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Coach Parker said:
Yeah, or his assistant coach?

TBH, I wouldn't take him back but it's always funny to see former coaches of Boston excel in other spots. He pushed the Presidents' Trophy winners to 2OT game 7.
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This is his third franchise to lose a game seven in OT, two at home and I’m pretty sure there was a late third period lead for all three.

That there is a weave in the pattern bucks.
 
McGarnagle said:
It's strange to me that Sully got fired and was in New York the same day, whereas the season ended weeks ago and the Bruins haven't even interviewed anyone yet or been linked publicly to anyone. Do they have their eyes on someone who is still behind a bench in the playoffs (head or assistant, or even AHL playoffs)?
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Stuff doesn’t leak from this franchise, people never seem to learn.
 
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Gee Wally said:
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Honestly, that's a good call on his part. I don't know why any coach would want to coach in the NHL. The average NHL coach lasts 2.3 years. Just doesn't seem like much of a life, moving all the time, uprooting all your loved ones over and over. Yeah, you get to coach the best players in the world, but Carle gets to coach the best players in the world for their age at the World Juniors. As a college coach, he can make hundreds of thousands of dollars, be part of a community, watch his kids grow up, and run a program for 10 or 20 years if he chooses.
 
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Coach Parker said:
Really brings the focus back to beating out Pittsburgh and Philly for Tocchett's services then.
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Meh.
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Coach Parker said:
Not a fan? Maybe I'm biased seeing what he was able to do with this Vancouver roster.

This is also a coached well-liked by them all while also holding them accountable. That's a tough line to walk.
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Tocchet might be the only established coach I'm interested in but you can't deny he hasn't had a great deal of of success as an NHL head coach. 9 seasons he's got 2 playoff appearances and 1 round win.

Friedman thinks Tocchet just goes back to doing TV.
 
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PlayMakers said:
You change how the team plays. You move away from what got you the lead, and switch to something you think will help you hold the lead, only instead you ended up playing without the puck for most of the final 5 and the other team eventually breaks through.
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I don't think coaches do that.

Anyway, in this case it was two 6 on 5 goals.

All on the players.
 
BruinDust said:
Tocchet might be the only established coach I'm interested in but you can't deny he hasn't had a great deal of of success as an NHL head coach. 9 seasons he's got 2 playoff appearances and 1 round win.

Friedman thinks Tocchet just goes back to doing TV.
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Yeah, I see that and if I didn't watch his last team so much I'd agree. To see how gutted the fanbase and players are that he's leaving is just another testament to how good he was the last two years.

He'll get the best out of the former Canucks and a lot of the D.
 
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PlayMakers said:
He was an assistant coach in Dallas and Edmonton and has won back to back championships in the AHL. He's actually won 3 AHL championships in his last 4 years coaching at that level.

He's 143-53-22 in his last 3 years in the AHL, that's a .713 win percent. To put that in NHL terms, that would be three consecutive 117 point seasons.
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The numbers are impressive, and I am not trying to be a a-hole, but what type of talent was he coaching.
 
Coach Parker said:
Not a fan? Maybe I'm biased seeing what he was able to do with this Vancouver roster.

This is also a coached well-liked by them all while also holding them accountable. That's a tough line to walk.
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That his coaching record isn’t great all-in-all doesn’t help him for me.

But here’s where I think I differ from many: I think that Canucks roster has underachieved for the talent on it. I believe competency is what’s required behind the bench to make them a perennial playoff club. What Tocchet accomplished there isn’t necessarily impressive, considering. And that one season is his claim to fame.

That he’s liked and respected, there’s no doubt. I adored him as a player. And if he’s the choice, I hope it’s because of a philosophical fit with what management wants to do to evolve the team. It’s not an outright rejection of the idea by any means.

I wouldn’t make him the focus though. And I wouldn’t be upset if he goes to Pennsylvania.
 
