Management Travis Green [Head Coach]

[Sens Vader]

This organization sure loves to shit on its fans haha

 

[Gil Gunderson]

I refuse be to believe Travis f***ing Green had the leverage to demand a 4-year deal.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

We got our guy!

Brutal. Absolutely brutal.

I've been nice but this is pathetic. You get what you pay for in coaches and they'll roll back the worst goaltending in the league for 5 mil instead of a buyout, but not put money into a coach.

We've seen this before. Quite frankly, if this is already rearing its head, we should all give up now. There is no hope for a budget team winning. None at all and it's a gigantic waste of everyone's time other than maybe some light entertainment..

 

[Samboni]

I don’t get this hiring! I was hoping for someone with a winning pedigree.

 

[Speatleysson]

We still have a cheap owner.. nothing has changed. This franchise will always be mediocre at best.

 

[coladin]

Brutal. Absolutely brutal.

I've been nice but this is pathetic. You get what you pay for in coaches and they'll roll back the worst goaltending in the league for 5 mil instead of a buyout, but not put money into a coach.

We've seen this before. Quite frankly, if this is already rearing its head, we should all give up now. There is no hope for a budget team winning. None at all and it's a gigantic waste of everyone's time other than maybe some light entertainment..

Agreed.

"Best in Class My Ass" is the new slogan for us

 

[Gil Gunderson]

What about Evason, was he also too expensive? Why didn’t they wait to see what happens with Keefe?

Was Green so in-demand they had to pounce on it?

 

[jbeck5]

How long before players start requesting a trade?

This can't be good.

 

[Senator Stanley]

Friedman being extremely diplomatic about the Senators decision making and Green's losing record.

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[jbeck5]

Everyone, go look on the main board to see what other organizations fans think of green.

Surely we sens fans must be exaggerating how bad he is.

Other fans must have been able to see some of the positive of green right??

Let's have a look-see.

 

[Alex1234]

Of f*** I hadn't even seen this. Things just keep getting worse.

Are we so shitty as an org that we have to offer third-rate coaches this much term to get them here?

Julien wanted to come here

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Coulda had Roy

Man…

 

[Senscore]

Julien wanted to come here

We can talk about rumours of who did or didn't want to come here but we can factually say Julien was interested in the job, and the team instead chose to give Green a 4 year deal.

Ridiculous.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Agreed.

"Best in Class My Ass" is the new slogan for us

I'm so disappointed. All these years waiting and it starts out with a giant f***ing thud.

I'm even open to the idea that this could work out, but to already see the $'s being a major issue, it tells me they have no chance of ever winning anything. Budget teams don't win, simple as that.

 

[Mark Stones Spleen]

I don't think we're fixing the goaltending issue, so I wanted a coach that could protect Korpi as much as possible. Evason could have done that, I'm not sure Green's teams have been defensive enough to make up for suboptimal goalies.

 

[MarkStone]

We got our guy!

Our former false dawn franchise goaltender was right, ya just gotta laugh....

 

[ottawagm]

I read from this that we will likely be moving Tkachuk and Norris before their NTC kick in, and resetting the window by 2-3 years.

I'm OK if we went cheap because we have no plans of making the playoffs for a while either way.

I'm not OK with having no plans to make the playoffs.

 

[PlayOn]

Everyone, go look on the main board to see what other organizations fans think of green.

Surely we sens fans must be exaggerating how bad he is.

Other fans must have been able to see some of the positive of green right??

Let's have a look-see.

Group think is a very real thing. So is looking up stats on hockeydb.

I love hockey and I watch as much as I have time for, which changes at various points of the year. But I can’t sit here and say I can do any type of thorough analysis on all the coaches that have run an NHL bench, and I don’t think most people can.

Getting caught up in what other people think, or thinking that popular opinions are always valid, is silly in any area of life.

 

[flyingfingers]

Friedman being extremely diplomatic about the Senators decision making and Green's losing record.

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To quote what he says:

"I do think they went pretty far down the line with Craig Berube, and whether it was because Berube felt there were better setups elsewhere... I do think there was some financial question about it... Berube is in a higher stratosphere. Everyone has a right to decide what their worth is, and Berube is in a stratosphere that, I just think that the Senators felt it was situation that didn't make sense for them."

This is purely my reading between the lines, but it sounds like Berube said "I'll come, but it's going to take a couple of years to shape things up so I need security and it needs to be worth my while (i.e. it starts at 5x5)".

 

[Relapsing]

Agreed.

"Best in Class My Ass" is the new slogan for us

I'm eagerly anticipating a BIC pen promo night in our near future.

 

[Senator Stanley]

It's wild how poorly the organization is controlling the message here.

They let two days pass between the story breaking and when they'll talk to the fans.

In the meantime, they issue a press release written by a ninth grader.

Meanwhile, the narrative's quickly becoming that they cheaped out on a retread loser, which is the absolute worst thing for this market to hear.

 

[Senscore]

It's wild how poorly the organization is controlling the message here.

They let two days pass between the story breaking and when they'll talk to the fans.

In the meantime, they issue a press release written by a ninth grader.

Meanwhile, the narrative's quickly becoming that they cheaped out on a retread loser, which is the absolute worst thing for this market to hear.

"Don't worry Mike, we'll land Celebrini in the lottery and everything will be fine."

 

[ottawagm]

It's wild how poorly the organization is controlling the message here.

They let two days pass between the story breaking and when they'll talk to the fans.

In the meantime, they issue a press release written by a ninth grader.

Meanwhile, the narrative's quickly becoming that they cheaped out on a retread loser, which is the absolute worst thing for this market to hear.

In the meantime, we will win the lottery tonight and they will have something else to talk about tomorrow!

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

I don't think we're fixing the goaltending issue, so I wanted a coach that could protect Korpi as much as possible. Evason could have done that, I'm not sure Green's teams have been defensive enough to make up for suboptimal goalies.

Nobody can "protect" Korpi. He's basically the worst full time goalie in the league.

 

[L'Aveuglette]

We got our guy!

Welp, there it is.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.