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

[cwede]

 

[LiveLongandProspal]

Mitch Love would be an excellent hire for Lavy's staff

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I can't remember another #39 in Rangers history...

 

[McRanger92]

I swear the Hynes thing was a psyop to soften the blow of this hire, because I'm sitting here relieved that it's not that extraterrestrial freak. Whereas I would've hated this hire if Hynes was never brought up lol

Certainly the Rangers are making decisions based on whether or not HFB poster Ed Jovonovski will feel good about them

 

[RangersFan1994]

Really good move. We're a talented team that needs to figure out how to win hard games. If he can bring some structure to positioning and defense we're going to be better. His teams have always been hard to play against - good god we need that badly.

Do the Rangers have the roster for his style? He never had mainly finesse skilled teams. he always had heavy physical fast teams with skill. Will Kreider get back to being a bull like he joined the NHL? We dont have a Simmonds Carter Courtier Richards type here. I miss those Richards Dubinsky fights. But we have no grit in the top 6 outside of Kreider when he feels like it. His teams go towards the net to score. Rangers stop being soft and passive?

 

[ElLeetch]

I can't remember another #39 in Rangers history...

Doug Weight

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

Indeed.com really does work

 

[RangersFan1994]

Mitch Love would be an excellent hire for Lavy's staff



I can't remember another #39 in Rangers history...

Dan LaCouture
Dan Cloutier
Joel Bouchard
Vladimir Vorobiev
And so many more

NHL Players Who Wore Sweater Number 39 | Hockey-Reference.com

NHL player sweaters/uniform numbers

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[Levitate]

Others might disagree but I’m not really convinced Lavy had the teams necessary to do well recently. Press we’re starting a Downslide, Caps too
I don’t think he’s an elite coach exactly but I think he can get a skilled team there

Rangers should have the skill to do well under him. I don’t really buy the “do the llayers fit the coach” stuff. Most decent coaches will make it work or the players are more versitile than given credit for

 

[NickyFotiu]

Do the Rangers have the roster for his style? He never had mainly finesse skilled teams. he always had heavy physical fast teams with skill. Will Kreider get back to being a bull like he joined the NHL? We dont have a Simmonds Carter Courtier Richards type here. I miss those Richards Dubinsky fights. But we have no grit in the top 6 outside of Kreider when he feels like it. His teams go towards the net to score. Rangers stop being soft and passive?

We have several legit pieces but the sum of them is not great. I would look to make some moves to add speed and power.

 

[RangersFan1994]

We have several legit pieces but the sum of them is not great. I would look to make some moves to add speed and power.

Hathaway should be a Ranger. Played for Laviolette and RW him with Cuylle learning from would not be a bad thing. Better than Reaves was and a better player. And If Frederic is a real thing about to be UFA.


Cuylle Frederic and Hathaway not a bad 4th line

 

[Shesterkybomb]

I feel this hire was more to deal with the country club atmosphere than hiring the best coach, not saying it's a bad idea either, this team needs an adjustment in that regard. Will he play the kids in more prominent ways with more leeway for mistakes and hold the vets more accountable so that the two factions meet in the middle ground? Thats my hope.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Mitch Love would be an excellent hire for Lavy's staff



I can't remember another #39 in Rangers history...

Dan Cloutier slander right here

 

[NickyFotiu]

Hathaway should be a Ranger. Played for Laviolette and RW him with Cuylle learning from would not be a bad thing. Better than Reaves was and a better player. And If Frederic is a real thing about to be UFA.


Cuylle Frederic and Hathaway not a bad 4th line

I would like us to have a heavy fast 4th line that really causes problems. Really none of Motte, Vesey nor Goodrow fit that picture for me. With that said I think we need something else in the top 6. The top 6 we have is good on the PP but they are very easy to play against 5 on 5.

Also our defense is slow in my opinion. I hope Lav pushes Fox to play harder by moving his feet more in his own zone. He tries to play smart instead. As much as I like Lindgren I do not love him as a top pairing guy for the future. I would seek a fast strong 1st pairing left D.

 

[Synergy27]

Mid. Meh.

 

[Levitate]

phone posting, blah

Regarding the "country club" I think that's the problem you get with hands off coaches like AV and Gallant. It's not a specific player issue but you're literally getting the coaches saying "ya'll deal with this"

that said I also think the idea is overblown. The players aren't sitting around being lazy and taking it easy and not caring. You don't get to be a NHL player with that kind of attitude. I think it comes back to someone who can focus them better rather than leave it in their laps. Maybe if you have a special player who can do that all themselves that's something, but it's not very common and it'd be dumb to wait around for it.

