Maybe maybe Drury has a plan. we get Laviolette to force Panarin to want out, maybe Drury is trying to get rid of Panarin by doing this. It would be evil but very smart to get out of that Panarin contract.
Who Do You Want to be the Next Head Coach of the NY Rangers?
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Maybe maybe Drury has a plan. we get Laviolette to force Panarin to want out, maybe Drury is trying to get rid of Panarin by doing this. It would be evil but very smart to get out of that Panarin contract.
If Lavy is hired then may as well trade Kakko and Laf now
Go back and look at Roy’s first year in Colorado. He had that team really rolling quickly. He got sideways with management and it went backwards from there.
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yet the flyers were and still are trash. Lavy was forced to play the young players bc they had to rebuild
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The thing with coaches is they are just like batters in baseball. They might come into the league, show great success early on, but the league will figue them out and expose weaknesses.
they either learn to make constant smart adjustments and they become one of the better coaches in the league or they end up with a ceiling. Lavy has def had a ceiling in his last several stops. His teams have been susceptible in their own zone. The only saving grace is that maybe you get a season or two where the league figured out how to adjust to how new personnel plays under said coach.
The home run choice is a coach who can adjust. Elite talent that can produce in the playoffs is helpful too.
I’m skeptical Lavy will make sense. But what’s clear? The vet core has too much power over decisions. And Drury is a very uninspiring Un creative thinker. He tries to be thorough but if he can’t be his own man it doesn’t matter. All that thinking is about picking the best lipstick for the pig. He needs to be a forward thinker. He needs to create a vision and a culture and stick to it. Right now he’s just a maintenance guy at best.
they either learn to make constant smart adjustments and they become one of the better coaches in the league or they end up with a ceiling. Lavy has def had a ceiling in his last several stops. His teams have been susceptible in their own zone. The only saving grace is that maybe you get a season or two where the league figured out how to adjust to how new personnel plays under said coach.
The home run choice is a coach who can adjust. Elite talent that can produce in the playoffs is helpful too.
I’m skeptical Lavy will make sense. But what’s clear? The vet core has too much power over decisions. And Drury is a very uninspiring Un creative thinker. He tries to be thorough but if he can’t be his own man it doesn’t matter. All that thinking is about picking the best lipstick for the pig. He needs to be a forward thinker. He needs to create a vision and a culture and stick to it. Right now he’s just a maintenance guy at best.
I was working closely with the Flyers when Laviolette got whacked. I was actually in the building the day there were emergency meetings going on. I was told by my contacts that management knew from the moment camp opened that they were in trouble. I think Lavy lasted three games Into the season.
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Any chance you can get word of this to Drury before he makes this mistake?
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It was also the only year he got good goaltending. Varlamov was a top 5 goalie that year.
I would think that the unenthusiastic response towards Laviolette is reaching the Rangers front office and ownership. They listen and they have people listening.
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They shouldn't be listening to us. They should know more and know what's better
It was a season where they got good goaltending and his crack head decisions worked out despite being incredibly stupid.
Look at what happened to them in the seasons after. Avs literally went from one rebuild right into the next one and he had a hand in that
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From experience, that is correct but public opinion is part of the equation. Perhaps bigger than you realize.
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the vocal majority hates everything they do that never stops them
and seriously which one of these candidates is going to get a positive response from us? its a bunch of unknowns and one retread who isnt all that exciting but safe
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obviously it’s not finalized yet but hitching your wagon to a guy who’s biggest claim to fame is winning a cup almost 20 years ago just…..doesn’t get me going lol
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Hey Chris, don't hire Laviolette. Thanks!
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I appreciate your past experience and insight but I will say I wish they would listen to the rebuild crowd a little more than the win now crowd
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It all starts with the conductor of the orchestra, Dolan. Because of him, we’re like an elementary class learning our instruments.
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If only they heard us before we took McIlrath and Kravtsov...
