Not exactly 100% sure who this guy is, but he does blog regularly about the Binghamton Senators. Here is his comment on Richardson:
For anyone paying attention to how Richardson ran his lines and ran his team he was a complete disaster. He consistently failed to learn from his mistakes, praised the wrong players, and failed at his most important job: development. As an AHL coach there are always going to be players so talented that the coach is irrelevant, and there will always be players so awful no one can save them, but there’s no example of a marginal player who got better under Richardson. Prospects flatlined or declined under his ministration, as Richardson favoured grinders and aging veterans over talent and this season was by far the best example of that. I could go on about his poor choices and unwillingness to learn or accept responsibility for anything, but there’s no point in beating a dead horse (I go over some of it here). Richardson will have no problem getting assistant coaching jobs around the league, but no one with any sense is ever going to give him a head coaching position again.
Instead of listening to our Ottawa media gush about how wonderful everything is all the time, maybe start we need to start reading informed opinions of people who actually watch the games.
The site is eyeonthesens.com if anyone is interested. Guy does a weekly write up on the Sens farm system. Its quite enjoyable, cause he doesn't pull any punches.