Anyways, this obviously isn't a franchise altering hire where they're looking for the next guy to carry them for the next decade. It's a win now move with the hope that Lavy can take a group of talented players and push them through to a Cup in the next 3 years.

I think people will also be surprised at how much faster the team will play if he installs and teaches a solid structured system that the players buy into.

 

[mike14]

Seems like much of a muchness coaching wise, but good to hear a decision has been made. Here's hoping he can all the roster bits to work.

Do the players get any input into coaching hires? They seem to be able to get coaches fired, but you never hear about them being part of a selection process.

 

[Crease]

As far as I can tell, no current Rangers have player under Lavi before. Which is fine. Clean slate for everyone.

 

[Chalfdiggity3]

Do the Rangers have the roster for his style? He never had mainly finesse skilled teams. he always had heavy physical fast teams with skill. Will Kreider get back to being a bull like he joined the NHL? We dont have a Simmonds Carter Courtier Richards type here. I miss those Richards Dubinsky fights. But we have no grit in the top 6 outside of Kreider when he feels like it. His teams go towards the net to score. Rangers stop being soft and passive?

if he is as good of a coach as all you guys are saying here then he should be able to create a game plan with the guys available. Good coaches change their style to help get the best out of their players and teams. A bad coach sticks to his style no matter what he has out on the ice.

 

[LORDE]

Indeed.com really does work

We need help.

INDEED we do

 

[Synergy27]

So no word on assistants right?

 

[Peltz]

I'm starting to come around to thinking this may work out. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Until recently, I've always liked him as a coach.

 

[Peltz]

Some choice excerpts from a recent article: Why Peter Laviolette Is a Good Fit as the Rangers' Next Head Coach

There is a particular reason to believe that Laviolette might be the right hire for the Rangers from a tactical perspective. Hard-bent on the idea that the team needed to be more physical and tougher to play against, Gallant attempted to instill a forechecking identity that relied on lots of throwing pucks forward aimlessly and chasing them down.

The Rangers were not and are not built to play like that. The likes of Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad, and Chytil bring significant speed in possession while others such as Artemi Panarin, Vincent Trocheck, and Alexis Lafreniére are highly skilled puck handlers.

Both Washington and Nashville played styles more in-line with a rush-offense initiative. Both teams would defend well and defenders would send the puck forward for quick strikes on rushes the other way.

In Washington, this rush offense was catalyzed by high-end puck movers in the back such as John Carlson, Dimitri Orlov, and Nick Jensen while Nashville had Roman Josi, Mattias Ekholm, and PK Subban.

This is where things become dicey in New York. As the data collected by All Three Zones indicates, the defensive group was very poor at moving the puck up the ice with possession last season.

Basically, Gallant tried to make us dump and chase and we aren't built that way. The author thinks Laviolette will try and get the team to be more of a rush offense but it will be an uphill battle since our defenders, other than Fox, don't really play that way and we are so bad at exiting our defensive zone.

 

[17futurecap]

Some choice excerpts from a recent article: Why Peter Laviolette Is a Good Fit as the Rangers' Next Head Coach








Basically, Gallant tried to make us dump and chase and we aren't built that way. The author thinks Laviolette will try and get the team to be more of a rush offense but it will be an uphill battle since our defenders, other than Fox, don't really play that way and we are so bad at exiting our defensive zone.

That Trouba contract is a disaster.

 

[alkurtz]

Time to give him the benefit of the doubt. Despite our serious reservations, he is the coach. We all want the best for our team, hopefully he can bring that "best" out. Every long time coach has had success and has failed. In the end, I think Drury wanted experience more than anything else. You can make a strong case for a first time coach, and that is how I would have gone, but you can also make a strong case for experience.

On another related topic, I find it amusing that many times when a team underperforms, the culture is described as "country club." Do you feel that the Rangers were not putting in effort last year? I don't. Sometimes things don't work out for a myriad of reasons. Was Panarin's lack of playoff success due to him loafing? I don't believe so. Was it because he is just not the type of player who succeeds in big time situations? Maybe. Was it because he is resisting changing his style of play as he ages and his skills erode a bit? Maybe. Sports are complicated. Was Zibs lack of success this year because he is not a "big time player" or was it just one of those things? He has always been a streaky scorer (if players and coaches understood why that is, everyone would be consistent), maybe he was in one of down streaks at a bad time.

But "country club?" I really don't quite understand what that means except it is easy to say that. Gallant was a player's coach. Isn't that what we wanted? And player's coaches have succeeded.

Jury is out on Laviolette. But I am more than willing to give him time and see what transpires.

 

[cwede]

... I can't remember another #39 in Rangers history...

An ancient voice in my head is saying Weight
Will look it up