Confirmed with Link: Washington Capitals name Spencer Carbery as new Head Coach

[CapitalsCupReality]

So anyone knows this guys system and inclinations?

Watch the interview or see my comments after that earlier post with its link.

 

[StrikingDistance]

I haven't been this excited about a new coach since they announced Adam Oates!

 

[Roric]

I haven't been this excited about a new coach since they announced Adam Oates!

 

[Corby78]

I haven't been this excited about a new coach since they announced Adam Oates!

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Oates did pretty much fix the PP and we havent changed it much in the 10 or so years since him. Him being super focused on changing posistions from their stick handness was his down fall.

 

[895]

Adam Oates invented the pp that every team uses right now right?

And his obsession with handedness is pretty common now too.

He was a smart guy with lots of ideas but that doesn't make him a good head coach. He could be the best assistant coach in the world probably though.

 

[Praetorian Caps]

Ok....I've never seen a single Adam Sandler movie in my life (which I've prided myself on) but the actors perfect deadpan delivery might, and I emphasize might, make me break that rule?

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Ok....I've never seen a single Adam Sandler movie in my life (which I've prided myself on) but the actors perfect deadpan delivery might, and I emphasize might, make me break that rule?

Adam Sandler has some absolutely atrocious films but he’s got many gems too. Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Anger Management, The Wedding Singer, and The Waterboy are classics and required viewing, in my opinion. Airheads, Click, and 8 Crazy Nights are great too. And the Hotel Transylvania movies are a lot of fun with the kids as well.

 

[CapsFrontOffice]

Bro wasted zero time
1 day later

Capitals have reportedly let teams know that they’re ready to move on from Anthony Mantha

After three relatively unsuccessful seasons with the Washington Capitals, forward Anthony Mantha could be making his way out of DC this summer.…

russianmachineneverbreaks.com

 

[Random schmoe]

Whenever the topic of Adam Oates as a HC comes up this is all I can think of:

“I’m a head coach of a team: My job is to know every position,” Oates said recently. “I never played D but I know D, so I know goaltending.”

 

[Calicaps]

Whenever the topic of Adam Oates as a HC comes up this is all I can think of:

some lulz from those dark days

 

[IafrateOvie34]

Whenever the topic of Adam Oates as a HC comes up this is all I can think of:

Or that fail face avatar.

 

[895]

I didn't know Carbery was so bald.

We have good success with completely bald coaches like Boudreau and Trotz. It's the balding ones like Reirden and Lavi that suck. Very good call.

 

[usiel]

I didn't know Carbery was so bald.

We have good success with completely bald coaches like Boudreau and Trotz. It's the balding ones like Reirden and Lavi that suck. Very good call.

Being that I personally fall into the "..so bald" category this is a type of analysis here that keeps me coming back.

 

[RedRocking]

Bro wasted zero time
1 day later

Capitals have reportedly let teams know that they’re ready to move on from Anthony Mantha

After three relatively unsuccessful seasons with the Washington Capitals, forward Anthony Mantha could be making his way out of DC this summer.…

russianmachineneverbreaks.com

Good riddance. His mouth guard chewing game just hasn’t progressed to Tkachuck levels. What a tragic disappointment.

If nothing else, that cap space could be used to bring back Orlov. Though they probably will want to allocate that money to a forward.

 

[YippieKaey]

Maybe we should get a bald forward to replace Mantha. With Getzlaf retired, who's available?

 

[kicksavedave]

I didn't know Carbery was so bald.

We have good success with completely bald coaches like Boudreau and Trotz. It's the balding ones like Reirden and Lavi that suck. Very good call.

#science.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Maybe we should get a bald forward to replace Mantha. With Getzlaf retired, who's available?

What’s Zach Sill doing these days??

 

[Jags]

What’s Zach Sill doing these days??

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I see your Zach Sill and raise you a...

There was also Eric Fehr, but I recall him being more of a guy with sad hair that just shaved it.

 

[Chokingdogs]

Bro wasted zero time
1 day later

Capitals have reportedly let teams know that they’re ready to move on from Anthony Mantha

After three relatively unsuccessful seasons with the Washington Capitals, forward Anthony Mantha could be making his way out of DC this summer.…

russianmachineneverbreaks.com

Wait…what? I know I’m advancing in age, but I don’t think I’ve got early onset dementia.

Mantha has been here THREE years??

 

[Calicaps]

Wait…what? I know I’m advancing in age, but I don’t think I’ve got early onset dementia.

Mantha has been here THREE years??

COVID time. Not a normal 3 years

 

[HecticGlow]

COVID time. Not a normal 3 years

And he was injured for a good chunk of one of those years. And invisible most of last year. So basically we’ve only really seen about 1 year of hockey from him in a Caps jersey, all told, and much of it was rather forgettable…

 

[John Price]

 

[Calicaps]

Not gonna lie... it feels like a new era in a way the cycle of older coaches never did. I sure hope it works.

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

this. i like the potential but let's be honest he hasn't coached a NHL game before. The whole Reirden saga makes me wary of coaches with no Experience.

Then again I thought Lavi would do fine here based on his track record of getting teams to the finals early

One big difference would seem to be that unlike Reirden the bulk of his experience has been as a head coach in minor league hockey - where a coach had a lot more responsibility.

This is the route taken by coaches like Trotz, Tortorella, and Cassidy and has proven successful.

Although you never can tell how things will work out.