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Just trying to be positive. But they did have some darn good young players. Giroux, Simmonds, Voracek, Couturier. 3 of those guys were the top 3 in scoring on the team in his last year coaching there. Shortened season due to lockout.
The year prior with Jagr, Hartnell, and Briere on the team, Goroux, Simmonds, and Voracek were still in the top 5 scoring on the team.
I don't want Laviolette to be the coach, but, looking for a positive, it would be that while he was with Philly he did get production out of his top young forwards. It took Couturier a little longer to figure it out and Laviolette was gone by then.
I'd still go with Leach.
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Lavi would be a really good hire
Hes one of 4 coaches in the history of the nhl to take 3 separate franchises to cups. Its not just a coincidence. Guy can coach
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Nobody knows who is going to do well as a coach or who isn't. It's all a toss up. Everyone on here acts like they know but nobody does. There's so much revisionist history when it comes to NHL coaches it's nauseating. Right now Jon Cooper is the "guy" but in a few seasons when the Lightning's fortunes turn south (which may already be happening) he will be kicked to the curb and thrown onto the carousel until it's his time to spin off it completely just like the rest of them.
I'm old enough to remember when posters on this board would have given their first born child to have Dan Bylsma be the coach of the Rangers just because he was smart enough to yell "87" a lot during games and seemed like a nice guy on that HBO special. Now he coaches at Coachella.
Look at the list of Jack Adams winners. It's a coaching graveyard.
21-22 - Darryl Sutter - unemployed
20-21 - Brind'Amour
2019-20 - Bruce Cassidy - just **** the bed in the first round after the greatest regular season of all time
2018-2019 - Barry Trotz - no longer coaching
2017-2018 - Gerard Gallant - unemployed
2016-2017 - John Tortorella - unemployed
2015-2016 - Barry Trotz - no longer coaching
2014-2015 - Bob Hartley - unemployed
2013-2014 - Patrick Roy - not an NHL coach
2012-2013 - Paul MacLean - assistant coach
2011-2012 - Ken Hitchcock - unemployed
2010-2011 - Dan Bylsma - Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
In what other sport do people who are regarded as the "best" at their position so frequently fail to hold onto said positions?
If coaching actually matters in the NHL (which I'm skeptical of) we, the public, are not in possession of enough information to accurately determine who is actually good at it or not.
Sorry to break your hearts.
I'm old enough to remember when posters on this board would have given their first born child to have Dan Bylsma be the coach of the Rangers just because he was smart enough to yell "87" a lot during games and seemed like a nice guy on that HBO special. Now he coaches at Coachella.
Look at the list of Jack Adams winners. It's a coaching graveyard.
21-22 - Darryl Sutter - unemployed
20-21 - Brind'Amour
2019-20 - Bruce Cassidy - just **** the bed in the first round after the greatest regular season of all time
2018-2019 - Barry Trotz - no longer coaching
2017-2018 - Gerard Gallant - unemployed
2016-2017 - John Tortorella - unemployed
2015-2016 - Barry Trotz - no longer coaching
2014-2015 - Bob Hartley - unemployed
2013-2014 - Patrick Roy - not an NHL coach
2012-2013 - Paul MacLean - assistant coach
2011-2012 - Ken Hitchcock - unemployed
2010-2011 - Dan Bylsma - Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
In what other sport do people who are regarded as the "best" at their position so frequently fail to hold onto said positions?
If coaching actually matters in the NHL (which I'm skeptical of) we, the public, are not in possession of enough information to accurately determine who is actually good at it or not.
Sorry to break your hearts.
He’d be a huge upgrade from Gallant and Quinn and my concern is this. The roster. He always had skilled heavy teams that play a physical style of hockey. How will it work with a finesse soft team. Maybe Kreider will play a lot heavier now. As long as he still money in front of the net. Has Laviolette ever coached a roster one dimensional and just finesse style of hockey.
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