egelband
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Dang. Wish Gorton knew this before hiring the slob.
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Dang. Wish Gorton knew this before hiring the slob.
Yeah, it’s vital. No friends and family hireings, please.
Will we consider Ruff to stay on? Not super thrilled about the idea, he ran the Ds last season. But he does fit some criterias...
Joe Sacco would get consideration. But can a NHL team poach an assistant from a rival? I am not sure if am thrilled about the idea of him either. He has experience and is coming from a rival that have done some good things, but I don’t want to see the friends and family factor play any part...
We got a recruiter and not a coach? The former is still great behind the bench. Quinn also built up and analytics department in Boston. I half jokingly brought up Ron Francis as a coaching option for Francis ability to help Gorton and bridge the gap in those areas. I always thought AV was too hands off management. Babcock is soooo involved in Toronto. This hypothetical scenario involved getting Francis two top associate coaches. That should also be the plan under Quinn!
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There are certain things going on in the BU hockey scene that are way more executive than you know of. That is the most I can say about that.
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Forget anything said by his former players, their development, or his accolades - go with outside perspective hot takes lol
I think people put too much emphasis on coaching. Players win. It's up to the players to execute. A team goes on the road and the home team spends so much time trying to match up lines or D pairings against the opposing players. Marty St. Louis said he liked playing on the road because the home team gets last change. MSL said just go out there and play the game. My guy against your guy. Just play.
AV didn't match up certain players against Ottawa on the road. That's why the Rangers lost is the argument. Not to start this argument again but can Lundqvist make a save on the road in that series. The pucks were going through him like wet bars of soap. They only paid him $9.5M that season. One save.
AV didn't match up certain players against Ottawa on the road. That's why the Rangers lost is the argument. Not to start this argument again but can Lundqvist make a save on the road in that series. The pucks were going through him like wet bars of soap. They only paid him $9.5M that season. One save.
I think Quinn will have a great track on most of the NCAA. Recon it’s like with everything else, for every player he is recruiting he is looking at five others. See them on the opposite team during games etc. He has also been on some US junior teams over the years.
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haohmaru
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If you're at your job doing XYZ and another company offers you to do XYZ at their company for more money, do you do XYZ any worse because you're making more money?
Do coaches usually leave AHL head coaching gigs for NHL assistant ones?
They're likely going to hire their version of Rick Bowness/Jaques Martin - an older guy with HC experience who couldn't hack it as the head guy. I think its very possible that Ruff sticks around.
I think MSL comes on board too if he wants to.
They're likely going to hire their version of Rick Bowness/Jaques Martin - an older guy with HC experience who couldn't hack it as the head guy. I think its very possible that Ruff sticks around.
I think MSL comes on board too if he wants to.
The marginals are so small, 1 of 31 wins. A coach can do a bad job and a coach can do a good job with a certain team. Of course. But I think the nit picking and — in game — decisions questioning almost always is off base...
Inferno
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Coaching isn't important? The Vegas golden knights say hello.
Wire to wire their coach has gotten them to defy the odds.
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FWIW, I think coaching is pretty important in hockey. It's insanely important in American football, where you can argue that a coach like Belichik is the most valuable human in the league, more valuable than any player.
Hockey is a little different, but I agree,. with such small marginals, little tactical decisions and modifications to player deployment can make a big difference. In order of importance of coaching among the big 4 NA sports, I think it goes football, hockey, basketball then baseball.
I know nothing about this Quinn guy so I can't comment on him directly, but I hope he brings a modern approach and doesn't have any Glass like favorites to trot out regularly.
Wow, yeah I wouldn't risk it by hiring Keefe as the coach. But I think Todd Nelson should have been higher "ranked" by Rangers than Quinn.
Inferno
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He gets a 2 year grace period with me. First year is always a learning experience for the team and the new coach..it's not easy to gallant it into wins right off the bat. You hope to see drastic improvement in year 2. And then year 3 hoping to be a borderline playoff team..year 4 firm playoff team. Year 5 upper echelon team.
PlamsUnlimited
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I seem to remember MoC being hot garbage in the third period
Watched that game front and center at 716 anticipating Eichel winning the championship and then they didn't
Only in sports do fans need this romantic notion that coaches and players do their job for the love of what they're doing and not money. It's f***ing juvenile.
Edit: And yes I'm agreeing with you.
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We have the Replacements one win away from the cup finals, and somehow it’s the coaching that’s overrated?
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