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Speculation: Who Will Be Our Next Coach ?

Our Next Head Coach will be ?

  • Manny Malholtra

    Votes: 56 66.7%

  • Mike Sullivan

    Votes: 13 15.5%

  • David Carle

    Votes: 7 8.3%

  • Jay Woodcroft

    Votes: 7 8.3%

  • Peter Laviolette

    Votes: 12 14.3%

  • Gerard Gallant

    Votes: 17 20.2%

  • Marco Sturm

    Votes: 3 3.6%

  • Joel Quenneville

    Votes: 3 3.6%
  • Total voters
    84
i like gerard gallent hard ass coach loves to play offense when he coached the panthers/knights/rangers. 2nd choice jay woodcroft. deserves a second chance he is a good coach too. 3rd option go the european route/ncaa. i dont want them to hire in the system that is such a "easy way out". maybe malhotra as an assistant for a year or two. dan byslma ?
 
David71 said:
i like gerard gallent hard ass coach loves to play offense when he coached the panthers/knights/rangers. 2nd choice jay woodcroft. deserves a second chance he is a good coach too. 3rd option go the european route/ncaa. i dont want them to hire in the system that is such a "easy way out". maybe malhotra as an assistant for a year or two. dan byslma ?
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What’s an ass coach
(I’m incredibly bored don’t block me pls)
 
Interested in David Carle. Too young? Different level for sure, but really liked what he did with USA at the WJC.
 
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Joe Rogan said:
In order of preference:
1. Quenneville
2. Todd Nelson
3. Malhotra
4. Woodcroft

Quenneville has served his time and if he has rehabilitated and learned, he should be the next coach. Choosing a vastly inferior candidate in a results-based business due to something that happened 15 years ago is a loser mentality.
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I would go with Malhotra. He hasn’t head coached an NHL team before, but even as a player he was a well respected leader. And I think a lot of Rutherford’s criteria hinted at Malhotra possibly being their guy.
 
Burke's Evil Spirit said:
I've always been a fan of Laviolette. He's been solid everywhere, and I don't blame him at all for the disaster in New York this year. Rutherford connection too.

Laviolette, Gallant, Todd Nelson, Jeremy Colliton, Mike Yeo, Jay Woodcroft ... all names I could live with.
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Maybe too much recency bias on my end but the Rangers looked awful this year, and even last year they looked like a team that should have gotten better results than they did. He’s in the “ok” bucket for me.
 
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me2 said:
Gallant seems to be a good coach but a short shelf-life coach. It's he hard on players? Will that discourage Hughes from re-signing? How does petterson react?
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I did a bit of a review of his past firings and the reporting suggests he's actually a players coach but can struggle with the x's and o's.

The Florida firing was a crap show so that can't be held against him. He did amazing things in his first season in Vegas but it seems the team struggled with consistency after that. When he was fired from the Rangers, the complaint was that he didn't adjust tactics in the playoffs, but that came from Drury and was funnelled through Larry Brooks. Given the performance of the Rangers since he left, you have to question their decision making. It was confirmed that he butted heads with Chris Drury which may have been the real reason for his firing.

Given this reporting though, I don't think a management group that is obsessed with "structure" would hire him. However, he could be the short term tonic this team needs. If he was paired with assistant coaches who are good at systems, you could potentially make up for his shortcomings. The real reason that he probably hasn't gotten another job is the aforementioned friction with Drury - a coach that will stand his ground is a risk that GM's don't want.
 
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Mr. Canucklehead said:
I would go with Malhotra. He hasn’t head coached an NHL team before, but even as a player he was a well respected leader. And I think a lot of Rutherford’s criteria hinted at Malhotra possibly being their guy.
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I have no problem with Manny getting the nod here. He knows the game, he has a ton of credibility and is as resilient as they come. He's been in a lot of NHL rooms over his career, been a high draft pick who's role had to be carved out because the offense never materialized. Had to come to terms with a devastating career ending injury at the the worst imaginable time. He's been an OHL champion (lost memorial cup finals in OT), Won the Calder cup in 2000.

