- Putting Bouillon on the PP for 2 years in a row without any kind of results and while having tons of better options.
- Putting the same actors and strategy on the PP 95% of the time for 2 years and expecting better results.
- Not putting once your 5 best offensive players on the PP at the same time (switching lines) even when the game is on the line in the PO.
- For 3 full years plus even last game : Playing Desharnais more than Galchenyuk and playing DD ahead of Galchy as your "go-to-guy" offensively and on the PP.
- Killing a very good offensive line (The EGG line) for no good reasons. Killing it was one thing, but never put it back together even if this team sucked offensively for many many stretches. Not to mention all those dumbass experiment that resulted in nothing.
- Killing the Galchenyuk experiment at center last year despite a good start....and we know the end results was that our top 2 center didn't do the job in the PO AND Galchenyuk was nowhere to be found since he got back on the wing. Lost his confidence. (And Therrien lying to the media saying it was Chucky's decision while it wasn't)
- Not giving any kind of real chances to young players not named Gallagher. Eller still never got his even in the PO where he was on fire....took Galchy 3 years to get to center. Beaulieu is still use as a bottom D. Sekac was bench first chance he get. Tinordi got no confidence. Bournival, Andrighetto, De La Rose and others has been used in situations they can't succeed.
- Playing crappy players way too much : Gonchar, Bouillon, Armstrong, Moen, Desharnais, Gionta, Emelin, Gorges, Murray, Weise, Bourque and so on.
- Accepting new players without knowing how to use them : Sekac, Briere, PAP, Weaver and even Vanek for example.
- After 3 full years, he still uses the groundwork made by Martin and Cunneyworth. There's not any new approach, no new core line-up...he just add-up from what those two coaches did.
- Still pointing fingers in his Press conference, sometimes he even trashed some on his own players (Remember Sekac and Eller last year? Or White). But on the other hand, he's never accountable for anything, never take blame and even challenge the medias when some of his bad move came up.
- Took 3 years for Plekanec to get a sniff at playing with Pacioretty cause Therrien always seems to go back for Pacioretty-DD combo, which never been a really dominant line. Productive but a long shot from being dominant.
- Doing really stupid in-games mistakes like not sending 2 center in the D-zone for a crucial face-off with 30 sec. left. Placing 3 very small players on the same line. Sending Martin St-Pierre on a crucial PP. Sending PAP on the point on the PP and he scored a goal just to never tried that again. Not taking out your goalie with 2 minutes left in the game and being down 3-1...and say publicly that it wasn't worth it...
- Unable to control his emotions. It's really easy to get inside Therrien's head. Saw it against Ottawa ('13) in the PO, saw it again against The Rangers in the PO. He can get really mad and stop coaching, we see that often.
- Having a system where player are scared to try the high risk/high rewards play, killing the creativity of some of his best players. Skilled players have to play like grinders. Young rookies have a hard times getting their confidence high. Most players that leave Therrien's team mostly all said this.
- In 3 years now, we are yet to see a top 6 line that is genuine. A top 6 line that actually is dominant. We switch lines, try some of the most unsustainable line-up like Weise on the top 6 but in the end, we never even had ONE top 6 line that we can rely on and keep together for more than 10 games. Even when we got Vanek, he wasn't able to put a dominant line.
And i can go on and on and on and on.....it's all over the place. I can go with his time in Pittsburgh when he trashed his whole defense-corps, when he prone violent retributions, how he used Ouellet.......
You should ask yourself....How a coach can go from the Stanley Cup finals to being fired 6 months later?
He was supposedly next in line in Minnesota when he got hired, but that team went with another coach when the time come.
He was on l'Anti-Chambre before getting back behind a bench....what took so long?
How a coach get to the Stanley Cup Finals, then 6 months later get fired and despite TONS of coaching changes, got unemployed for 4 years.
Therrien said it himself (and was really proud of it).....it was the first time a team actually hired him for HC job in the NHL....got all the other jobs a little by default, he said exactly that himself.
