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

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It’s pretty funny this thread started two weeks ago with @EdJovanovski posting the Real Ad tweet saying this was going to happen, and it ultimately did.

As @RangerBoy pointed out last week, it’s sad that for the second straight coaching hire, Drury’s plan A was waiting to see if a coach would get fired (Sullivan, RBA before hiring Gallant, and now Sullivan again before hiring Lav) by another team to then hire him.
 
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I disagree vehemently with this having anything to do with Quenneville. That ship has sailed. It would be a hire that would meet with universal reprehension and opposition. As it should. Drury might be taking his sweet time, but I believe he set aside Quenneville weeks ago.
 
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So the Hynes stuff was absolutely just them making Laviolette more palatable right? Where the choices are eating garbage or bland toast, the toast is very appealing

Also can we finally put to rest the whole “nobody knows what Drury is doing thing, he runs a tight ship”. The entire hockey world knew for a month and a half what was happening and the team landed on the guy literally everyone said was the front runner.

Nonsense to think Drury is some ninja working in silence
 
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tbh I'm borderline right now.

I think it's an improvement on Gallant. If we play like a team from the year 2023, I guess that's a win?

I was really hoping for something fresh.....
 
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Why would anyone think this is an improvement on Gallant? I don't think that's the case at all. Time will prove it.

We shouldn't have fired him if Lavi was the result.
 
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duhmetreE said:
tbh I'm borderline right now.

I think it's an improvement on Gallant. If we play like a team from the year 2023, I guess that's a win?

I was really hoping for something fresh.....
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I’m fine with Laviolette, it’s the safer hire i guess, wanted someone fresh, but here we are.
Maybe he can get through to the vets. Think he has a 2-3 year shelf life. If the Rangers don’t win in that window, I think coaching, personnel, and potentially the GM could all change.

Maybe Gallant felt he just couldn’t coach this team anymore. I don’t think he was actually fired.
 
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Leonardo87 said:
I’m fine with Laviolette, it’s the safer hire i guess, wanted someone fresh, but here we are.
Maybe he can get through to the vets. Think he has a 2-3 year shelf life. If the Rangers don’t win in that window, I think coaching, personnel, and potentially the GM could all change.

Maybe Gallant felt he just couldn’t coach this team anymore. I don’t think he was actually fired.
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I think Gallant brought them as far as they could go. All reliant on PP and Shesty.

Lavi just doesn't excite me for 5v5 play.... maybe he reinvented himself in the past 2 months... took an ayahuasca retreat and understands what he has to do.

We should be better at 5v5... going from bottom 3rd to middle 3rd. I just dont know if it's a big enough improvement to win.
 
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I wonder how Laviolette feels knowing he’s like Drury’s 5th choice for coach?

Guess he probably doesn’t care considering he’s getting paid all the same.

The Rangers never get their guy lmao
 
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If this doesn't somehow work out, I can see Drury surviving on thin ice. Hopefully he does get through to the vets. Laviolette had a cup of coffee with us in the late 80's and played for the AHL team in Bingo for a couple years after that. Hopefully he feels like this is a little bit of a homecoming.

I'm so uninspired/unenthused going into next year compared to the last couple of seasons lmao
 
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I’m fine with Laviolette, it’s the safer hire i guess, wanted someone fresh, but here we are.
Maybe he can get through to the vets. Think he has a 2-3 year shelf life. If the Rangers don’t win in that window, I think coaching, personnel, and potentially the GM could all change.

Maybe Gallant felt he just couldn’t coach this team anymore. I don’t think he was actually fired.
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Gm’s typically get 2 coaches. This is drury’s second.
 
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Oscar Lindberg said:
So the Hynes stuff was absolutely just them making Laviolette more palatable right? Where the choices are eating garbage or bland toast, the toast is very appealing

Also can we finally put to rest the whole “nobody knows what Drury is doing thing, he runs a tight ship”. The entire hockey world knew for a month and a half what was happening and the team landed on the guy literally everyone said was the front runner.

Nonsense to think Drury is some ninja working in silence
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Why because somebody had it early? Same people changed their minds all through the process. I certainly don’t think drury is a ninja lol but to suggest he was just sitting around waiting doing nothing is nonsense to me. Maybe he was waiting on Sullivan because he liked him better or someone we don’t know he was waiting on. Or deliberating, what was the rush?

I’m not thrilled with the hire (I wanted leach or knobloch) and if it doesn’t work out then drury is likely done. But if it does work out I will be thrilled and that’s what I’m rooting for.

And before we go off on another retread let’s remember there are 2 of those coaching in the finals right now and Laviolette has been to that round 3 times! Hoping he commands the room and the guys buy in because I want to live long enough to see a second cup in my lifetime.
 
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Probably the best hire of the names we really heard they were actually considering. Stupid that they made "coaching experience," more of a priority than "having a clue how to develop youth and offensive ability."

Silver lining: This probably means the end of the horrific Drury administration sooner rather than later.

Wow, he paid not quite through the nose at a couple of trade deadlines. People act like he's front office God. The rebuild has been almost completely derailed. Way to go, ya bum. We should be entering a decade of dominance; instead, we are like 2 seasons away from another retool.

And the worst part is we get to watch the Devils as they do what we should have done. Acquire young talent in spades. They have more than us and it's sad.
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Sums it up quite well I’m afraid
 
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