Wild fire head coach Dean Evason, hiring John Hynes as head coach

[ItWasJustified]

 

[AKL]

John Hynes gets another shot?! Really?

He worked with Guerin in Wilkes-Barre and Shero hired him in NJ. It's just a little good old fashioned old boys club moment.

 

[Turin]

How does John Hynes keep getting work?

He's in the Ray Shero Tom Fitzgerald Bill Guerin team USA Wilkes Barre orbit of course.

 

[Satan]

Round and round we go

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Have you uh, been with this league long?

The NHL is an incompetent league from top to bottom.

Oh I know how, I just don't understand how.

 

[TheNumber4]

If the Wild fire Guerin can the Oilers have him?

 

[Docgonzo]

The NHL might be the only league where actual children and AIs would do a better job of managing teams than the people in charge.

You obviously don’t watch the nfl anymore.

 

[BLNY]

John Hynes gets another shot?! Really?

No one should be surprised by the revolving door.

 

[GKJ]

How does John Hynes keep getting work?

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Not gonna lie I'd never fire Evason, he's too intimidating and I get scared easily.

 

[tucker3434]

Based on caphit, they should be a lottery team. They overachieved last year. The wild have been at least decent for a really long time and it feels like it's just time for them to suck for a bit.

 

[AKL]

If the Wild fire Guerin can the Oilers have him?

I thought Oilers fans wanted their team to be good for once

 

[Romang67]

At least he got fired doing what he loved. Being ridiculed on HFBoards.

 

[ThatGuy22]

Shoulda given the job to Darby just for the lulz

 

[TheNumber4]

I thought Oilers fans wanted their team to be good for once

Guerin seems like he’d be a smart GM. What are the most egregious moves he’s made as the Wilds GM. Besides those cap penalties buyouts that weren’t fully his fault. What else has he done?

 

[thusk]

evason pay for lack of talent in this team...

i watched Minnesota d group before start of regular season and i had no idea how this D would be able to bring wild in playoff...Spurgeon get injured so Wild didn't had any better choice than using a rookie who had 2 NHL gameunder his belt over 23 min / game

 

[NHL1674]

Now get rid of the team's biggest problem (Guerin) and it'll be a Merry Christmas.

 

[BHD]

John f***ing Hynes. Seriously?

 

[LevelingSolo]

See it's posts like this that are comical. McLellan and Laviolette have their teams at the top of the league

Not to mention one is retired

The stigma here against "retreads" is just strange

 

[57special]

How did that $15M go down exactly? I thought those were penalties for long and illegal contracts signed by the previous GM and Guerin was left holding the bag. Or was there a way for Guerin to have avoided the penalties?

- they were not illegal contracts at the time they were signed.

- 14.7 m this year is the penalty for the team buying out Suter and Parise early.

- he could have avoided the penalties by not buying them out, or lessened them by just buying out Parise.

 

[falconski]

Why would Cale makar do this?

 

[Nstar to Wild]

evason pay for lack of talent in this team...

i watched Minnesota d group before start of regular season and i had no idea how this D would be able to bring wild in playoff...Spurgeon get injured so Wild didn't had any better choice than using a rookie who had 2 NHL gameunder his belt over 23 min / game

I pretty much agree with this overall thought.

As a Wild fan I believe Dean did a halfway decent job, with the talent on this team, getting this team into the playoffs the last couple years . I think there's quite a bit of delusional fans in MN (and on this site) who overrate the talent on this team. The defense is crap (which use to be the cornerstone), Kaprizov is the only offensive threat, still no #1 center, and on and on). With that being said, I'm sure Dean saw the writing on the wall and knew a change was coming with the losing.

And now BG is resigning older players and bringing in a retread coach. Looks like the Wild are finally going to get a high draft pick - Which is needed.

 

[TheNumber4]

- they were not illegal contracts at the time they were signed.

- 14.7 m this year is the penalty for the team buying out Suter and Parise early.

- he could have avoided the penalties by not buying them out, or lessened them by just buying out Parise.

Instead of buying out and taking on those penalties, he could have just kept Suter and Parise playing at approximately 15M cap hit per year for 4 years? Instead he bought them out and has 15M dead cap x 4 years still?

 

[NHL1674]

Guerin seems like he’d be a smart GM. What are the most egregious moves he’s made as the Wilds GM. Besides those cap penalties buyouts that weren’t fully his fault. What else has he done?

Just for starters, Foligno sucked last year. Really sucked and became nothing but a penalty liability towards the end of the year. A smart GM would wait a little bit to see if a contract year would motivate the player to be better. But instead, Billy was so so desperate to keep him, that he threw the most ridiculous contract at him before the season even started.....a contract that will most likely be bought out further creating dead cap space. That's just ONE of the many reasons.

This is a GM who said this past summer that he really wanted to keep Reaves.

 

[ThatGuy22]

Guerin seems like he’d be a smart GM. What are the most egregious moves he’s made as the Wilds GM. Besides those cap penalties buyouts that weren’t fully his fault. What else has he done?

Resigning three 35 year olds with term coming off of bad seasons in a 24 hour span...