Speculation: When Does Bruno Get The Boot?

When does Trotz pull the plug on Brunette?


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ILikeItILoveIt

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They stopped executing Lavi's system...actually he just didn't really have much of a system. They consistently couldn't employ Hynes'. Outside of a quarter season stretch they haven't been able to play Bruno's. I'd rather not sandbag a whole season hoping the trend reverses over an offseason.

Get a new guy in, let him see what he has to work with (and maybe salvage some of these young guys Bruno has sidelined) and use the rest of this year to work on things for next season under actual game conditions.
Rangers seem to have picked up Lavi's system pretty well.
 

Bringer of Jollity

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Rangers seem to have picked up Lavi's system pretty well.
The same team also went 52-24-6 and 47-22-13 under Gallant, so it's not a huge stretch that they would also succeed under Lavi. Lavi is a vibes coach, he takes the underlying structure and turns it up to 11, he doesn't really have much in the way of a deep Xs and Os system/style. We'll see where they are at 2 years from now.
 

finnishflash13

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Blues won a cup by firing a coach mid season. I have a lot of family members that are blue fans and they were talking about blowing the team up because they were that bad. Then they had a coaching change and it changed directions rather quick. While we have some holes on our team this system is clearly not working with the players we have. A new coach with a new system could possibly change the teams play drastically and maybe have a little more faith in our youth
that Blues team was also in the contender/pre-season Cup pick category of teams and was underperforming to a severe degree.
 
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drwpreds

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Rangers seem to have picked up Lavi's system pretty well.

Yep- I have posted about this many times before, but it continues to amaze how no one ever seems to want to give Lavi any credit as a coach. Bring up his name on here and it will be mostly negative comments. We had the greatest success we have ever had when he was here so for me I've got nothing bad to say about him. He may have a short shelf life at any given place, I won't argue that, but sign me up for any coach who can give us anything close to the success we had during his tenure
 
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Predsanddead24

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Yep- I have posted about this many times before, but it continues to amaze how no one ever seems to want to give Lavi any credit as a coach. Bring up his name on here and it will be mostly negative comments. We had the greatest success we have ever had when he was here so for me I've got nothing bad to say about him. He may have a short shelf life at any given place, I won't argue that, but sign me up for any coach who can give us anything close to the success we had during his tenure
Yeah I've never really gotten the underselling of Lavi. You don't take three separate teams to a Cup Finals by simply being a ra-ra guy. I think his loose structure and letting players determine how to play to their own strengths is a really good approach and something we could use a lot more of right now.
 

Softball99

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No one was saying he's bad... He has a shelf life because he's a motivator with minimal Xs and Os skill who uses the same assistants to compensate
 

Porter Stoutheart

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I think Lavi to some extent sold himself as a "rah-rah" guy in the NHL... however if you ever saw him at USA Hockey symposiums and whatnot, he was definitely not just that, he had real structure and concepts he championed. Maybe it was just too bad that he chained himself to an assistant/buddy in McCarthy who wasn't all that great? Now he has Housley back again and Dan Muse too, and that Rangers team might be a Cup contender.

Anyway, I'll take Lavi over both Hynes and Bruno, thanks.
 

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