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

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Elliotte Friedman reported on the Jeff Marek show that people at the NHL scouting combine in Buffalo believe Hynes has a very chance to get the job and they think it's Hynes. The Rangers may have spoken to Hynes recently. Again.

It will be available on the pod within the next few hours.

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RangerBoy said:
Elliotte Friedman reported on the Jeff Marek show that people at the NHL scouting combine in Buffalo believe Hynes has a very chance to get the job and they think it's Hynes. The Rangers may have spoken to Hynes recently. Again.

It will be available on the pod within the next few hours.

Hire good assistant coaches.
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Can't wait to watch Jay Leach get a chance elsewhere and 4 years from now everyone on this board will be wondering how we can poach him from whatever team he is coaching
 
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RangerBoy said:
Elliotte Friedman reported on the Jeff Marek show that people at the NHL scouting combine in Buffalo believe Hynes has a very chance to get the job and they think it's Hynes. The Rangers may have spoken to Hynes recently. Again.

It will be available on the pod within the next few hours.

Hire good assistant coaches.
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Of course Drury is going to hire him. Drury needs a good puppet so he can control things and Hynes fits that perfectly. Plus it gives his boy a nice salary to do nothing but follow his orders.

Losing Gorton/JD was the worst thing that could have happen to this team in the last couple decades.
 
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I genuinely don't give two shits who we hire to stand behind the bench this year. In my mind, the onus is 100% on the players at this point. We tend to give way too much credit to people that stand behind the bench anyway.

Roy would have been *chef's kiss* level of fun. But Hynes is incredibly ugly, so I can get behind that too. It looks like he was a blob of pudding that congealed in the sun and just so happened to resemble a human being.
 
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alkurtz said:
Why the reluctance to hire someone fresh?

Simple: the players were unhappy with DQ...result: fired. The players were unhappy with GG...result: fired.

Not that I don't think that GG should have been fired, because I do.

But, it makes you wonder if the inmates are running the asylum.

Bringing in a "never coached in the NHL before" head coach might be like feeding a newbie to the lions.

Drury might feel that an experienced hand, one with a no nonsense reputation, might be required.

From everything we think we know, this does not seem like the easiest group to coach.
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I actually dont' think the players were totally unhappy with either of those guys. Strome was a little bitch about it but reportedly Quinn figured out he needed to loosen some stuff up. I think far more likely he was fired because Drury came in and wanted his own coach and thought the team was underperforming because Quinn wasn't getting enough out of them. Far less about what the players had to say.
Also doesn't seem like the players wanted Gallant fired so much as they said "we need more help". Drury had already clashed with Gallant some before then so that was an easy sign to release him.

Difference between bringing in someone like Quinn versus someone like Leach or Knobloch is that Leach has NHL coaching experience as an assistant and Knobloch has organizational familiarity and pro coaching experience, while Quinn was a college coach and coaching college kids is a lot different.

Anyways I think hiring Hynes would be dumb as all hell because he's done nothing but produce mediocre to bad results and feels like falling into the "players are lazy under a player friuendly coach now they need a hardass who won't coddle them 'which is an extremely dumb way to make coaching decisions in todays NHL
 
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I genuinely don't give two shits who we hire to stand behind the bench this year. In my mind, the onus is 100% on the players at this point. We tend to give way too much credit to people that stand behind the bench anyway.

Roy would have been *chef's kiss* level of fun. But Hynes is incredibly ugly, so I can get behind that too. It looks like he was a blob of pudding that congealed in the sun and just so happened to resemble a human being.
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Hynes looks way too much like Gail the Snail for my liking.



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Harbour Dog said:
I genuinely don't give two shits who we hire to stand behind the bench this year. In my mind, the onus is 100% on the players at this point. We tend to give way too much credit to people that stand behind the bench anyway.

Roy would have been *chef's kiss* level of fun. But Hynes is incredibly ugly, so I can get behind that too. It looks like he was a blob of pudding that congealed in the sun and just so happened to resemble a human being.
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See, I disagree here. The bench sets the vision. It sets the style. It is up to the players to execute on that vision. A coach can make or break a team. It can't turn dogshit into diamonds, but it can certainly make it palatable and also take something good and make it great.
 
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in the past it might have been more true that coaches existed more as motivators and all but the NHL has moved far past the days when Mike Keenan could yell at players a whole bunch and then have Messier rally them to go out and win some games
 
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Isn't Hynes primarily a defensive coach who ran into trouble with the Preds because his system suppressed offense?

How is that going to fly with Panarin? This team, as presently constituted is not designed to playa defensive game. Easy to say that Hynes should just tell Panarin it's my system and you play it. But that doesn't work in reality and, as many who like to dump Panarin, it is not going to happen.

Hiring Hynes, to me, is a mistake. Honestly, between the two, I'd take Laviolette.
 
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alkurtz said:
Isn't Hynes primarily a defensive coach who ran into trouble with the Preds because his system suppressed offense?

How is that going to fly with Panarin? This team, as presently constituted is not designed to playa defensive game. Easy to say that Hynes should just tell Panarin it's my system and you play it. But that doesn't work in reality and, as many who like to dump Panarin, it is not going to happen.

Hiring Hynes, to me, is a mistake. Honestly, between the two, I'd take Laviolette.
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Difficult to say because Nashville has always been a team whose strength is on the blueline.
 
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Hynes is a bore but I’d like to see what he can do to our defenseman if he gets here. I think Miller can be like Josi with the right coaching. He’d help Fox too I bet
 
If it is indeed between Hynes and Laviolette - and there are no other outside candidates involved, the fact that its taking so long to decide between the two is worrisome in and of itself.

Of course there could be a hundred other reasons why this has been dragged out. But no one knows because of how much of a tight ship Drury runs.
 
RangerBoy said:
Elliotte Friedman reported on the Jeff Marek show that people at the NHL scouting combine in Buffalo believe Hynes has a very chance to get the job and they think it's Hynes. The Rangers may have spoken to Hynes recently. Again.

It will be available on the pod within the next few hours.

Hire good assistant coaches.
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Awesome
 
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McRanger92 said:
Friedman changes his mind every day. He comes off like such a clown because he’s rather be first than report accurate info. The team accounts scoop him all the time

Marek mentioned PLD would be interested in the Rangers as well.
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Want NO part of that whiny entitled bitch PLD.
 
SRHRangers said:
Want NO part of that whiny entitled bitch PLD.
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Seems to me like he’s exercising his rights as a player to not be stuck in Columbus and Winnipeg his whole career. I’m not going to paint him as a bad guy for wanting a bigger market. He’s also a very good player and the type we could use. He’s basically doing what Tkachuk did last year
 
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McRanger92 said:
Seems to me like he’s exercising his rights as a player to not be stuck in Columbus and Winnipeg his whole career. I’m not going to paint him as a bad guy for wanting a bigger market. He’s also a very good player and the type we could use. He’s basically doing what Tkachuk did last year
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He's trying to get himself to Montreal before free agency.

He's the textbook example of how putrid this generation is.

And he flat out quit on 2 franchises.

PLD is a "me" guy. Last thing we need is more of them.
 
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