Confirmed with Link: Sens hire Cookson as assistant coach and Groulx as goalie coach
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BonkTastic
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Yep.
Groulx apparently is the guy who worked with Anderson when he was in Florida. Seems like he was instrumental in turning Andy's career around. He went to Montreal after and is credited with developing Halak.
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edguy
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Seems like a good coach! Maybe im still sour over the Wamsley firing to fully appreciate what Groulx has done though. Really didnt think we shoulda let him go haha
Micklebot
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Cool. I think I used to work with his sister (I know her brother was a goalie coach for the Habs but he got let go a few years back).
edit: According to his page on Wikipedia, he started his career as a video coach in Ottawa. I had no idea.
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Price exploded because he stopped smoking cigarettes and eating Mcdonalds when he almost lost his job to Halak.
His issue was his commitment to conditioning.
In Ottawa that would qualify you as a Sens insider, get paid for local radio and TV commentary and maybe even have a popular sports blog.
BonkTastic
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Depends on your career plans as an NHL caliber starting goalie, I suppose.
If you are willing to settle for a career in accounting, then go for it.
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Nope, it's true.
He smoked and he apparently had a game day habit of eating a Mars bar before every game. Or maybe it was a Snickers.
I wish Crawford was working with the forwards and we had hired Brad Shaw to work with the D. Maybe we can hire Stumpy Thomas to work with the forwards.
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Isn't Boucher going to be handling the forwards?
Brad Shaw would be a dream hire for that last bench spot, but there's no way he'd come in here with 2/3 guys ahead of him on the pecking order.
Usually there are 3 coaches behind the bench, one assistant works with the defence and the other assistant with the forwards, but it's unclear as to whether we are going to hire another assistant. Cookson is going to be up top as the eye in the sky, so there is room for one more guy, but they may decide to just have Boucher and Crawford on the bench.
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Unless I'm misremembering I'm pretty sure Boucher was quoted as saying they'd have 3 on the bench + 1 eye in the sky, so I would expect one more announcement at some point this summer.
I also seem to remember Boucher saying he'd be very involved with the forwards. Not that that means they won't bring in another guy to deal with the forwards as well, just that it would be Boucher's main focus.
I just wish we knew for sure if they are looking for another coach or if they're done. I guess I'm just impatient and starved for Sens news
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Sounds like we hired a video coach today: Kristopher Young.
According to the same article, we also moved someone into "analytical and statistical research & development".
According to the same article, we also moved someone into "analytical and statistical research & development".
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Micklebot
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According to the article, Young has a background in analytics too. Perhaps he'll be involved in that as well.
Pattyson (the someone who was moved into Analytics, and stats R&D) was our video coach, so I guess this is a bit of a promotion for him?
