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Confirmed with Link: Rangers Hire Peter Laviolette as Head Coach, Assistants Michael Peca & Dan Muse

NY Post has an article saying Patrick Roy had zero interest from any NHL teams.

Roy stepped down as the head coach and general manager of the QMJHL’s Quebec Remparts on Tuesday, and when asked if any pro teams expressed interest in him for a coaching job, Roy said “absolutely none,” according to TSN.
 
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Levitate said:
Coming around a bit too but mainly because I shifted my thinking somewhat from "Rangers need to find a new coach to be "the guy" for the foreseeable future" and more "Rangers are hiring this guy to come in and try to win NOW with the current team, and he'll likely be out in 3 years and the Rangers will be retooling their lineup and looking for a new coach to grow with them then"
Lavy isn't a sexy new hire but he's an experienced coach who knows his way around a team and players and the NHL and brings what the players were reportedly asking for. For all the "country club" and "veteran personalities" and "players getting the coach fired" people are talking about, that's directly a result of how Gallant ran his team. He was hands off, he wanted the players to police themselves and solve their problems, and in the end the players said "we don't want that we want a coach who will push us and help get us over the top"

So, that's what they're getting. If it doesn't get done then we'll see a roster restructure soon and just have to cross our fingers that someone like Laf and Kakko step up to lead the team going forward.
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Well said and completely agree
 
The Crypto Guy said:
I'm sure he is allowed to reach out and say hello, even grab a beer with them if he wanted. Getting them together to skate/train on the other hand is a no-no.
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Yeah I think it would have to be off the ice and on an informal basis. He'll reach out to Lafreniere. Seeing an unlisted number, Laf will answer Lavi's call in French. Then he hangs up on Lavi upon identifying himself as the new head coach and mutters, in French, in the third person, "Offseason is Alexis Lafreniere time. Alexis Lafreniere do what he wants."
 
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nyrage said:
This was not a sexy hire, so I get why everyone is down about it, but the available coaching pool was pretty lackluster. Everyone was flawed. Gallant wasn't it, so I was happy to move on.

I almost feel bad for Lavy since he's basically dead man walking. No coach is going to make some of our guys better at 5 on 5 in the playoffs. This roster is flawed the way it's built.

You can't have so much tied up in the cap on players that become invisible in the playoffs, especially when they're not on the pp. Rather than fight for possession, they rather swing the puck around the boards blindly. They don't even want to go after the puck when it's in the corner or in high traffic. The worst part is that almost everyone has a no-trade clause, so we're just going to mostly run it back and hope Igor steals playoff games.
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I don’t feel like the roster is as flawed as you do.

I think the execution has been poor but that’s due to a lack of cohesion rather than incapable players on an individual level.

They send the puck around the boards because they don’t have options on the ice. Good coaching may create options.
 
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Vince saying Laviolette could be a short termer if the results aren’t immediate. 3 year deal tracks with that. It’s how it should be. In 2-3 years if we don’t win all the big contracts are up or moveable and we can hire Knoblauch and transistion to the younger core
 
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Vince saying Laviolette could be a short termer if the results aren’t immediate. 3 year deal tracks with that. It’s how it should be. In 2-3 years if we don’t win all the big contracts are up or moveable and we can hire Knoblauch and transistion to the younger core
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Vince acts like this isn’t obvious to anyone with eyes lmao

If they don’t win in the next two years the entire house is being cleaned, Drury included
 
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NickyFotiu said:
NY Post has an article saying Patrick Roy had zero interest from any NHL teams.

Roy stepped down as the head coach and general manager of the QMJHL’s Quebec Remparts on Tuesday, and when asked if any pro teams expressed interest in him for a coaching job, Roy said “absolutely none,” according to TSN.
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That's bananas. The guy just won the Memorial Cup (his second), he won a Jack Adams. Because his team had two bad seasons a few years ago he's not getting any interest. Yet, the carousel of retread coaches who fail constantly, keep getting hired.

If Drury didn't at least interview Roy he should be fired.
 
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McRanger92 said:
Vince saying Laviolette could be a short termer if the results aren’t immediate. 3 year deal tracks with that. It’s how it should be. In 2-3 years if we don’t win all the big contracts are up or moveable and we can hire Knoblauch and transistion to the younger core
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They should transition to the younger core right now and the vets should be secondary support players. That's exactly how it should be. They do everything ass backwards though. The only vet that should be getting precedence over the young core is Zibanejad because we don't have another 1C type available. Otherwise Laf, Kakko, and Chytil should all be cemented in the top 6.
 
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GENESISPuck94 said:
That's bananas. The guy just won the Memorial Cup (his second), he won a Jack Adams. Because his team had two bad seasons a few years ago he's not getting any interest. Yet, the carousel of retread coaches who fail constantly, keep getting hired.

