Bryanbryoil
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- Sep 13, 2004
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We have McDavidI don't care what they do, who they hire, sign, trade for, or draft; but just once, ONCE!! i want to see them make a decision and hit grand slam home run.
be the team that hired Mike Sullivan
be the team that drafted Johnny Gaudrea or Shea Weber
be the team that traded a pretty good player and gets a Hart Trophy candidate back (i guess that did happen once with Pronger)
be the team that traded for draft picks and draft Barzal
I can't take these disappointments much longer. Please! Please! hockey Gods. can just one effin thing work out!?!!??!!?
this is my vote as well, if the team wants to ditch McLellan. That partial season that Nelson coached was an admirable team. They lost games, but far less than Eakins did, and Nelson had to deal with more injuries and of course Petry getting traded. I'd even say that last year's winning team never quite had the swagger of that Nelson team.I vote Todd Nelson, I ran into him in Edmonton when he was interim coach here and we had some dranks haahaha. Seemed chill.
I feel like they didn't have that sort of identity until the playoffs startedthis is my vote as well, if the team wants to ditch McLellan. That partial season that Nelson coached was an admirable team. They lost games, but far less than Eakins did, and Nelson had to deal with more injuries and of course Petry getting traded. I'd even say that last year's winning team never quite had the swagger of that Nelson team.
Boudreau just has very simple and concise messaging to his team, knows the 2 or 3 buttons to press and keeps things as simple as possible to get results, also focuses heavily on his own teams gameplan rather than countering the opposition. In the regular season he tends to do quite well cause he doesn't burn his players out and they get results from following his instructions so it builds a good feedback loop. His teams fail in the playoffs cause the other teams opposition gameplans for him and he doesn't gameplan for the opposition nearly as well and his teams are generally just consistently good during the regular season they don't tend to battle a lot of hardship/adversity in the season and when playoffs come they rarely seem to have much resiliency, things go bad and they can't get it back on the tracks or draw out that emotion for his group to push through it.I understand that, but Boudreau has a habit of improving teams at least 20 points in standings after taking over. Our best players are offensive players. Having the best player with the best offensive coach sure would be fun to watch. But yeah, it's strange that a guy who number 2 all time in winning percentage is unable to crack .500 in the playoffs. Could putting him with the best player in the league be the final piece to get him playoff success. At this point, I think it's gotten into his own head about Playoff underachievements and if he could get a couple series wins, maybe it would finally crack.
I used to think Tippett as well, but really what has he accomplished other than keeping poor teams competitive. His Dallas gig had a pretty solid roster to start and he usally got bounced in the first round. When he did finally get to conference finals, he did so with lesser rosters on the strength of amazing goaltending and team defense (his strength), but hasn't been back to the playoffs since. Do we want a defensive minded coach leading this group. Don't know.
Vigneault, does at least have a couple cup final appearances, but you could also argue that he had good enough teams in Vancouver that they should have a cup to show for it. However, other than the one year, they fell out of the playoffs too early. Don't know what to make of his time in New York though. Turned that team around pretty quickly and had a couple deep playoff runs, but got stuck in a strong cycle for that division and has been declining quite quickly since then. One common thread though with his best seasons..... near-Vezina caliber goaltending. Is he going to get that in Edmonton.
Yawney would be a great Johnson replacement but we’d still need a good powerplay guy if we are going to stick with McLellan. Are there any good candidates out there?
Gulutzan ran the PP in Vancouver for one season and it wasn't very good. He had way more success with their PK for two seasons. I think if he was coming to Edmonton it would be to do that latter. But that would be Yawney's job, so I don't think GG will be hired.Not sure if I could stomach GG...
And wasn't their PP almost as bad as ours?
“The expectation when I came in was to play meaningful games in March and we overachieved in going from 77 to 94 points,” he said Monday of the Flames’ 2016-17 record. “Then we’re supposed to win the Stanley Cup — it doesn’t work that way.
“We were going to get there (the playoffs) if we didn’t get injured, and Calgary has some good young guys.”
Is this Leavins fellow a fairly reliable source? I had never heard of him until your post.
He writes for Staples' Cult of Hockey blog and hears some things. I think he's just guessing who the assistants will be in that tweet though.Is this Leavins fellow a fairly reliable source? I had never heard of him until your post.
Does drafting Draisaitl over Bennett count?I don't care what they do, who they hire, sign, trade for, or draft; but just once, ONCE!! i want to see them make a decision and hit grand slam home run.
be the team that hired Mike Sullivan
be the team that drafted Johnny Gaudrea or Shea Weber
be the team that traded a pretty good player and gets a Hart Trophy candidate back (i guess that did happen once with Pronger)
be the team that traded for draft picks and draft Barzal
I can't take these disappointments much longer. Please! Please! hockey Gods. can just one effin thing work out!?!!??!!?
He's just one of the edmonton journal writers for the Oilers that tends to be an ass kissing praiser in regards to the management.
(Although, I also personally think GG and Yawney could be a part of the Oilers coaching staff) Especially with Stauffer yammering about Yawney.
He writes for Staples' Cult of Hockey blog and hears some things. I think he's just guessing who the assistants will be in that tweet though.
Is this Leavins fellow a fairly reliable source? I had never heard of him until your post.
GG actually did pretty decently with a not so great team in Calgary. They are overrated defensively and certainly don't have a lot to work with outside of a good top line offensively.
Not saying GG is a great coach... but I think he has a right to be pissed at being fired seeing as the team did about as well as you could have expected them to over the past 2 years considering the roster they have.
What does the tweet say? It won't load for me
They made the playoffs the previous season and traded for Hamonic so, rightfully so, it was playoffs or bust for them.
That's what you call accountability, unlike the organization up north that finished bottom 10 two out of three McDavid seasons and is still evaluating.
Anyway, still wondering why there's no rumors of them being after a PP coach. If I was Chia, I would tell Mclellan that either Woodcroft goes or you go.