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I will say that reading up on Nelson his resume is pretty impressive. AHL coach of the year this year, two Calder Cups etc.

I think he’s a lot more qualified than our previous coaches with no NHL experience, or even Gruden for that matter.
 
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I will say that reading up on Nelson his resume is pretty impressive. AHL coach of the year this year, two Calder Cups etc.

I think he’s a lot more qualified than our previous coaches with no NHL experience, or even Gruden for that matter.
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Technically he has a season as NHL HC over in Edmonton, well most of a season, after Eakins got fired.
 
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Rod the Bod if he becomes available (but he'd be so high in demand that I'd actually see a team unexpectedly fire their coach just to hire him.

Evason out of the guys who are currently available please.
 
Head Coach - Todd McLellan
Ass. Coach - Dave Hakstol
Ass. Coach - Brad Shaw
 
Todd Nelson coached the Oilers so Staois would know him well. Players coach, players love him and big chunk of the Oilers locker room wanted him back after his part season. Winner, from Prince Albert which means something. Has a bit of a Dad in Vegas vibe.

He’s going to be the next Bruce Boudreau without the white stuff around his lips. AHL winner who can do it in the NHL

Also makes sense because of the timing, Hershey in the playoffs and all.

If Todd Nelson is the guy, I’m all in.
 
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Tuna99 said:
Todd Nelson coached the Oilers so Staois would know him well. Players coach, players love him and big chunk of the Oilers locker room wanted him back after his part season. Winner, from Prince Albert which means something. Has a bit of a Dad in Vegas vibe.

He’s going to be the next Bruce Boudreau without the white stuff around his lips. AHL winner who can do it in the NHL

Also makes sense because of the timing, Hershey in the playoffs and all.

If Todd Nelson is the guy, I’m all in.
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Staios was in Toronto when Nelson coached the oilers
 
If Todd Nelson is the guy then that's just disappointing. It would be yet another coach who has done absolutely nothing at the NHL level. Just like DJ, just like Boucher, just like Cameron, just like MacLean. It's kind of ridiculous the last time we hired a coach with a strong NHL reputation is Bryan Murray.
 
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If Todd Nelson is the guy then that's just disappointing. It would be yet another coach who has done absolutely nothing at the NHL level. Just like DJ, just like Boucher, just like Cameron, just like MacLean. It's kind of ridiculous the last time we hired a coach with a strong NHL reputation is Bryan Murray.
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I don’t think it makes much sense for Staios to carry the baggage of the previous regime into this coaching hire.

I think experience is a plus and should be a factor, but it shouldn’t automatically disqualify anyone else.
 
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Staios was in Toronto when Nelson coached the oilers
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True but simply by definition he would know his coaching by working for Toronto and knowing NHL things, his best friends are all through that Edmonton world - Nelson also coached lots of current players like RNH, Hall etc so Staois would have a good review of his coaching from current star players and franchise defining guys
 
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PlayOn said:
I don’t think it makes much sense for Staios to carry the baggage of the previous regime into this coaching hire.

I think experience is a plus and should be a factor, but it shouldn’t automatically disqualify anyone else.
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To add to this, Berube, Evason etc just don’t get me that excited. I don’t think they have a magic formula, I think the most important thing is the right coach not the most experienced one (and a goalie)
 
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As a fan it’s really hard to determine who is the best coach available. Is it possible the best coach in the league is on the last place team and the worst coach on the champs? I'd think that's possible. But it’s very difficult for us to know who is best to take a young team and develop it to contender status. They would have to share their plan and thinking. We'd have to have a measure of the man.

But all we have to go on as fans is how much experience do they have. So we look at the experience and winning records of each coach and think the most experience with the best team records is the obvious choice. What other metric can we use? But I would hope smart management would be more diligent and selective than that.

Looking at the best coaches available right now, are any of them likely to choose a last place team or are they more likely to choose a team best set to win. And then afterwards, when they are fired, we will all look at their record and say -yeah we need that coach.

It was often the coach that was on a team that had the greatest change in standings position from the previous year that is awarded the Jack Adams. Then the next year he is fired. Maybe the record isn’t so meaningful when judging coaches. But i dont know what else to use.
 
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PlayOn said:
I don’t think it makes much sense for Staios to carry the baggage of the previous regime into this coaching hire.

I think experience is a plus and should be a factor, but it shouldn’t automatically disqualify anyone else.
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His boss is carrying the baggage from his junior hockey team, so this wouldn't be too unusual.
 
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