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The players will be kept in cages within the bowels of PNC Arena and must play well if they want to see sunlight and breathe free air.They are doing the Canes season preview on the NHL Network right now. They interviewed Rod as part of the preview.
I was not very impressed with his answers on how to fix some of the most glaring problems: scoring, goaltending, overtime. Basically...try harder.
They are doing the Canes season preview on the NHL Network right now. They interviewed Rod as part of the preview.
I was not very impressed with his answers on how to fix some of the most glaring problems: scoring, goaltending, overtime. Basically...try harder.
So be it.The players will be kept in cages within the bowels of PNC Arena and must play well if they want to see sunlight and breathe free air.
Well, they've narrowed down the goal songs to 8, and... ooof.
Goal Song Fan Vote
Go vote for whatever garbage song you can stand.
(It's basically got to be the Petey Pablo, IMHO. It's the only option that doesn't suck.)
Yes.There’s a whole other thread on this started a day or 2 ago . Age catching up with you Hank?
Yes.
They just need to put a gym in the locker room. They’ll get the messa-That’s been my concern with RBA as coach. He’s very well respected and for good reason. The boys love him because he’s a “players coach” and cares about them.
Does he know how to coach? Can he x’s and o’s it up when he has to? Like minja said it can’t be all..... “try harder, I did”. Practice and game work level expectations are great but it takes more than that. I get giving him a chance but it’s always been painful listening to him speak when they interview him during the games. Not a cerebral approach.
“We gotta work harder.....you know?”
No way they don’t give him the full year. His number is hanging in the rafters. If he were some rookie head coach with no attachment to the organization, maybe he get pulled early if things start badly. Maybe.Well if things go badly with Rod we may see Velluci quick like.
"Teuvo, stop crawling on the damn ice!"Bill Peters was apparently lauded as a good (if not brilliant) X's and O's type of guy and that didn't seem to do much (other than fancy stats), so perhaps Brindy can motivate them to succeed a la Reggie Dunlop:
"All right, let's show 'em what we got, guys! Get out there on the ice and let 'em know you're there. Get that f***in' stick in their side. Let 'em know you're there!"
What worries me is the game-management aspect. Matching lines isn’t easy when you’re up against a Babcock or Gallant. Balancing out all the little competing factors to make every decision is flat-out difficult even for very experienced coaches. And there’s a soft science to getting good chemistry out of your players. Knowing when to give up on a line, getting buy-in from guys who are having their ice time cut, knowing when to give a rookie his shot, that kind of stuff. For someone who’s never been on the hot seat before, all we can do is just pray that he’s naturally good at it.
Can he x’s and o’s it up when he has to? Like minja said it can’t be all..... “try harder, I did”.
For someone who’s never been on the hot seat before, all we can do is just pray that he’s naturally good at it.
I didn’t say it right then. To me game management is part of the x’s and o’s - it’s the total package. The ability to notice something going wrong and knowing what to do to fix it. Whether that be switching lines around to adapt to a weakness being exploited as well as having say the rw’s drop back in certain situations to change their coverage areas so they can - adapt to a weakness being exploited.I’m not quite so worried about Rod as an X’s and O’s guy. For one thing, I think we overestimate how much that stuff really impacts an NHL team. In the grind of the season there aren’t dramatic changes in strategy from night to night, and in-game changes seem to be largely a myth we make up as fans. And I think Rod’s been around the game and around coaches enough to know it by now. He’s run the PP, he played a ton of PK in his day. There’s no reason he should have issues with that part of the game if he’s an intelligent hockey mind.
What worries me is the game-management aspect. Matching lines isn’t easy when you’re up against a Babcock or Gallant. Balancing out all the little competing factors to make every decision is flat-out difficult even for very experienced coaches. And there’s a soft science to getting good chemistry out of your players. Knowing when to give up on a line, getting buy-in from guys who are having their ice time cut, knowing when to give a rookie his shot, that kind of stuff. For someone who’s never been on the hot seat before, all we can do is just pray that he’s naturally good at it.
Peters needed better horses to go further than we had. RF couldn’t find better horses, like many gm’s including our current one struggle with. Peters message maybe grew stale on players that couldn’t or wouldn’t step up to a higher level.Bill Peters was apparently lauded as a good (if not brilliant) X's and O's type of guy and that didn't seem to do much (other than fancy stats), so perhaps Brindy can motivate them to succeed a la Reggie Dunlop:
"All right, let's show 'em what we got, guys! Get out there on the ice and let 'em know you're there. Get that f***in' stick in their side. Let 'em know you're there!"
Peters IS a very good technical coach.
Based on what data?