You say they are great yet you can't leave it at that and you go to minimize and dismiss. I'm sure that there are players who dislike him, but the core leaders of the team are all on record that they like the current administration and Therrien. Even if you don't want to trash your coach, nothing forces you to endorse him either.
I agree, I simply stated that you never have unanimity and it's rare for the disapproval part to actually come forward.
If the reporters and journalists were actually good at their jobs maybe we'd get more info. You know, like if they actually asked relevant questions instead of ''hey you scored two goals, how do you feel about it?''..
Sometimes you think it’s just excuses and outside noise, how important chemistry is, but the fact that Marc (GM Marc Bergevin) and Mike (coach Michel Therrien) have had so much success in different places, they obviously knew the type of chemistry we needed and it’s worked out really well.[/I]
I think chemistry is very important and they have done well to establish it within our group.
So we have evidence, multiple sources, team leaders but we prefer you defer to Sekac. I think this speaks for itself.
I don't prefer to defer to Sekac. He was simply an example of a player with a different opinion to prove my point. I also brought up Thornton who doesn't even play for us. That although you do hear negative comments, they are way more rare especially from big time players. I mean, everyone knows Lecavalier and Tortz had some feud, but I don't recall Vinny saying anything bad about him even while it was happening. That was just my point.
But getting support is good, no doubt.
Except that comparing Eichel's situation to Galchenyuk is disingenuous. Eichel is physically mature for his age. Chucky didn't play for an entire season and then had to come back from a major ACL injury. As for Therrien's usage of young players, I prefer to take the opinion of someone who is directly implicated and has more credibility than Smokey. See Gallagher's comments above.
Well I think Smokey was talking about Eichel's first NHL game ever to the first game of Galchenyuk's 4th season.
Really, there was absolutely no reason for Galchenyuk to play as little as he did on Wednesday.
As for Boullion and Murray - I think this goes back to the trust issue and comfort with veterans. I agree that he's slow to change this aspect - but it is getting better. You can make the same point this year - I am sure that many would rather see Pateryn play instead of Gilbert or Beaulieu elevate to 2nd pairing.
I can understand when you play veterans like Gionta who appear to have slowed down but can still be somewhat effective. Bouillon though had no business on the PP, there is no rationality behind it. I'm sure he had a reason but that doesn't mean it was a rational one. It was stupid.
Same thing with using Murray, arguably the worst Dman in the NHL, over your Norris trophy winner like he did quite a few times with under 5min left in the 3rd period. I mean, let's call a spade a spade, this was completely stupid.
I can't disagree with your assessment - but to be fair you can say the same for the majority of the best NHL coaches.
Agreed.
Just because you do not agree with the strategy it does not make him a bad coach. Therrien and Bergevin - both - share the same philosophy on team tactics - and they have been somewhat successful in implementing - I do realize that Price has a part in the success.
Well, every one here discusses their own opinion. To me, if you have a good roster who more often than not looks disorganized, a weak transition game, and regularly gets outshot or outchanced, then you have a coaching problem.
He might be an awesome coach on a psychological level and establishing good values/ethics, but structure is the most important thing imo.
So when I argue if he's a good coach or not, I'm going to look at the structure of the team.
Now, if I look at how we played the first year, and at some times during the POs, where we played a more possessive game (although our defensive structure was still mediocre) then maybe Therrien has it in him. He says he wants to play more upbeat offensive hockey, we'll see if that actually happens.
I also think that he's quite good in game situation and adjustments. He's not afraid to make adjustments. I'm not saying he's Scotty Bowman - but I don't see this as a weakness.
I'm not as convinced. Seems the only thing he can do is move players around.
