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Kovalev27 said:
What has this guy done to get 5 years head coaching job from the New York Rangers.

Other than looking like mitt Romney and mike sullivan combined I don’t see the allure.
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You mean like a cross between DJ Elliot (from JAG) and Jay Leno.
 
I recommended Quinn almost two years ago, maybe less.

He was an assistant coach under Ben Smith at NU when I was a hockey intern. Great guy.

He's had a tough job making elite prospects find defined roles. Not an easy job. Quinn definitely has the ability to get the most out of his players. If this was a veteran team, I'd say good luck. But there are a lot of kids moving up and he's the right guy for the early stages of a rebuild.

Tactically, he employs a heavy forecheck and activates the defense. He wants them down low. Best thing about him us he rides his best forwards -- something Vigneault avoided because if his lame 45-second shift rule.

Again, don't know if he'll be the coach when they contend again, but he's perfect for a team that by 2019 should have one of hockey's best prospect pools.
 
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Oscar Lindberg said:
Brooks mentioned them building an analytics team, wonder if they poach her.
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I want them to leverage sport logic out of Canada. I work with analytics for my clients, and when you've got great, clean data, you can do some amazing things.

I'm not a corsi guy or anything like that, but I've seen parts of sport logics data sets for hockey. They measure things like top speed, successful counter transitions, situational save percentages and scoring percentages.

It would be cool if they can execute on that.
 
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I’m warming up to the hire. I think the key word here is patience. There’s going to be a couple of years of growing pains and learning, as it’s supposed to be at this stage of a rebuild, and after some research I think Quinn can help with that.
What I’m most relieved about though is that we’ll finally see our players in a different system and see what that brings out in them.
 
Oscar Lindberg said:
Brooks mentioned them building an analytics team, wonder if they poach her.
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I understand the 'analytics' jargon is all the rage, it's trendy and seems to be progressive. Translation - it will buy all levels of management (across all sports) more time, which at the end of the day is the goal - everyone wants to get paid. Throw in a few sentences about 'analytics' and the perception is that you're at the forefront. I think it's pretty transparent - I'm not buying it.

As for hiring her, sure? You're talking about a pretty low level footprint. There's no 'poaching' - sorry.
 
Go Away Staal said:
SF is about to slide into her DMs.
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Sliding into girl's DMs is weird. I had never done it before until recently, on the advice of some other friends who don't think it's weird. Naturally, I polled a lot of people on whether or not I should do it. Everyone said to shoot your shot. So I did. Two months later, and we're married.

JK, she ignored it.

To keep this post on topic: I bet David Quinn will be either a good or bad coach!
 
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silverfish said:
Sliding into girl's DMs is weird. I had never done it before until recently, on the advice of some other friends who don't think it's weird. Naturally, I polled a lot of people on whether or not I should do it. Everyone said to shoot your shot. So I did. Two months later, and we're married.

JK, she ignored it.

To keep this post on topic: I bet David Quinn will be either a good or bad coach!
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I think you probably mean an informal poll, but in my head you did a public poll.
 
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silverfish said:
I have five different iterations of posts ready to go in a notepad file that are waiting to be copy and pasted:

1. At least under AV we got some good looks
2. Go back to the NCAA
3. Bawstahn, yeah?
4. Fire Gorton
5. Sign Nakladal
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NOT ENUFF NAWTH SOUTH HAWKEY

Gonna take a shot every time I see someone mention trading up for Tkachuk or blaming Gorton for missing out on Montgomery. RIP my liver
 
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GregSirico said:
That’s just silly. Tkachuk is a fine player and if he’s available at 9 I’m pumped. I’m not trading up to 2-4 for him but at 9 he’s a great grab. He’s going to be a solid top 6 forward.
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Probably not an elite forward but probably a legit 1st line forward and he's big and a pain in the ass to play against. He would be a big get. I actually don't see him getting to us at 9 and like you I wouldn't trade up to get to him.

Saying that there are two links on the Rangers to Tkachuk now--Quinn his coach last year and Kevin Hayes his cousin.
 
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There are a few details still to be worked out, but sources tell The Athletic that Boston University coach David Quinn will become the Rangers’ next head coach.

No official announcement has yet been made – and won’t be made at least until Rangers GM Jeff Gorton returns to New York Monday from scouting the World Championships in Denmark – but Quinn has accepted the position.

There were reports Saturday that Quinn informed B.U. athletic director Drew Marrochello that he planned to leave the college ranks to take the Rangers job, vacated by the firing of Alain Vigneault on April 7.

Quinn is expected to sign a five-year contract worth approximately $12.5 million to leave what he has described as his dream job and become the 36thhead coach in Rangers history.

Quinn has strong ties to another B.U. alum, Rangers assistant GM Chris Drury, and is the first Rangers coach to have no NHL head coaching or playing experience since Herb Brooks in 1981. Of course, Brooks had a fairly significant accomplishment on his resume in 1980.

In his five seasons behind BU’s bench – which ran concurrently to Vigneault’s Rangers career – the Terriers were 105–67–21 and NCAA runners-up (and Hockey East champs) in 2014-15.
Quinn, 51, is a Mike Sullivan clone, not just in the way he coaches, but in the way he speaks.

A three-time Cup champ, two as a head coach with Pittsburgh, Sullivan played center at B.U. for four seasons. He and Quinn were teammates in 1986-87. Sullivan, by the way, was drafted by the Rangers (69th overall) in 1987, and served as a Rangers assistant coach under John Tortorella.

Quinn has coached at every level, including as an assistant to Joe Sacco with the Colorado Avalanche – and don’t be shocked if Sacco, now an assistant with Boston, joins Quinn in New York – and as a minor-league coach for Colorado’s Lake Erie affiliate.

Headed into a rebuilding situation, and one in which he will be responsible for developing a slew of young players – including Lias Andersson, Filip Chytil, Neal Pionk and, ultimately, Libor Hajek, Brett Howden and Ryan Lindgren, among many others – should be right up Quinn’s alley.
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My problems are two fold.

the guy didn’t want to take the job. We should not have to beg a no name college coach to come coach the New York Rangers. It doesn’t work when you have to buy a player that comes as a mercenary and I don’t think it works in this regard either. This bothers me big time. We should not have to pay a college coach with zero nhl experience playing or coaching 12.5 million dollars for 5 years. That is absurd. Makes him one of highest paid coaches in the league. It would be like paying jimmy vesey 5 mil for 5 years outta college. Quinn should have gotten a rookie type coaching contract. Like jack capuano got. What’s hakstol make? Probably nothing.

Secondly as I’ve said this guy is not known for winning anything. He’s known for charming guys to come to BU. He’s a recruiter. Is he an nhl coach?

I don’t know. I really don’t. Time will tell. Guy is going to schmooze everyone in the press conference no doubt in my mind and we’ll all feel warm inside.

But I want results. He’s got a lot of good pieces here already. He’s not getting the trash that Tom Renney had
 
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