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PlayMakers said:
Honestly, that's a good call on his part. I don't know why any coach would want to coach in the NHL. The average NHL coach lasts 2.3 years. Just doesn't seem like much of a life, moving all the time, uprooting all your loved ones over and over. Yeah, you get to coach the best players in the world, but Carle gets to coach the best players in the world for their age at the World Juniors. As a college coach, he can make hundreds of thousands of dollars, be part of a community, watch his kids grow up, and run a program for 10 or 20 years if he chooses.
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You make an excellent point, so many times you hear the " I have to think of my family" and then do something else, this guy is making the right move for him and his family. Money is nice, but it is not everything if you get to like you say " watch his kids grow up" and other benefits to his decision. ......... good luck to him and hope his decision works out for him, and his family.
 
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Mr. Make-Believe said:
That his coaching record isn’t great all-in-all doesn’t help him for me.

But here’s where I think I differ from many: I think that Canucks roster has underachieved for the talent on it. I believe competency is what’s required behind the bench to make them a perennial playoff club. What Tocchet accomplished there isn’t necessarily impressive, considering. And that one season is his claim to fame.

That he’s liked and respected, there’s no doubt. I adored him as a player. And if he’s the choice, I hope it’s because of a philosophical fit with what management wants to do to evolve the team. It’s not an outright rejection of the idea by any means.

I wouldn’t make him the focus though. And I wouldn’t be upset if he goes to Pennsylvania.
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Fair enough. Outside of Cooper, I have been underwhelmed with anyone outside of Tocchett and...Quenneville.

Bylsma just seems to me like Sullivan; a product of a strongly built team, and Boston is certainly not that.
 
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GordonHowe said:
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This notion that the Bruins “lost out” on Sullivan seems 100% media driven / made up. There hasn’t been one credible source that said the Bruins talked to Sullivan, or interviewed Sullivan or were even interested in Sullivan. It’s all just “assumed” the Bruins would have been interested, and now it’s “assumed” we lost out.
 
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Coach Parker said:
Fair enough. Outside of Cooper, I have been underwhelmed with anyone outside of Tocchett and...Quenneville.

Bylsma just seems to me like Sullivan; a product of a strongly built team, and Boston is certainly not that.
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Yeah Cooper I obviously would have been on board for. But that doesn’t look like it’s going to be an option now.

As for the rest of it, I couldn’t agree with you more. I haven’t been on board with any of the coaches on the current carousel (Torts, Sullivan, Bylsma, Tocchet, Cronin, Whomever) and I keep hoping they go a little off-script to bring in an innovator who can help bring the Bruins to the current decade of hockey. Last time they did that (Julien) they won a Cup.

Now Claude is old-school so it’s funny-sounding to consider him a pioneer, but a lot of what he implemented in Boston went league-wide until teams found a way to counter. We need that spirit back again behind the bench.
 
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PlayMakers said:
This notion that the Bruins “lost out” on Sullivan seems 100% media driven / made up. There hasn’t been one credible source that said the Bruins talked to Sullivan, or interviewed Sullivan or were even interested in Sullivan. It’s all just “assumed” the Bruins would have been interested, and now it’s “assumed” we lost out.
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I don’t want to go off on a tangent, but isn’t this just what happens now? Doesn’t matter if the narrative is false or if what happens is entirely independent of the Bruins, it’s will be used in a way to paint the team in a “loser” light.

Like, I get it. Bruins had a bad season. Sucks. I hated it. I get pissy too and I’m not quiet in my criticism.

But we’re not the f***in’ Buffalo Sabres. This apocalypse nonsense is really tiresome and there are too many fans happily being pulled on that wagon.

Mike Sullivan to the Rangers is no loss for us. The further away we were from that idea, the more confident I am in the future of the team.
 
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Coach Parker said:
Yeah, I see that and if I didn't watch his last team so much I'd agree. To see how gutted the fanbase and players are that he's leaving is just another testament to how good he was the last two years.

He'll get the best out of the former Canucks and a lot of the D.
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I do see a fair bit of Vancouver on the 2nd half of Saturday double-headers I did like what he did Vancouver. Now there might be some bias there as well, Quinn Hughes has become my favorite non-Bruin to watch play hockey.
 
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