Confirmed with Link: Rangers promote Jeff Malcolm to replwce Benoit Allaire

[RangersFan1994]

Rangers promote Jeff Malcolm to replace Benoit Allaire as goalie coach

The Rangers have hired a new goaltenders coach, and it is someone very familiar with the organization and former goalies coach Benoit Allaire.

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[Fitzy]

I cannot imagine this will be a long term solution.

 

[nyr2k2]

I cannot imagine this will be a long term solution.

IDK, I think they want it to be. They hired Malcolm as a consultant basically as soon as he retired and then as the Hartford goalie coach a few years ago. Seems like they've been grooming him for this role. We know Drury is not at all hesitant to cut ties with a legacy from the previous administration, so this move indicates to me that he's a Drury Guy.

I mean unless he's terrible. Drury, for whatever faults he has, seems willing to acknowledge mistakes and move on from them. Otherwise though I'd guess Malcolm is seen as the heir apparent.

 

[eco's bones]

Malcolm was a Pack/sometimes ECHL goalie for 2/3 years. He's been the goalie coach in Hartford now I think for 3/4 years. I think he played college at Yale U.

 

[CasusBelli]

Really not sure how screwed we are. Lots of time to learn from BA. But some things you just don’t learn. Big shoes to fill. Just needs to keep #31 on form, though, since we don’t have young talent in the pipe.

 

[will1066]

Is Hank any interested at all with being a goalie coach?

 

[SeanAveryTheGreatOne]

Benoit Allaire is irreplaceable until proven otherwise

 

[nyr2k2]

Mitch Korn and Bob Essensa are two other guys that have had phenomenal careers in that role. They don't come around often, but they do exist.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

If it wasnt Malcom, I was hoping they wouldve pried my buddy Jared from Tampa who I played with in college.

We billeted him for several weeks in NJ before he transferred to Trinity. Great guy, super smart and an excellent goalie coach whos made his way up the ranks. He's one of the next Allaires.

Jared Waimon

teamusa.usahockey.com

 

[romba]

Is Hank any interested at all with being a goalie coach?

That’d be like Gretzky as a coach- ‘Be more like me and we’ll win’

 

[will1066]

"Jeff Malcom will replace longtime Rangers goaltending coach Benoit Allaire, Joe. Of course, he's no relation to Jeff Goldblum, who played Dr. Ian Malcolm in the Jurassic Park franchise."

I'll show myself out.

 

[Machinehead]

Is Hank any interested at all with being a goalie coach?

I don't think that would be a fit.

"Sit way too far back and rely on generational reflexes and movement" isn't advice for most goalies.

I definitely could see Hank getting into the business in a front office capacity, but most goalies wouldn't be able to draw on what he can do.

 

[majordomo]

Is Hank any interested at all with being a goalie coach?

I get the feeling he would not be a good coach.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Ramsey, Sam, Benoit…

They are purging the wrong people from the organization.

 

[nyr2k2]

Ramsey, Sam, Benoit…

They are purging the wrong people from the organization.

Allaire isn't being purged. This transition started in 2021 and he's still here. If Drury wanted to "purge" him he'd just fire him. We know he has no problem doing that.

Allaire is also 60 and has been coaching for 35 years. He may well be looking to shift full time into a different role or even start transitioning out of the organization himself.

 

[Hunter Gathers]

Malcolm has basically been learning from Allaire the last few years. Allaire has been training him to take over. This seems to have been the plan all along.

 

[Roo Returns]

Ramsey, Sam, Benoit…

They are purging the wrong people from the organization.

NY is an at-will state. Sam is retiring due to age, Benoit is taking a step back because he's been doing this forever.

He's still around.

 

[n8]

Damn, I didn't know 33 year olds played in the NCAA

 

[Profet]

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Damn, I didn't know 33 year olds played in the NCAA

Check the number on the sweater.

 

[n8]

Check the number on the sweater.

Check your sense of humor.

 

[Profet]

Check your sense of humor.

Oh snap

 

[rangers1314]

shitty players usually make the best coaches

 

[Dfence033]

shitty players usually make the best coaches

So you are saying I should take up coaching and my dreams of beer league championships having any meaning to anyone else are fruitless endeavors?

 

[TopShelfSnipes]

NY is an at-will state. Sam is retiring due to age, Benoit is taking a step back because he's been doing this forever.

He's still around.

Exactly...he's the "director of goaltending" and has apparently been dealing with some health issues the past year or two. He needs a less demanding schedule and is still very much a fixture in the organization, just needs to be involved less in the day to day.

 

[Roo Returns]

Exactly...he's the "director of goaltending" and has apparently been dealing with some health issues the past year or two. He needs a less demanding schedule and is still very much a fixture in the organization, just needs to be involved less in the day to day.

Yeah, people react like it's personal that he's getting older, same with Sam. Everything from Jessiman to the Zubov and Middleton trades get brought up like this is in the same category.