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

[JoeSakic13]

is hynes really an upgrade?

He’s not quite Kensington, but he’s an upgrade over Hunt.

 

[BuiumSaveUs]

Yep. You will move to the top of the league in hits, that's about the only number you will see go up other than maybe Goals against.

Whatever. Maybe the next coach will be better

 

[aylib]

Secondary Zuke always gets his seconds. His shift average/game is among the highest in the NHL, so he is always tired at the end of his shifts.

I think it was 2nd behind Kaprizov when I checked last week. Rounding up the top 3 was Boldy. Fourth in the league was Bedard.

 

[Sweetnut]

Oh great another gritty coach

I thought you knew Billy G by now.

 

[kvladimir]

Definitely his fault and not the GM who put $15M of dead cap on the books

I know it's been said a few times in this thread, but it is so vital to understand, and I hear it stated sooooooo often re: the Wild, that I will repeat it and urge you all to shout it from the heavens:

There is no possible way, nor any alternate universe, where the Wild don't A) have the 15M dead cap, or B) have ~2.5M less cap space and 2 roster spots taken up by Parise and Suter

You could argue maybe one or both of those guys would be LTIR'ed by now, but without those buyouts, the Wild would have had less cap space, been a worse team each season since the buyouts (because the small extra cap and room on the roster for good ELC players like Boldy and Faber), and would have lost Dumba in the SEA expansion draft, because Suter and Parise had NMCs and were not willing to waive for any reason at all (so no possible way to trade them with double retention or anything either, though the cost would have been prohibitive).

Tl;dr: the 15M cap penalty was inevitable, because Parise and Suter weren't even close to living up to those contracts enough to accept all the losses that not buying them out would have caused

 

[Michoulicious]

Minnesota is most mid franchise ever, all leagues combined.

The solution?

Hynes.

Omg.

 

[D Wakaluk]

The NHL coaching circle is rediculous

It's virtually impossible to not get a job unless you babcock or chicago yourself

 

[Sweetnut]

I think it was 2nd behind Kaprizov when I checked last week. Rounding up the top 3 was Boldy. Fourth in the league was Bedard.

There you go. That is one of the problems with Wild, too long shifts and no energy on the ice.
Look at the fastest teams, short shifts, great energy, fast skilled players.
Wild got 3 lines of fourth line bruisers, and a first line who plays 1.20 per shift.

 

[Patty Ice]

“Dean did an excellent job during his tenure with the Minnesota Wild, especially as Head Coach of our team

So excellent that he lost his job because of it. Or is Guerin's mission to be the worst team in the league?

 

[LeighDx59]

LMAO no way! I'm so sorry Wild fans, its not gonna get better.

 

[AKL]

LMAO no way! I'm so sorry Wild fans, its not gonna get better.

This is great news for the tank

 

[Armourboy]

This is great news for the tank

I don't know that it will get worse, but it probably won't get much better.

 

[BlueDream]

Shame, was such a clown. Now we only have the clown GM to laugh at. This is Garfunkel without Simon.

They got Hynes, so Simon is now back.

This organization is hilarious. Hynes didn’t impress in his previous two stops, so of course the Wild bring him on board because every single move they make is pure mediocrity at best. Every single year.

 

[Circulartheory]

Ok look when I said I didn't know why they hired Evanson to start with that didn't mean double down and hire Hynes.

Be prepared to see every young player benched or stuck on the 4th line playing with scrubs while your " grit " is bumped to the top lines. If you had any hope for a younger player to develop, you can throw that right out the window and set it on fire.

Genuinely curious - which young player did he fail to develop? Because if I am thinking Tolvanen/Glass/Trenin, those three were never really prospects I had big expectations to begin with knowing they had some major flaws to their game. Glass I was high on during his draft year but by the time he was traded to Nashville, his development already started to plateau in Vegas.

I only bring this up because I think Rossi, Faber, Boldy and the incoming prospects of Wallstedt, Yurov, Ohgren provide a more solid foundation and perhaps that concern may not be as prevalent.

 

[Qward]

Holding your coaching staff accountable? Must be nice.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

You Wild fans will hear some interviews with Hynes and he'll be all positive energy and say some good things - well, he will say A LOT of things - some of them will sound good. At first. He talks a good game, he works his butt off, he has ideas, he WANTS to succeed. But end of the day... he just can't. For all his keener energy, he's just not going to be able to accomplish what he wants. And for every good thing he says, he says SO MUCH that you shouldn't take him at face value, because half the time the things he actually does are going to be completely opposite of what he's saying. Caveat emptor.

 

[aylib]

Holding your coaching staff accountable? Must be nice.

That, or scapegoating. I am no Wild expert.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

I wouldn't say he got fired. Guerin just boxed him out and he fell over.

 

[Iggys Dome]

Minnesota Mild, I feel bad for them. What a weird hire. Does the old boys club really run that deep in the NHL?

 

[Hasbro]

Last title in the Twin Cities was ‘91. Damn!

 

[BuiumSaveUs]

Minnesota Mild, I feel bad for them. What a weird hire. Does the old boys club really run that deep in the NHL?

Rumor has it Ray Shero, Jimmy Rutherford, Bill Guerin and John Hynes were doing Sake Bombs on Craig Leipold jet last night

 

[BHD]

It’s more than Guerin hiring a retread. There are other retreads out there. It’s that the retread is John Hynes.

 

[Vukotal Recall]

Cheryl Hines and Steve Heinze would be better coaches than John Hynes.

 

[Oneiro]

Franchise equivalent of khaki pants.

 

[wayninja]

I like how his billion game losing streak was Cale Makar's fault.