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Think the Flyers will be interested when they have to fire Torts after the late season collapse or the Pens after they fire Sullivan?Travis Green should be available
Think the Flyers will be interested when they have to fire Torts after the late season collapse or the Pens after they fire Sullivan?Travis Green should be available
i'll add disco dan to my list of acceptable coaches, in place of sullivan who i'd give a .5% chance of not returning to pittsburgh. vellucci, berube, bylsma, boudreau, leach. dark and unlikely horse, savard.
Most of his time in St. Louis (especially more recent seasons), his blueline personnel was atrocious.If there’s one thing that needs to be changed right away, it is the defensive zone. The Blues are one of the worst teams in the NHL at defending the slot, allowing a higher percentage of chances from there than almost every team. Armstrong alluded to that when asked about his defencemen: “When our team game suffers, (our defence) and our goalie looks the worst. And our variance on a nightly basis is concerning.”
32 Thoughts: What’s next for the Blues after Craig Berube firing? – Sportsnet.ca
Outside of binnington catching fire has didn’t really do much
They were near the 15-20 range at 5 on 5 most of his time there too
I got you famI'd rather see a rubber Dano mask slapped onto a Furby thats tied into Bing AI or Chat GPT (not even the good subscription ones, the free crap) behind the bench than half of these retreads mentioned, yuck.
Defense could be better but that’s a very solid forward corps.I think I would be okay with Bylsma. What was he supposed to do with this tream?
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if we want throwing things around and reduce injury at the same time, we need a captain who shoots wide.Well under my stewardship a new captain will get masterful performances from Haula and Palat by yelling and throwing things around the locker room. I’m sure that will improve the team defense and reduce the injuries that have plagued the team.
If it was prime Eichel and Reinhart that would be a good forward core. But they were 20 and 21.Defense could be better but that’s a very solid forward corps.
Eichel, ROR, Reinhart, E Kane. Okposo was still in his prime.
I’m still cool with Bylsma though his track record is not the best of the available candidates.
Defense could be better but that’s a very solid forward corps.
Eichel, ROR, Reinhart, E Kane. Okposo was still in his prime.
I’m still cool with Bylsma though his track record is not the best of the available candidates.
If it was prime Eichel and Reinhart that would be a good forward core. But they were 20 and 21.
He's the reason Shero got fired from Pittsburgh
Most of the criticism and unfavorable opinions on Disco Dan started well before that stint in Buffalo.
They began in Pittsburgh, and several years before his firing.
They underachieved quite a bit in the playoffs after he won the 2009 (He won the cup, so he must be good, blah blah blah!) cup and a lot of that was on Fleury, who had several epic meltdowns along the way during those years, Some of them were on par with Vitek last year. Bylsma was always looked at as a JAG, who caught fire with Crosby/Malkin/Letang at the right time. The team did make the finals the year before under Therrien, who got fired down the final stretch and replaced with Bylsma.
Not too long after they fired him and hired a real coach (who has now become persona non grata among Pens fans lol) they won two cups in a row.
But not before they hired a JOKE coach in between (I always forget his name, but he looked like he worked in a funeral home) and easily getting blown over and turned upside down by the Rangers, and that was even with a solid series out of Fleury for the first time in many years.
For all we know Bylsma may be a better coach this time around than he was when he won the cup not even 50 games after becoming a head coach for the first time in the league.
He's kind of just in the ''Better than Travis Green'' bin for me, along with almost every hockey coach on the planet.
I remember 2013 was the Vokoun year. I remember Fleury starting the playoffs, but losing the job halfway through the first round against the Islanders (I think?) and he allowed a late goal in one of the games that was probably softy of the playoffs for that year. And it wasn't the only one.I wrote “Injuries kill any real playoff hope a lot of years after the first Cup in 2009.”
Then, as I’m wont to do, I looked it up and that was less of thing than I remembered. Pretty much once in 5 years.
2010: 2nd Rd L, 3-4 MTL
just a regular old loss
2011: 1st Rd L, 3-4 TBL
No Crosby or Malkin in playoffs
2012: 1st Rd L, 2-4 PHI
The “I don’t like them because I don’t like any guy on their team” series
A wild one, endless brawls and penalties, and goals, goals, goals.
All those goals meant bad goaltending and Fleury won the bad goalie anti-duel.
2013: ECF L, 4-0 BOS
It happens
2014: 2nd Rd L, 4-3 NYR
A collapse after having a 3-1 lead gets everyone fired.
It’s the combo in short order of that Bruins series in 2013 (that was the year they loaded up with Iginla, Doug Murray and I want to say Brendan Morrow), followed by the Olympic disaster vs Canada, followed by the collapse vs the Rangers. I’m a span of a year his reputation tumbled (remember when HBO portrayed him as the cerebral one vs Boudreau).I wrote “Injuries kill any real playoff hope a lot of years after the first Cup in 2009.”
Then, as I’m wont to do, I looked it up and that was less of thing than I remembered. Pretty much once in 5 years.
2010: 2nd Rd L, 3-4 MTL
just a regular old loss
2011: 1st Rd L, 3-4 TBL
No Crosby or Malkin in playoffs
2012: 1st Rd L, 2-4 PHI
The “I don’t like them because I don’t like any guy on their team” series
A wild one, endless brawls and penalties, and goals, goals, goals.
All those goals meant bad goaltending and Fleury won the bad goalie anti-duel.
2013: ECF L, 4-0 BOS
It happens
2014: 2nd Rd L, 4-3 NYR
A collapse after having a 3-1 lead gets everyone fired.
Christ I forgot how bad some of those were...of course when you're not a fan of the team you basically forget within a year unless it's something REALLY shitty like the Louie Domingue disaster.I wrote “Injuries kill any real playoff hope a lot of years after the first Cup in 2009.”
Then, as I’m wont to do, I looked it up and that was less of thing than I remembered. Pretty much once in 5 years.
2010: 2nd Rd L, 3-4 MTL
just a regular old loss
2011: 1st Rd L, 3-4 TBL
No Crosby or Malkin in playoffs
2012: 1st Rd L, 2-4 PHI
The “I don’t like them because I don’t like any guy on their team” series
A wild one, endless brawls and penalties, and goals, goals, goals.
All those goals meant bad goaltending and Fleury won the bad goalie anti-duel.
2013: ECF L, 4-0 BOS
It happens
2014: 2nd Rd L, 4-3 NYR
A collapse after having a 3-1 lead gets everyone fired.
I'd rather see a rubber Dano mask slapped onto a Furby thats tied into Bing AI or Chat GPT (not even the good subscription ones, the free crap) behind the bench than half of these retreads mentioned, yuck.
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which one?
Not enough GreenSo what options to we have?
Not working atm:
Jay Woodcroft
Gerard Gallant
Guy-who-was-fired-from-Minnesota
Bruce
Could be pried:
Guy Boucher
Berube
Is Dineen still in Utica?