Speculation: Assistant Coaches for next season

[Thndrstruck]

So Darryl's the new Head Coach for the next couple of season, but what does that mean for the assistant/associate coaches? My personal opinion is that Darryl will look for his guys. Gelinas might stay on, and Huska is a maybe, not sure about Edwards. What do you think? Who should we bring in? Discuss.

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[DFF]

Special team and goalie coach…don’t care much about anything else

 

[Lunatik]

So Darryl's the new Head Coach for the next couple of season, but what does that mean for the assistant/associate coaches? My personal opinion is that Darryl will look for his guys. Gelinas might stay on, and Huska is a maybe, not sure about Edwards. What do you think? Who should we bring in? Discuss.

Rich Preston is available

 

[Thndrstruck]

Rich Preston is available

To bad Jim Playfair is up north!

 

[Lunatik]

To bad Jim Playfair is up north!

Playfair was never a Suter guy, in fact Playfair was up for the head coach position when Sutter was originally hired. He was that generations Huska, organizational guy being groomed to eventually be head coach. We're seeing this more and more too with Vancouver and Green and Toronto and Keefe.

 

[Thndrstruck]

Playfair was never a Suter guy, in fact Playfair was up for the head coach position when Sutter was originally hired. He was that generations Huska, organizational guy being groomed to eventually be head coach. We're seeing this more and more too with Vancouver and Green and Toronto and Keefe.

Then why did Sutter make him head coach as a GM?

 

[Nanuuk]

If Travis Green is let go by the Canucks, I wouldn't mind him on the Flames staff. Assuming Darryl and he are on the same page philosophy wise.

 

[Lunatik]

Then why did Sutter make him head coach as a GM?

Because he was being groomed for that role is my guess. There is a reason Playfair only got 1 year.

 

[User1996]

If Travis Green is let go by the Canucks, I wouldn't mind him on the Flames staff. Assuming Darryl and he are on the same page philosophy wise.

I think it would be a mistake to just look for guys who are on the same page as you. Need diversity and people who will challenge ideas, not a bunch of yes men.

 

[Lunatik]

I think it would be a mistake to just look for guys who are on the same page as you. Need diversity and people who will challenge ideas, not a bunch of yes men.

Funny enough Geoff Ward is a good assistant coach for hard ass coaches

 

[Nanuuk]

I think it would be a mistake to just look for guys who are on the same page as you. Need diversity and people who will challenge ideas, not a bunch of yes men.

I was thinking along the lines of succession planning, but point taken.

 

[Fig]

I think it would be a mistake to just look for guys who are on the same page as you. Need diversity and people who will challenge ideas, not a bunch of yes men.

You need both. You can't work with someone who is always opposite as you. But someone who is a clone of you amplifies problems that currently exists

 

[Lunatik]

I was thinking along the lines of succession planning, but point taken.

Even succession, you need a different message, especially if the previous has been tuned out.

 

[Mobiandi]

Don't know about assistants but the Flames need to poach Ian Clark for their goalie dept