If your team has some coach killers on it, there will be a revolving door of coaches. That being said, sometimes coaches put a system in place that is beyond some player's ability to comprehend. Too much thinking going on and not enough instinctive actions. Sometimes simpler is better which is why trapping teams have enjoyed so much relative success over the years.
The Flames are ready for a coach that is a true tactician that adjusts his style as he goes. My first choice would be Gerard Gallant but if new blood were desired Ducharme in Montreal is more than ready for a head coaching position.
If we don't hire one of the coaches available by the end of the summer then either fire Brad for not doing his due diligence or sell the f*cking team to someone who will pay up for a coach. It's borderline unforgivable if we don't end up with one of them, throw a blank check and beg them to come here. There is something seriously f*cked with the leadership of this team, and a win against Anaheim doesn't fool me one bit.
I'm still f*cking pissed we didn't go for Vigenault when we fired Gulutzan, or Boudreau when we fired Hartley. Those are top tier coaches who would do wonders with this team.
Laviolette, Boudreau, Gallant...hell even Babcock. Actually, I'd take Babs 10/10 times over Ward. I could give a f*ck about that list controversy or the dickish persona he has. This team needs somebody they can respect or at the very least that knows how to whip some consistency into this team. I have no idea what happened under Bill Peters, but the fact that there were rumours of the team tuning him out in late October just screams to me that somethings off right now. I'm glad that Ward has the boys having fun again , and I'm honestly okay with letting him ride the season out as coach (given that those others aren't getting scooped up right away) but if by the end of the summer we're not presenting one of those four as head coach I'm f*cking done. This team isn't winning shit, I repeat ISN'T WINNING SHIT without a coach with pedigree. Banking that Ward is gonna Craig Berube us to a Stanley Cup is a pipe dream, and hiring a third rate AHL or NCAA coach doesn't work unless your core has serious leadership (ala Pittsburgh and Boston) which our core (Gio, Brodie, Monny, Gaudreau, Backs) have proven to have little or none.
That rant came out of nowhere, but man I think this team has a lot more to give, and I mean A LOT MORE. Another first round exit (dude even a second round exit isn't shit) is not good.
Meh, coaches with pedigree sometimes do well, and just as often do nothing. Coaches without a track record can similarly go either way. Pittsburgh probably doesn't regret hiring Sullivan, for instance.
I would like to have someone a bit more tantalizing than a guy who probably has never been on our shortlist during any recent hiring process, but at the same time, I think hiring someone with experience for the sake of experience can also be disastrous.
Vegas, Carolina and maybe Philly all have better rosters than us, we really aren't a very good team. I don't think any of those other teams are serious contenders. Coaching is a big factor and Ward clearly isn't the right guy for the job but I don't think getting a new coach would just fix this mess. It would have helped and should have been done a month or 2 ago but it's not going to save us and I'm beginning to doubt anything happens before the offseason.Not to go all Kevin Lowe, but if you look around the league, I don't think there are a lot of playoff/bubble teams that are clearly better than us on paper.
NYI
Philly
Columbus
Carolina
Florida
Vancouver
Edmonton
Nashville
Arizona
Dallas
Winnipeg
Maybe Vegas
I think at our best, we're better than all of those teams above. But they're all getting superior coaching than us and that can't be understated.
Coaching matters and only Bob Hartley and Darryl Sutter have ever had the Flames playing better than their potential.
If we keep spinning our tires with second-rate coaches, we might as well blow this core up. People give our players too much credit - they need more guidance than they've received
I think Carolina has a slight edge when it comes to their best 4 players (Aho, Teuvo, Svech, Dougie vs. Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Lindholm, Gio) but I think I'd still take us in a 7 game series if we had a coach who knew how to utilize our Dmen as well as Rod uses the Canes guys.Vegas, Carolina and maybe Philly all have better rosters than us, we really aren't a very good team. I don't think any of those other teams are serious contenders. Coaching is a big factor and Ward clearly isn't the right guy for the job but I don't think getting a new coach would just fix this mess. It would have helped and should have been done a month or 2 ago but it's not going to save us and I'm beginning to doubt anything happens before the offseason.
Said it before. I would gladly forfeit being a cap team if we used the money left over on a coach. Would have the additional benefit of preventing us spending on UFA trash
I'd be happy with either Laviolette or Gallant.
Unfortunately neither are going to want to take over coaching a team with 16 games remaining.
We're stuck with Ward for the rest of the year boys. Lucic will be happy. And really, isn't that all that really matters?
Good pointI think our problem is with our GM, he wants this team to play a certain way, which may not suit our team. The same thing that is happening with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
We should implement the first ever AI NHL Coach, which dispenses treats of the players choice when they do something correctly.
So for example, it will dispense skittles for Johnny, toast for Monahan, a stream of Gatorade for Lindholm, and a bag of rocks for Lucic.
Oh yeah, it's definitely the latter. To be honest, I almost wish the Flames could be considered a coach killer, because at least that would imply the team hires notable guys. Repeatedly hiring washed up has-beens like Keenan and Hartley, or uninspiring nobodies like Gulutzan (and Ward is trending that way too) is like putting a AA battery in a car engine and then wondering why it won't go.Either the Flames, as an organization, are a special kind of coach killers or they just take their pick from the scrap heap and send them back when the obvious becomes, well, obvious. I think we all know the answer (it's literally ownership and their paltry budgeting) because when the Flames likely fail to land one of Laviolette, Boudreau or Gallant, it'll really just be more of the same.