How many teams changed the coach and what is the result?
Depends on the team. St. Louis last year won a Stanley Cup after switching their coach, some seem slight improvement (Toronto) while other teams see no change at all.
Leafs played much better after the change, but now I am not sure if they are any better at all. Sharks are worse.
Ya exactly, thats my point. A coaching change is completely situational and go in any direction.
Depends on the team. St. Louis last year won a Stanley Cup after switching their coach, some seem slight improvement (Toronto) while other teams see no change at all.
Usually it's an instant help, but if the roster is built in wrong way like Dubas has done, same problems will cumulate again after a transitions period, and then any coaching change won't save Dubas' ass from a fire.
Biggest thing for them was finding a legit goalie. Their former guys were just horrible black holes. St. Louis did have had great advanced stats and winning Hitchcock-culture very long and their goalie department was always their biggest problem. Then Binnington came and broke some Patrick Roy's playoff records. It was all him (of the change) and more of great long-term building for other parts on the roster.
You're not giving the Blues the credit they deserve by saying it was all Binnington. 100%, he was a huge factor (maybe even the biggest), but if you watched the Blues in November, then watched them after the coaching change, they were a different team.
Leafs were 9-10-4 with a -8 goal differential under Babcock and have gone 19-9-3 with a +23 differntial since. That's a little more than just a slight improvement.Depends on the team. St. Louis last year won a Stanley Cup after switching their coach, some seem slight improvement (Toronto) while other teams see no change at all.
Well if the roster is built the wrong way, it is what it is. However, sometimes the roster is built the right way and a coaching change is what the team needed.
Look, bottom line is that to blindly think that firing a coach will fix all your problems is not smart mentality to have as a GM, but also, to blindly stick with your coach regardless of performance because you think its pointless is also not a smart mentality. Point being, its situational. Sometimes a coaching change is needed, sometimes a coaching change does nothing.
They were on pace for an 85 point season and a -31 goal differential under Babcock. They have been on a 108 point pace and on pace for a +60 differential after Babcock was fired.Leafs played much better after the change, but now I am not sure if they are any better at all. Sharks are worse.
Fair enough.They were on pace for an 85 point season and a -31 goal differential under Babcock. They have been on a 108 point pace and on pace for a +60 differential after Babcock was fired.
I would say they are a little better.
100 points +35 and yet another first round defeatFair enough.
What was their record under babcock last season?
I think it was obvious they did not want to play for him anymore. It was the right decision to fire him.100 points +35 and yet another first round defeat
Leafs were 9-10-4 with a -8 goal differential under Babcock and have gone 19-9-3 with a +23 differntial since. That's a little more than just a slight improvement.
If you are a team with Stanley Cup aspirations, then you don't have the time to let things play out with a coach not getting the job done. Taking on the deadweight contract of a fired coach, on top of the contract of the new coach, is a fee you pay for the run to the Cup.
Contrast with a team in the Red Wings situation. Why would ownership sign off on paying two coaches, regardless of how short the overlap is, when if they are lucky the new coach is going to net maybe 3-5 more wins? Again, that's if you are lucky. Ownership and management know that they are icing the worst roster in the league by a country mile, and odds are making a change will not yield a significantly different result.
Yeah, but finally everything is based on the goaltender, when he is not the guy who is blowing out the games anymore. Those Huttons and Allens were formerly horrible. Binnington keep them fighting and everybody will buy in. It reminds a lot of our games from this season, where we did play great, and then Howard absolutely sucked all energy out from the by letting several easy goals. Momemtum killer night after night.
they were happy without dictator , now they slowly become RW like.Leafs played much better after the change, but now I am not sure if they are any better at all. Sharks are worse.