Man PDB right coach wrong time here. Sigh
I'm still not sure he'd be the right coach here as of 2024, but he probably would be by 2026 or hopefully even by 2025.
Most of his teams (other than Florida, his first job) were already perennial playoff teams and not only that, but also contending teams.
The Devils were a perennial playoff team coming off their first playoff miss in like 15 years before he took over.
The Sharks were in a very similar situation when he took over there. Over a decade straight of making the playoffs before missing the year before they hired him. Both us and the Sharks made the SCF in his first year here after the lone playoff miss. Only the Devils lone playoff miss would start to become the norm after one last playoff appearance/cup finals run. The Sharks still had a few more years left.
Vegas was only 1.5 years removed from a cup finals and were a constant in the conference finals both before and after he took over, until missing the playoffs.
The Stars were a perennial playoff when he took over and even made the cup finals 2 years prior.
All of his teams (Save for Florida) had/have veteran players just a little bit older than ours. Our best players are slightly younger than the best players of his other teams at the time he took over. His current team has a lot of older players, but their younger players have certainly been their best.
His teams best players when he takes over are usually in their late 20s (Kovalchuk/Parise), if not already in their 30s (Pavelski/Burns/Thornton). Our best players are currently in their mid 20s and younger.
The pattern with his teams when he's taken over are that they're already established, perennial playoff teams, if not already contending teams. We're not that yet, as we are not a perennial playoff team, nor contender because we don't make the playoffs annually yet. Hopefully that will be the case in two years from now.