Soul8
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What do they Excel at, what do they struggle at, and how will they help this team?
I'd like to know what coaches they could bring in that would instill faith in this fan base.When Nicholson spoke near the end and said the fans will get on board when they seen the plan I'm notI'm not too sure these coaching additions give me any type of confidence Yawney being the most impressive I suppose.
If we aren't already aware of Manny and Gigi's strength I sure hope the people making these choices of bringing them on our, but it's hard to have confidence in them when they were the same ones that hired T-Mac and his assistants
I'd like to know what coaches they could bring in that would instill faith in this fan base.
What do they Excel at, what do they struggle at, and how will they help this team?
What do they Excel at, what do they struggle at, and how will they help this team?
Humble brag, lol.I think I came across Manny 2YRS Ago and was fairly impressed.
Not to toot my own horn....
I also may have glanced at Gulutzans hair once or twice in passing.....
Having watched Gulutzan coach for two years I guess I could tell you he
- Excels at structure, defensive details, and all other things related to shot suppression and penalty killing (5v5, PK). 2015 Canucks had a top PK under him and both years the Flames had a solid PK under him. Our PK could have been better but I'll touch on that later.
- Excels at macro-level tweaking on the defensive end within his structure. When there are tweaks to be made he has tried many different things and has had many different sub-systems. He's not stubbornly adherent to one way.
- Struggles with micro-level tweaking - he won't do anything in-game and probably won't change anything for five-seven games even when it's blatantly obvious it's just... a bad idea.
- Struggles with anything involving offensive creativity, whether that is 5v5, 4v4, 3v3, PP, 5v3. His offensive philosophy seems to be that "some players just have better finish but everyone should just keep shooting pucks on net", a strategy that worked for a few players (Sean Monahan, Dougie Hamilton) but generally crashed and burned with the majority of his team.
- Struggles with actual player usage (His systems clashed hard with the Bartkowski-Engelland pair in the 2017 playoffs and he stuck to them). This was the one issue with his penalty kill as well last year, as he insisted on this forward pair of Stajan-Brouwer that probably wouldn't even have been effective killing penalties together in the AHL, and yet rode them hard to failure. Further to that he struggles with objectivity. Nik Grossman, who was our second-worst player in 2016 preseason on a PTO, had a history with GG which got him an underserved contract and then GG played him with Dougie Hamilton on our second pair, got him out there against Draisaitl where his very first shift he basically gave Draisaitl a Gretzky level assist. It was baffling why he even played in that game considering just how much better Brett Kulak had been even then. But the worst part was when Grossman was finally contract-terminated, he publically blamed Grossmann's teammates for it. There are other countless examples - his usage of TJ Brodie, Sam Bennett, Troy Brouwer, Brett Kulak.
- Excels at building player relationships. While I don't know if he commanded "respect" he did command affection from his players.
- Struggles with not sounding extremely, embarrassingly corny when talking about hockey past X's and O's. I would cringe everytime he talked about "Building Emotional Bank Accounts" or team-building - things of that sort. While the personal and team aspects have their place, the way he speaks is just hilariously and obliviously patronizing.
When I read this, it just sort of sounds like McClellan - lite. It doesnt surprise me though, just seems like GG is redundant. Maybe he will be more effective as an assistant coach. Guess we will see if hes hired by the Oilers.
There isn't a lot of teams in sports in general that just go out and pick random guys. It's usually guys that people have worked together with, because you need to trust them. What good is bringing guys in and then TM just doesn't use them at all?Redundant is the word i would use as well, it shows a lack of understanding by those doing the hring if he does come, maybe again this is Tmac picking his friends...not a good thing in my opinion, unless some superstar assistant comes along who can coach the pp and create some offensive confidence.
There isn't a lot of teams in sports in general that just go out and pick random guys. It's usually guys that people have worked together with, because you need to trust them. What good is bringing guys in and then TM just doesn't use them at all?
Gg has clearly been brought in in case he has to take over the team at the 20 game mark.
This is pretty much what came to mind for me too.When I read this, it just sort of sounds like McClellan - lite. It doesnt surprise me though, just seems like GG is redundant. Maybe he will be more effective as an assistant coach. Guess we will see if hes hired by the Oilers.
I see the logic but to me GG is just an average to mediocre head coach. Sure he could be a bandaid fix if TM starts the year poorly, but it just seems pointless to replace him with a coach whos more or less the same if not worse.
Yup, if we would take GG as a head coach, the same coach that was unable to land a head coaching gig this summer after being fired? If that is the case...this team is in trouble, because the higher ups are setting the team up to fail.