eviohh26
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Hard to tell how good or bad Green was in Vancouver. Few things though. Team never got any better. Players really never took the next step. And the team seemed to tune him out. So it was probably pretty bad.
If it weren't for Markstrom, he would have never gotten a sniff in the NHL. Markstrom passed through waivers in 2014-15, where Travis rode him to the finals benching young players over 35 year old vets. After Markstrom got to the NHL, Demko fell into his lap in Utica.
Green has a losing record with the Canucks, I can't even imagine how much worse his record would have been without Markstrom or Demko. Ian Clarke saved Benning and Green's jobs for years. That guy deserves a statue.
The bubble also bought him some time when the Canucks had Markstrom/Demko/Boeser/Hughes/Tanev/Pettersson/Miller/Toffoli/Horvat. Also, Markstrom was amazing during that playoff run in the bubble. Demko also took the Canucks to 7 games vs the Knights, putting in a 0.64 GAA and .985 save percentage in 4 games vs the Knights.
If it's frugality, they could have hired the many ahl or college first timers. They set their sights on Green, for some unknown reason.Sens ownership needs to overpay for talent (management or players) because its not a location at the top of many peoples list. Unfortunately in this hiring the Sens decided to be frugal.
John Hynes already getting prepared for the interviewI would like to wish the Sens good luck on their inevitable summer of 2026 new coaching search
Jeff Blashill and Derek Lalonde, don’t scream top of the line hires either.so sick of Canadian teams sometimes. You never see Detroit, Chicago, NYR deliberately choose bad management and coaches like this.
Well blashill was supposedly the best coach outside the NHL and lalonde is hamstrung by his gmJeff Blashill and Derek Lalonde, don’t scream top of the line hires either.
Jeff Blashill and Derek Lalonde, don’t scream top of the line hires either.
Hard to tell how good or bad Green was in Vancouver. Few things though. Team never got any better. Players really never took the next step. And the team seemed to tune him out. So it was probably pretty bad.
Meh, I’ve seen this before. Sens make a questionable hiring/signing, media comes out in full force to cope with it. It just sucks.Hearing interviews and insights into how Green coaches and runs his team make me a tad more optimistic that he can have success in ottawa.
At least playing for hard coach will show us if the core of this team are made of stern stuff.
I still don't like the move... but at least he seems like the right kind of coach. Just not the right one.
This is the only sane response to 99.9% of what happens in the NHL.Whatever, hockey is stupid anyway
I hope he’s still brought in as an associate coach. Andlauer still loves him and he was on the staff of some very good defensive teams in NYI and Boston. Guess we’ll find out tomorrow.So, what happened to John Gruden? Multiple sources made it sound like he was a modest to strong candidate for the position.
And he mentioned recently that he would be interested in returning to coaching.Not only that, Claude Julien can easily drive to the arena. He would've been an improvement too.