These Are The Days
Oh no! We suck again!!
If this isn't sorted out by Thanksgiving, time to promote Richards.
I can agree with this. We'll know by then.
If this isn't sorted out by Thanksgiving, time to promote Richards.
I think Thanksgiving is too late. We saw last year how crucial those early season points are. Waiting until Thanksgiving to be .500 and fire Cooper will just make our task of making the playoffs harder.
Perhaps I need to change my statement. He does nothing differently. He's gonna do the same thing this month as he will in March. But if we lose 10 games in October and win 10 games in March then is the system REALLY broken Matt? No it's based on the effort of the players. Of course it's proper to correlate effort to coaching. But does Palat start the year poorly because of coaching or because that's who he is? We KNOW that's who he is.
Like I said. I'm fully expecting us to continue to play poorly and then we'll pull out of it. We've seen it happen twice. If it happens a third time then we know that it has absolutely nothing to do with Cooper how draws up the X's and O's and everything to do with the fact that we are slow starting team the frustrates the hell out of everyone and then finishes strong.
It's a terrible identity to take but I'm not gonna justify firing Cooper for someone like Lindy Ruff. God help us all if that happens
OR and I’m just spit balling here. Maybe there is a coach who can implement a system that can use the strengths of the players so they start the season strong AND end it strong. Where we can win 10 in October AND 10 in March. That is why I want Cooper gone cause he has not been able to do that. It is time for someone else to have that chance.
We already have an up and comer in Groulx.
How has Kunitz looked in this tiny sample size? Which line do you guys have him?
I think kind of what we expected; he just kind of is there with a limited role and doesn't create much offense. He brings some energy and I'd guess leadership as well.Had him on the 4th line. Hasn’t stood out in a good or bad way.
I don’t know how many times we have to say it. “If the team consistently isn’t performing the way it should, that is a coaching problem”. We have too much talent to not occasionally win some games. We aren’t an expansion team, we have 3 of the top 15-20 players in the world. We’re gonna score goals and we’re going to win some games. The key problems that have been identified with this team are the defensive coverage and the breakout. Those are coaching specific problems. Doesn’t matter what players you put on the ice, if they don’t have any idea what to do they will scramble. Callahan has been one of the best defensive forwards in the league for a decade. Explain why he scrambles? Is it because he’s suddenly lazy? Because he suddenly can’t play defense?
TL;DR: We are too talented to not win some games. We are also too talented to not win more games. Fire Cooper.
Bishop WAS our breakout and we stuck with it because it worked. How many times did we say "They just cannot play in front of Vasy" if there's fault to be had it's that this was not corrected over the years. It'll take time now but like I said it's possible we're just a slow starting team. A coach who is lousy as lousy as we make Cooper out to be does not take his team out of the Eastern Conference cellar twice in consecutive seasons -much less with an AHL caliber offense and our new #2 defenseman being Jake freaking Dotchin
Ok, and now we don’t have Bishop. What has been done to improve the team breakout? You’re not wrong that Bishop played a big part in the breakout. That has been pointed out for over a year now. But what has Cooper done to get the most from his current roster?
Of course he doesn't make the system. But he can work on the defense's stretch passes can't he?
lmfao and yet Cooper won more games with an AHL squad last year than Boucher could with his by the time he was fired and damn near made the playoffs with a goaltender that would fall apart every time he let in a softy.
You're talking about goaltending when comparing Coope vs Boucher? Is this for real? You know you've run out of arguments when...