WPGChief
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I mean, let's take a quick peek at some of that coaching carousel:Gotta wonder how other coaches would have done compared to Bones? Jets seemed to luck out at the end. Perfect match that was not intentional.
>Boston - Got Montgomery (who Murat heavily implied was the other candidate for the Jets job), who has Boston off to a 19-3-0 record and haven't lost at home.
>Vegas - Got Cassidy, who has dramatically improved the team's control of quality shots for and against, and as a result has stabilized a goaltending position that was largely seen as a question mark with Lehner's injury and recovery.
>Dallas - Got DeBoer, who has gotten the team's offence running a bit better without having to worry about defence (and goaltending), with Jason Robertson becoming an absolute superstar.
>Winnipeg - Got Bowness, who has this team running on excellent vibes with it's star players playing like stars (but without him on the early two road trips, weren't playing as great under just Arniel).
>Florida - Got Maurice, who has the Panthers with some awesome underlying metrics but a putrid shooting and save percentage.
>New Jersey - Got Brunette (Associate Coach, though), with the Devils' offence taking off now that they finally have some stable goaltending.
Is it the coaches, or is it mostly just getting a new voice in the room when it was needed? Granted, you have other new coaches like Tortorella in PHI, Quinn in SJS, Lalonde in DET, Richardson in CHI, and Lambert in NYI that are all somewhat middling/questionable in their own ways, but for the teams that are actively trying to compete, it's seemed like just getting a different voice and mindset is paying dividends at the moment.
And then you realize the Jets had Maurice as the second-longest tenured HC before his 'resignation' and had one of the Assistants take over as Interim (Lowry, but I think it would've been Kompon had his wife were not battling cancer at the time). What could've been if Chevy got what he wanted after the 2019 series loss to STL...