I hate seeing how old some of these guys look after watching them play most of their careers.
Confirmed with Link: Wings Fire Lalonde and Hire Todd McLellan
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I hate seeing how old some of these guys look after watching them play most of their careers.
Gniwder
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I wanted this already last season. I was sure the team could make playoffs. Now I don't see the point as I think we should aim for a high draft pick and developing young players.
However I think the team's PK was atrocious and this is despite solid goaltending. When your PK is last but you get solid goaltending, then you know that something is very very wrong. Larkin did not score in like 13/14 and he seemed very uninspired even depressed. The line changes were brutal. The team struggled to establish the puck possession in the offensive zone, but the players kept dumping the puck and thereof giving the puck away and going for the line change.
I don't understand how Lalonde didn't see this was so wrong.
The team seemed discombobulated but the young players were not developing as they should. Veleno for instance played the best 5 games of his life potting 3 points in 5 games while the team was struggling to provide offense, and Veleno hit even the post in last game coming close to 4 points in 5 games, but Lalonde played him 6 min in one of those 5 games. Kasper and Berggren slowed down from the hottish start, but they were not producing either.
Tarasenko only 4 goals. Kane a long stretch without a goal. The major problem was that the young players were not developing.
Husso played his best game last 8 months, they send him down.
However I think the team's PK was atrocious and this is despite solid goaltending. When your PK is last but you get solid goaltending, then you know that something is very very wrong. Larkin did not score in like 13/14 and he seemed very uninspired even depressed. The line changes were brutal. The team struggled to establish the puck possession in the offensive zone, but the players kept dumping the puck and thereof giving the puck away and going for the line change.
I don't understand how Lalonde didn't see this was so wrong.
The team seemed discombobulated but the young players were not developing as they should. Veleno for instance played the best 5 games of his life potting 3 points in 5 games while the team was struggling to provide offense, and Veleno hit even the post in last game coming close to 4 points in 5 games, but Lalonde played him 6 min in one of those 5 games. Kasper and Berggren slowed down from the hottish start, but they were not producing either.
Tarasenko only 4 goals. Kane a long stretch without a goal. The major problem was that the young players were not developing.
Husso played his best game last 8 months, they send him down.
KJoe88
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Wow. lol this is the most excitement we’ve had.
No seriously I guess we’re going to find out how bad this team is. Coach Mac is a good coach. But he’s not going to magically fix us. I’m pretty sure he had the two best players in the world and still couldn’t win. Then again he won with us way back in 2008.
Idk guy has experience. Hopefully he can at least motivate the guys because Larkins last presser was so demoralizing
No seriously I guess we’re going to find out how bad this team is. Coach Mac is a good coach. But he’s not going to magically fix us. I’m pretty sure he had the two best players in the world and still couldn’t win. Then again he won with us way back in 2008.
Idk guy has experience. Hopefully he can at least motivate the guys because Larkins last presser was so demoralizing
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Had to happen, too late but it is what is.
I doubt that any coach can get this defense to the play-offs, but let's hope that maybe he can bring something out of Johansson. Also, Gustafsson looked better on his previous couple teams, he should be a decent 4-5#D.
Best case scenario is that the team starts playing well and Yzerman get some solid value at the trade deadline.
I doubt that any coach can get this defense to the play-offs, but let's hope that maybe he can bring something out of Johansson. Also, Gustafsson looked better on his previous couple teams, he should be a decent 4-5#D.
Best case scenario is that the team starts playing well and Yzerman get some solid value at the trade deadline.
gritdash60
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Well goals against will go down, goals for will stay the same, some very exciting 1-1 games incoming.
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I am right there with you. I would have preferred an interim, from the current group, sell off these trash free agent signings and then reboot in the off season.
Not gonna argue those teams weren't better than the sharks(that's why they won)
but they had really good teams who kept falling short. Boyle was one of the better dmen at the time,vlasic and demers were solid
Pavelski couture Marleau... they were one of the top teams for many years ... like we were in the 90s till we finally got over the hump.i think your underestimating how good a team they had back then
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This season has been a stark change. Stothers spent five seasons running the familiar heavy-checking, defense-minded style employed by former Kings coaches Darryl Sutter and John Stevens. McLellan arrived with a new neutral zone forecheck (a 1-3-1 instead of the Kings’ previous 1-2-2), new terminology (a phrase such as “skating interference,” for instance, is now known as a “down screen”), a new special-teams system, and a new ethos: Play faster and more aggressive.
Kings coach Todd McLellan's faster, aggressive system is run by AHL Ontario affiliate
Ontario Reign coach Mike Stothers makes sure his team emulates the Kings in everything from terminology to a new faster, more aggressive style of play.
www.latimes.com
Why waste the powder, make him swim.
Steve Yzerlland
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There is a practicality to contracts. You at a minimum go 3 year term to give you the option after year 2 to either extend or terminate the coach.
Very few coaches make it just to the end of their deal and walk away.
Going to have some time left when they get moved on from by the team.
This is the next HC and not an interim one. If you wanted an interim one then someone like Bruce Boudreau would likely have been that. McClelland would probably get interviews in the offseason when a bunch of openings are available.
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Oddbob
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Do you really not understand how things work league wide with coaches? All coaches with experience and most without it get multi year deals, you don't get good coaches giving them an interim deal.
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Glad to see that Boughner also got fired, as I have had a suspicion that him and Lalonde were the reason why Mo has been playing way more conservatively since his rookie season.
Not super excited that McLellan plays a 1-3-1 system, and hope the not playing youngsters is not a real thing as we are supposed to be getting younger. That said, sounds like he likes playing the top players more, so Mo and Ed should see plenty of ice and hopefully less of Petry. Hoping to see more of the rookie style from Mo.
Not super excited that McLellan plays a 1-3-1 system, and hope the not playing youngsters is not a real thing as we are supposed to be getting younger. That said, sounds like he likes playing the top players more, so Mo and Ed should see plenty of ice and hopefully less of Petry. Hoping to see more of the rookie style from Mo.
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FINALLY we can get those future considerations
RabidBadger
Mazur detractors will look like dummies!
That's where I am with things. I'm not expecting a big run, I just want to see some kind of compete level. Right now the team is playing like they were passing a bottle of sizzurp around before the game.
If we flirt with the playoffs, play with a pair, and land Hagens
, I'll be content. Let's move on... something the whiners at the Walman Wailing Wall will never do.
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What if I told you the 1-3-1 he plays used to be called the left wing lock?
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Trap is 1-2-2. You had usually a center as F1 to forecheck in order to close the center ice and wings taking away the boards. No three zone passes as trap was effective during red line rule timeframe
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Not underestimating them at all. But as good as they were, I can’t say they were truly a top 4 team in that 2009-2017 era. That was Chicago, LA, Boston, Pittsburgh.
If anything the Sharks or Blues are the equivalent of the Flyers from 95-2003. The 5th or 6th best team at that time and they lost because they kept running into the true contenders.
Steve Yzerlland
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Pretty sure they were one of the top teams every year and won the presidents trophy. Alot of hockey guys took them as cup winners on prediction shows for a reason
They just never lived up to expectations. We were the san jose sharks for years until we finally won the cup in 97
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