If Drury didn't at least interview Roy he should be fired.
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Sometimes we don't know everything behind the scenes. I would have thought someone would take a chance but.........
 
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GENESISPuck94 said:
That's bananas. The guy just won the Memorial Cup (his second), he won a Jack Adams. Because his team had two bad seasons a few years ago he's not getting any interest. Yet, the carousel of retread coaches who fail constantly, keep getting hired.

If Drury didn't at least interview Roy he should be fired.
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Hockey, in general, is the most risk averse industry on the planet. No forward looking thinking. No wonder it lags behind the other 3 major sports leagues; their mentality is stuck in the 1950s.

They should've at least talked to Patrick Roy; if he said no, so be it. He's learned and has had plenty of success at the Major Junior level. He would get the player's attention.
 
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GENESISPuck94 said:
They should transition to the younger core right now and the vets should be secondary support players. That's exactly how it should be. They do everything ass backwards though. The only vet that should be getting precedence over the young core is Zibanejad because we don't have another 1C type available. Otherwise Laf, Kakko, and Chytil should all be cemented in the top 6.
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Gorton paid them all and gave them NMCs, so they’re going to stick it out with the vets until they can get out from under them. I think Laviolette’s marching orders are to get them to play as a team anyway so I expect opportunity for young players
 
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Oscar Lindberg said:
Vince acts like this isn’t obvious to anyone with eyes lmao

If they don’t win in the next two years the entire house is being cleaned, Drury included
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Fine by me. Hire Hank to run the front office with the u25 core they have in a couple years. They can win with this roster in the meantime though
 
The Crypto Guy said:
I'm sure he is allowed to reach out and say hello, even grab a beer with them if he wanted. Getting them together to skate/train on the other hand is a no-no.
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Yeah, you're not allowed to have organized skates but you can absolutely have personal meetings. When Quinn was hired he flew to Sweden to meet with Lundqvist.

It always struck me as odd when Gallant was doing his season opening presser in his first year here he said he hadn't spoken to any of the players over the summer. I get being hands off but checking in with some of the core would make a ton of sense.
 
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GENESISPuck94 said:
That's bananas. The guy just won the Memorial Cup (his second), he won a Jack Adams. Because his team had two bad seasons a few years ago he's not getting any interest. Yet, the carousel of retread coaches who fail constantly, keep getting hired.

If Drury didn't at least interview Roy he should be fired.
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Roy was also a train wreck behind the bench his last season and then he quit like a week before training camp or something crazy like that putting Colorado in a bad position. It makes sense that front offices are wary of him, deservedly so. He'll have to do some work rehabbing his reputation with NHL front offices. He'll get another chance at some point but this probably wasn't the right situation for him or the Rangers, even though admittedly I was intrigued.
 
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They should transition to the younger core right now and the vets should be secondary support players. That's exactly how it should be. They do everything ass backwards though. The only vet that should be getting precedence over the young core is Zibanejad because we don't have another 1C type available. Otherwise Laf, Kakko, and Chytil should all be cemented in the top 6.
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Exactly. Ready to hand the keys to the "kids" in their 7th season in the league, just approaching a free agent year, when they're already making 5M+ a year against the cap. Tracks perfectly with this org. and the general cap situation. Then sign a big UFA at that time to be "the" guy with the kids as "core support pieces"

We shall call it...the Chris Kreider Kiddo Development Kurve.
 
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Only on HFboards is the guy who didn't do shit in Roy and sounded like he was toxic better than the cup winner who coached his teams to three cups because the latter has been good enough to get hired a lot.
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I'm not going to pretend to speak on behalf of everyone (and lot of people here don't like some of my takes on personnel or problems with the NY region in general which is fine):

- I don't think Roy was ever a good idea. Too much of a historic hothead.

-The issue with Laviolette at least to me is energy and the fact that he's been coaching since Nu Metal was the most popular genre in the world. All weight gaining jokes aside, does he still have that same kind of energy? We all look at the clip from the 24/7 when he was coaching the Flyers and cursed. That was literally 11.5 years ago. The league has changed since then. The players are from a different generation and a lot more sensitive. Imagine Rangers Era Torts with this group. Part of being a coach is also a psychologist. I couldn't stand Quinn but he had some good ideas like have breakfast with very young players. What I'm afraid of and many might be is that this will backfire and either Laviolette won't be able to adapt to the more finesse roster, the young players won't continue to develop, or worse, they'll keep doing the same stubborn stuff they did with Quinn and Gallant, Laviolette will huff and puff, and they'll tune him out and we have a Rangers team that looks a lot like late-November/early-December before Helmetgate. At that point they're screwed because you either have to start all over again, or Dolan may just nuke it and go for a quick fix.
 
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