Guhle.

 

[NobleSix]

He still has a lot to learn but I think he's done an overall good job with what he's been given to work with so far.

Well deserved imo.

 

[themilosh]

While I don't think he was a problem, I like him, not a fan of man to man, but that's another story, isn't there enough proofs that this trophy is insanely overrated? How many are fired 2 or 3 years after winning it? And frankly, this trophy means ''Teams that surpassed OUR expectations...who is OUR? Well we are ''journalists'' who are often wrong on everything...''

i think certain coaches are perfect for specific timelines of a club.. MSL is perfect for a rebuilding club, a guy like Berube is perfect for getting softies to play playoff hockey. Torts is used for an FU (by management) to players (who cant be moved) - last option.

It will be interesting to see MSL evolve just as our players are becoming stars..

 

[themilosh]

Man, Vincent is 100% going to get poached by some NHL team.

which is why the Habs will have to pay PV an NHL salary.. and quite frankly they would be crazy to let him go, there is no cap on Management. What he has accomplished in Laval is next level (in 1 year). Imagine how much better they will become when we start giving legit prospects to him? Prospects will elect to play Laval (instead of Euro or NCAA) when players realize they are learning to become pros: be it with the Habs or to another NHL club (via trade). You can't achieve this with guys like Sly at the helm... We have a lot of draft picks in the next 2 years, and PV is making them better (improving their asset value) - this is massive currency for HUGO.

If the Habs become known as "the" place to get drafted and a pathway to an NHL career via Laval, it will solidify the big club for over a decade.

 

[morhilane]

While I don't think he was a problem, I like him, not a fan of man to man, but that's another story, isn't there enough proofs that this trophy is insanely overrated? How many are fired 2 or 3 years after winning it? And frankly, this trophy means ''Teams that surpassed OUR expectations...who is OUR? Well we are ''journalists'' who are often wrong on everything...''

3 years is the "normal" duration of a HC tenure. Or was the normal, now it seems to be 2..

But the last 3 winners....:
- 2024: Tocchet, ditched the Canucks a few days ago.
- 2023: Montgomery, was fired in early 2024-2025 season (was hired by the Blues and killed it there though)...Bruins still sucked after.
- 2022: Sutter, fired at the end of the 2022-2023 season

 

[Feanor]

I am very very surprised. I would had placed him mid-pack at best among the 32 coaches. Exactly where his team finished in the standings.

Without taking anything from MSL’s great achievement, Jack Adams has unfortunately very often awarded to the coaches of the teams that exceed the expectations the most as the difference is attributed to the coach.

Case in point, Cooper has never won the Trophy and Jacques Demers is the only one to win back-to-back and with the same team (in 86 and 87). You cannot convince me that the best coach changes from year to year so much more than the best player that practically no one is the best consistently.

 

[sampollock]

GOOD for MSL

 

[Guy Larose]

I was under the impression that coaching was a serious problem....what happened???

What happened? You listened to the usual HF bad takes from the usual shit posters.

 

[Miller Time]

No surprise.

Very well deserved recognition of the impressive coaching job MSL & his staff have done.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Should he win, that's almost a guaranteed firing within a couple of seasons or so. (See recent Jack Adams winners.) Which means that either Arniel or Carbery (or both) are going to lose their jobs pretty soon. If you blink, you miss it.

As it has been repeated often in the last few weeks, JA nominations and winners does not guarantee firing. NHL coaches have a very short shelf life. That's the actual correlation. Not the Jack Adams.