What do you think should happen with Derek Lalonde?

[AtlantaHotWings]

If you wave bye-bye to Uncle Fester ....

You promote from within to finish season? If so isn't that just keeping things at status quo?

Go after ....?
Choices are limited .... Q?, Boudreau?

Might be best to hope SY has a nasty heart to heart with Fester and sets his arse on fire ....

 

[Dotter]

If you wave bye-bye to Uncle Fester ....

You promote from within to finish season? If so isn't that just keeping things at status quo?

Go after ....?
Choices are limited .... Q?, Boudreau?

Might be best to hope SY has a nasty heart to heart with Fester and sets his arse on fire ....

Laldone lost the team, so a nasty heart to heart is useless. Promoting within? Nope. That's more of the same. Maybe Draper can coach and get him out of the scouting role.

 

[RRhoads]

Hoping for a press conference at 3PM

 

[Al48]

Quenneville please.

 

[Euro Twins]

The roster isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I firmly believe with the right coach we have a top 15 d. Maybe top 20. I was a big advocate of keeping Lalonde as the team got better last year and just missed the playoffs.

However as we've seen, the team crumbles under pressure, there's no system just dump and hope hockey. Whenever they have a 1-2 goal lead they just turtle and look lost and lose the lead.

Lalondes post game pressers can be summed up to basically we had some good looks and bad luck it's a long season trust the process.

We need a coach that will light a fire under these guys. Were already a quarter way through the season. Unless we're tanking for one more pick it's time to make the change.

 

[Al48]

Wings just got outshot 104-63 and took 1 of a possible 6 points on the three Cali road trip which included two of the worst NHL teams. This is a coaching issue.

 

[Winger98]

Laldone lost the team, so a nasty heart to heart is useless. Promoting within? Nope. That's more of the same. Maybe Draper can coach and get him out of the scouting role.

I don't think Boughner would try to use Lalonde's system or be more of the same. Boogie would make a lot of sense if we promote from within for an interim coach before picking a guy over the summer.

 

[Winger98]

watching locked on red wings here (best DRW podcast i think) n made interesting point. Roster construction aint match Lalonda's "system"

That's on the coach, too, imo. You know the group you have, you have to play to that.

But on that point he might have been doing that the first ten games where we collapsed down, limited chances while hemorrhaging shots, and leaned on winning as low event games as possible. We've seen them open up since then, and it hasn't gotten better.

 

[cvaicunas]

So we're looking for a bald, former goalie. So naturally Darren Pang's phone will be ringing this morning

 

[SantosHalper]

Yeah, Fester has lost the locker room. He's done. Question now is....

- Do we go with interim coach, Boughner and see who becomes available during the season/after the season and hire the new guy after the season.

Or

- Do we risk it and sign Todd McLellan now, whos gonna want this season + 3 years contract and not wait who else gets available.
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I would hate to give up at this point of the season, giving up now would be that loser mentality what we been trying to avoid. McLellan also is not the coach whom i would want, the other Todd, Todd Nelson is who i would hire but we would have to wait until offseason to get him. But McLellan might have one good project left in him. I just hope Wings stay away from Q/Hartley/BruceB/ClaudeJulien-types.

 

[Rzombo4 prez]

Would Yzerman be interested in another bald coach if Montgomery gets sacked by Boston soon?

f*** yeah