2011 :(

Can he manage a room of NHL ego's is the obvious question and you never really know until they do it. One thing about going with a rookie head coach, after an unimaginably difficult year and what will probably be a summer of significant turnover, is the opportunity for the captain to elevate his voice in the room. Might deepen the bond between Hughes and the organization.
 
A huge value I see with Malhotra is his connection to the Sedins. They are just generally good people and the team has an absence of that. They are also smart, hard working, and are respectful to the media and the fans. They have taken the same slow, mindful approach with their player development roles that they employed to become superstars in the league, and I have faith they could replicate that in a more prominent role.

I suspect the fact that they have children has limited their involvement, particularly with travel, but their kids are teens now and that should become less of an issue.
 
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Jyrki21 said:
Like many others I suspect they'll go the easy route and just name Malhotra. But the other guy I suspect would get a lot of consideration (and doesn't have much of a record for people to attack) is Woodcroft.
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Malhotra deserves his shot on the merits. We can thank him for the farm team over performing as a group, but he has also helped so many individual players on that team take huge steps and look like they could provide the Canucks a quality pipeline.

If it's not with the Canucks, it will be with another team when his contract expires. No other member of the organization has performed to the level he has this season.
 
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Vector said:
I’m working on an article about this.

We already have been told that Sullivan won’t come out West and David Carle is, reportedly, staying in the NCAA.
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Was researching a list:

RodBrind'Amour - If he gets fired
Don Granato
Sheldon Keefe
Lane Lambert
DJ Smith
Jay Woodcroft
Dave Hakstol
Dean Evason
David Quinn
Gerard Gallant
Claude Julien - STL is spoiled with coaching talent (Montgomery is HC)
Mike Yeo
Dallas Eakins
Jeff Blashill
Phil Housley
Kevin Dineen
Jeremy Colliton
Brad Shaw
Treny Yawney
Joe Sacco
Kirk Muller
Todd Reirden
Geoff Ward
Davis Payne
Jay Leach
Ryan Warsofsky
Marc Savard
Dan Bylsma
Karl Taylor
Todd Nelson
Marco Sturm
John Gruden
JD Forrest
Seth Appert
Jack Capuano
Scott Gordon
Bob Boughner
Guy Boucher
Todd Richards
John Stevens
Glen Gulutzan
Manny Malhotra
Steve McCarthy
Jeff Halpern
Dan Hinote
John Madden
Cory Stillman
Mike Van Ryan
Mike Vellucci
Joel Ward
Jay Pandolfo
Rikard Gronborg
David Carle
Jason Payne
Joel Martin
Sergei Fedorov
Jon Cooper - If he gets let go
Mike Sullivan
 
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As much as I like him, I feel like Malhotra might be the wrong fit for this group right now? If we were a young team expected to grow together and learn from mistakes - I'd be 100% in favor. We're not that team though - we have like 2 years to sort our shit out or Hughes is likely gone.
 
drax0s said:
As much as I like him, I feel like Malhotra might be the wrong fit for this group right now? If we were a young team expected to grow together and learn from mistakes - I'd be 100% in favor. We're not that team though - we have like 2 years to sort our shit out or Hughes is likely gone.
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Im actually the opposite of this

My feeling is that hiring from within and showing that we are wanting accountability and promotion to people players coaches trainers who do the ground work here will show more commitment to the Logo and organization as a whole which in turn should appeal to players like Hughes Pettersson Demko Boeser? Hoglander DPetey etc that were drafted and developed here.

Forget the fossils like Laviolette Gallant etc. Malhotra has done his apprenticeship. Sure maybe a little more time might have been ideal but he's 44 and was a on ice leader as a player. In the NFL they hire much younger coaches with zero issues.

Other pluses is he was always in fantastic condition looks like he still is and will demand the same

Familiarity and communications should be seamless

Was a tactician as a player. I'm sure that will spill over as a coach. It certainly has with Abby.

He's not gonna wait that long to be hired as we come out of a rebuild nor should you be planning to put that burden on him if we do end up having to

Hire Manny he's the right guy.
 
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