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Speculation: Rangers Head Coach Search (Laviolette being finalized? According to Vince and Friedman)

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Chalfdiggity3 said:
yes bc they are still kids. They are barely 23 years of age. So yes I see Lavy being more of the same bc he is that.
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The team doesn't have the cap space or roster flexibility to not play Laff and Kakko. There's no other options and they aren't bringing in a bunch of washed up vets. I don't like the idea of Lav either, but worrying about not playing Kakko or Laff seems silly. Also, by NHL standards 23 years old is not kid territory anymore. That's time to move age according to most people here.
 
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McRanger92 said:
Laviolette will be a hall of fame coach when his career is done regardless of what happens with the Rangers. People here dont even want to hear or acknowledge that the guy might know what the hell he's doing. We've played against his teams for years and they have always played the way we are begging for the Rangers to play. There wasnt even a clear better candidate out there. I'm sure we'd have given the Leafs Powerplay coordinator a long leash lmao
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Quenneville is the guy, but his baggage and meeting don't line up with our timeline. Therefore, what do people want? Knoblauch? Talk about inspiring. Aside from a nice two months in Hartford, after Martin and Drury went out and acquired veteran depth for him, what did he ever accomplish? Yea, he coached McDavid and DeBrincat. Nice.
 
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Anthony5967 said:
Quenneville is the guy, but his baggage and meeting don't line up with our timeline. Therefore, what do people want? Knoblauch? Talk about inspiring. Aside from a nice two months in Hartford, after Martin and Drury went out and acquired veteran depth for him, what did he ever accomplish? Yea, he coached McDavid and DeBrincat. Nice.
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I mean Jay Leach is a nice candidate too but it shows how in demand he really is that if he gets an HC job, it will be with Anaheim or Columbus who are among the worst teams in the entire NHL.
 
I think Drury's seat would be hot as hell if he hired a coach Jimmy has never heard of and proceeded to be outside the PO. Not the time to be developing coaches on the fly.

The time for that innovative hire of a real and qualified up and comer (NHL Asst. AHL HC resume, not college buffoon HC) was 2018.
 
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McRanger92 said:
Someone had to put their name out there lol. Hopefully the people who say they are rooting for another team actually go, but with most everything I think they really just want attention
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I will join you.

I don't actively like the hire, assuming it happens, but I don't hate it, either. Laviolette is an accomplished coach and I understand why he'd be appealing to the organization. The reality is other than the other retreads, I don't know enough about other guys to say who I'd rather have. Some of the names people have mentioned here that would be first time HCs, are unknown entities to me.

For me, I would have preferred the "I don't know" option, but it doesn't exist.
 
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nyr2k2 said:
I will join you.

I don't actively like the hire, assuming it happens, but I don't hate it, either. Laviolette is an accomplished coach and I understand why he'd be appealing to the organization. The reality is other than the other retreads, I don't know enough about other guys to say who I'd rather have.

For me, I would have preferred the "I don't know" option, but it doesn't exist.
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The election was rigged by the existence of only 2 choices. That never happens!

This is just about the most boring hire imaginable but boring is good, especially when the team itself isn't changing significantly and is not far from getting to where they want to go. A new voice from a respected coach has helped 2 recent disappointments meet in the Final this year.
 
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It's a morbid thing to say, but it's the elephant in the room.

The Rangers and Knicks will be better off when Dolan is in the dirt.

And double that for the Rangers with Sather.
 
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nyr2k2 said:
I will join you.

I don't actively like the hire, assuming it happens, but I don't hate it, either. Laviolette is an accomplished coach and I understand why he'd be appealing to the organization. The reality is other than the other retreads, I don't know enough about other guys to say who I'd rather have. Some of the names people have mentioned here that would be first time HCs, are unknown entities to me.

For me, I would have preferred the "I don't know" option, but it doesn't exist.
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Kinda where I'm at. I think on the list of retreads and recycled candidates, Laviolette was tops for me. But I would also say that's more of an indictment on the list (Babcock and Q were complete non-starters for me then you get names like Hynes which you just have to laugh at) then my liking of Laviolette. This hiring falls truly in the whatever camp for me. Could be better and could be worse and I'll give him a chance.

I see the appeal and I kinda "get" why but I really would have liked someone with fresh ideas and a fresh mindset. This team (maybe just the owner with everyone following suit) the past few years has had this all in mindset that they have to win the Cup and will do anything to win it without the realization you can still win it without making said moves. You can still win a Cup with a first year coach, you can still win a Cup without signing Barclay Goodrow for 6 years, you can still win a Cup without trading futures for washed up and injured Patrick Kane. They have this narrow minded view of having to do these things when you can easily hire a first year coach, you can just play the kids, you can do a lot of different things that might not seem like a "win now" move but will yield the similar (or maybe even better!) results.

It doesn't have to be one specific way. And guess what, if you do take a step back is it worse than what just happened this year where you pushed your chips in again and failed miserably and have no answers to the questions you have about your kids? I genuinely wonder how much of this is Dolan pushed about winning now and Drury is just doing what he has to do fulfill the owner's wishes. This isn't absolving him but if the owner says win and win now, you'll try and do what makes sense for the present otherwise you'll be seeking employment elsewhere.
 
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nyr2k2 said:
I will join you.

I don't actively like the hire, assuming it happens, but I don't hate it, either. Laviolette is an accomplished coach and I understand why he'd be appealing to the organization. The reality is other than the other retreads, I don't know enough about other guys to say who I'd rather have. Some of the names people have mentioned here that would be first time HCs, are unknown entities to me.

For me, I would have preferred the "I don't know" option, but it doesn't exist.
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I don't affirmatively like the hire because I think it ultimately is too safe and too samey. I prefer to be aggressive and if it backfires, start from scratch again, but that's how I am with roster construction too, go big or go home.

But I can acknowledge there is the possibility that Lavi has a better structure and system than Gallant, at least allegedly.

For me, he is gonna be graded on getting the kids to develop and break out. He doesn't have a great track record of that so I'm very skeptical. It's a must. If Drury isn't telling him in the interviews that objective #1 is developing the kids then Drury should be fired too.
 
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mas0764 said:
I don't affirmatively like the hire because I think it ultimately is too safe and too samey. I prefer to be aggressive and if it backfires, start from scratch again, but that's how I am with roster construction too, go big or go home.

But I can acknowledge there is the possibility that Lavi has a better structure and system than Gallant, at least allegedly.

For me, he is gonna be graded on getting the kids to develop and break out. He doesn't have a great track record of that so I'm very skeptical. It's a must. If Drury isn't telling him in the interviews that objective #1 is developing the kids then Drury should be fired too.
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Yeah I mean someone called him Gallant with a system, which is a Gallant we would have preferred and who may not have gotten himself fired. Hahaha.
 
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So, we're slowly upgrading.

Quinn to Gallant
Gallant to Lavi

We will eventually get there but this is the last hurrah with this 'core'. Major changes come in 2-3 years... kind of reinforces the importance of developing our youth.
 
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I'm sure Lavi has a plan going into this shit show of a group.
 
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