Speculation: Who's the next coach?

[RRhoads]

I want Larionov next season. We would get to watch som beautiful hockey. He is great with kids too.

 

[HoweFan]

Wasn’t it Quenneville that Joey Kocur wanted to rip his heart out on the bench a few years back? No for Quenneville. Yes for Larionov

 

[norrisnick]

Wasn’t it Quenneville that Joey Kocur wanted to rip his heart out on the bench a few years back? No for Quenneville. Yes for Larionov

 

[Oddbob]

Do we really need anymore first time NHL coaches, or a for sure Wing tie? Been done to death, it is time to try fresh outsider ideas. I don't really like that Yzerman seems only interested in people he knows, because that doesn't make them good at what they do. I already worry about that with Draper, who I like, but not sure he is the right guy thus far to be so far up in the scouting hierarchy.

I get why you want people you are comfortable with, but end of the day we should be trying to win, not finding the most comfortable person to have here.

 

[KJoe88]

Who was that Euro coach some of us speculated was on the running before Lolonde was hired?

Dude with the nice wavy hair? Swedish? Finnish?

Anyways what’s he up to nowadays?

Don’t mind me; I’ve had a few drinks on a lonely Halloween night wishing the best for this team.

 

[Oddbob]

Who was that Euro coach some of us speculated was on the running before Lolonde was hired?

Dude with the nice wavy hair? Swedish? Finnish?

Anyways what’s he up to nowadays?

Don’t mind me; I’ve had a few drinks on a lonely Halloween night wishing the best for this team.

We only hire bald or balding coaches nowadays.

 

[KJoe88]

We only hire bald or balding coaches nowadays.

You know what?

That’s might the issue to all of our problems.

 

[norrisnick]

Need good flow for a coaching style that flows. Or something...

??

 

[Lampedampe]

We only hire bald or balding coaches nowadays.

Ah so that's how the team has choosen to distance itself from Babcock.

Say what you will of the man, but he has a great head of hair, not just for his age.

 

[Lampedampe]

I think the team is in a weird spot, since we're probably 2 years away from truly competing. You can just roll with it and try another rookie coach, in hopes of it working out, worst case you get a couple more high draft picks.

If you're afraid of loser-mentality setting in, you gotta go for a experienced coach that can motivate the guys. If this team can be motivated and play a better system i think it's a bubble team. Downside is that guys like Gallant, who fits that bill seems to get run out of town every 2 years, so it's not a longterm solution.

 

[Mike C]

Dark horse might be Lane Lambert. Was linked strongly to job before Islanders hired him. Some felt at the time that NY fired Trotz so Lane wouldn't bolt for Wings. The way the team sucks under Roy lends credence that maybe Handsone Lane wasn't the issue in NY

 

[dalem177]

 

[Ulysses31]

bring back badcock

 

[Henkka]

I would consider Rickard Grönborg from Finland.

Swedish native but more North-American than many will understand.

Who could be a better fit for this Yzerman-built Team Michigan-Sweden?

He is not bald and has huge beard.

 

[Winger98]

Campbell has that team playing with energy and a killer instinct, absolutely, and he deserves every bit of praise he's getting. But GM Brad Holmes has been killing it with his draft and signings. He's injected the right talent, often elite talent, into every position required and is taking bold swings that are paying off. Conventional wisdom said the team didn't need Gibbs and Montgomery but here we are, with the Lions dominating the run game and having two guys fresh and pounding at every phase of the game. Brilliant.

Unfortunately due to the molasses nature of hockey drafting, guaranteed and long contracts for anyone remotely good, and usually meh free agency there hasn't been that kind of immediate impact for the Red Wings. Overall I've liked the steady hand and drafting of Yzerman, I see the vision, but the free agency and trades have been a mixed bag at best so we're left with a middling roster that will steal games here and there but ultimately needs the high draft picks to hit, and hit hard, or else we're going to be cycling coaches for the next decade.

The Lions didn't just get a coach with a great gameplan and attitude, they also rebuilt core components of their team in the span of a few years which is entirely possible in the NFL and dreadfully, boringly not possible in the NHL.

Honestly the older I get, the more I dislike the incredibly slow build of teams in the NHL. Without one of two significant draft gifts, McDavid or McKinnon level, you're staring down the barrel at 10 years of "We're building something!" games rather than believing you can actually get hot and win the whole damn thing.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but this is my long-winded way of saying I'm not sure cycling coaches is going to do much for this Red Wings team other than give us something new to talk about.

it would explain a lot if people are taking their beliefs about organization building from the NFL and transposing them on the NHL before complaining about the state of the Wings rebuild.

 

[Indrid Cold]

I would consider Rickard Grönborg from Finland.

Swedish native but more North-American than many will understand.

Who could be a better fit for this Yzerman-built Team Michigan-Sweden?

He is not bald and has huge beard.

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Sold! Fire Lalonde now!

 

[KJoe88]

I would consider Rickard Grönborg from Finland.

Swedish native but more North-American than many will understand.

Who could be a better fit for this Yzerman-built Team Michigan-Sweden?

He is not bald and has huge beard.

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That’s him.