News Article: Sens hire DJ Smith as head coach

[scallionjj11]

3 year contract as per TSN

[MOD]

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/senators-hire-smith-as-new-head-coach~1689517

Click to read more...

 

[Fandlauer]

 

[Hale The Villain]

Leafs fans are happy about this.

Must have been the lowest bidder.

 

[benjiv1]

Womp Womp

 

[slamigo]

 

[RyCam]

Smells like another budget Melnyk hire. It doesn't really matter either way who's coaching this team, nothing's going to change as long as Melnyk is the owner and Dorion is the GM.

 

[The Professional]

Would have preferred DJ Premier or DJ Whoo Kid but I guess with melnyks budget its DJ Smith.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

What a farce haha.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Who?

What do we know about this guy?

 

[topshelf15]

Meh ,dont think anybody here really expected anything different .....

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Definitely looking at season ticket packages now.

 

[Sentron5000]

Is it just me or does he look like Chris Penn (of Reservoir Dogs fame)?

 

[topshelf15]

In the end it doesnt really matter,we need a top 2 pick next year...Us being the worst team in the league,is exactly what we should be looking at accomplishing

 

[Smash88]

Don't know too much about him personally, but around the league he is very highly regarded.

He's been constantly rumoured the past 2 seasons as a guy that would definitely become a head coach at some point.

He may be a budget hire, but we definitely could of done worse for sure.

 

[WolfgangPuck]

He make sure the team is prepared when the Leafs are in town

 

[BUCKLE UP]

I should of expected to be disappointed... you know, being a Sens fan and all.

 

[Nordiques1979]

Damn Dorion, you know how to hide your game!

 

[Que]

lol

 

[OmniSens]

I'm fine with this hiring. Too early to tell. Y'all gotta stop being "The glass is half empty" peeps.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

I'm fine with this hiring. Too early to tell. Y'all gotta stop being "The glass is half empty" peeps.

Half?

 

[danielpalfredsson]

Definitely looking at season ticket packages now.

Personally, I am not a big fan of how they got rid of the house band and now seem to be replacing it with a DJ.

I guess kids will like it.

 

[OmniSens]

Half?

Argument could be made for "Completely empty"

 

[Larionov]

Don't know too much about him personally, but around the league he is very highly regarded.

He's been constantly rumoured the past 2 seasons as a guy that would definitely become a head coach at some point.

He may be a budget hire, but we definitely could of done worse for sure.

I feel similarly. I was wary of an untested college guy, and the two sequels (Martin and Bowness). I also thought that Patrick Roy was a disaster waiting to happen - his emotions and ego would have inevitably clashed with the GM and/or owner, and in a very public fashion.

Smith is probably a good compromise between "inspired" and "safe" as a choice. As you say, there is no shortage of people around the league who saw him as one of the best up and comers in the assistant ranks...

 

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

Leafs fans will be happy indeed. He had poor management of special teams for the Leafs and their defensive assignments at times. He's been blamed for a lot of poor decisions in deployment too. So...we're going to suck, probably. Which is fine, since we want a lottery pick the next few years I imagine.

Smith was probably cheap to hire as well. McGuire and J.R. were discussing salary talks with the Senators and McGuire basically inferred that salary should never come up at first. Which works fine for us, since we can't pay them.

 

[danielpalfredsson]

I'm fine with this hiring. Too early to tell. Y'all gotta stop being "The glass is half empty" peeps.

This is the Sens. It's not a glass. It's a paper cup that we rinse out and re-use.