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To be fair, some of these horrible goaltending situations and shootout ineptitude, was in fact partly on him.
He couldn't pick a shootout lineup to save his life. We actually went 3-1 this year in shootouts after he left. Mostly because Jacob Josefson had become a pretty good shootout player for us. He was barely used under DeBoer and even a healthy scratch a lot of the time.
DeBoer constantly used the usual suspects, who constantly bombed and repeatedly sucked in the shootout. The only time he got creative since Parise and Kovalchuk left, was one of his last shootouts before he was fired. He used a couple defensemen and started using Scott Gomez. We still lost that shootout, but at least he TRIED something new. But because it didn't work, he went back to using Adam Henrique (a career one for TWELVE in shootouts) and the same guys who couldn't score on an empty net in a shootout. Kept using Jagr and Michael Ryder, Travis Zajac too. These four had one shootout goal in two seasons between the 4 of them.
And his goaltending sunk the team? This is partially on him as well. Brodeur gets injured in February of the 2013 lockout season and misses a month. DeBoer started Johan Hedberg EVERY game during this stretch, despite him stinking up the joint and giving up multiple BAD goals per game sometimes. He pulled Hedberg one game and used Keith Kinkaid the rest of that game. Kinkaid had never played an NHL game before, though he played well in relief of that game. Then Dumbeor goes back to Hedberg again. Should have went with Kinkaid to try and change something, but usual stubborn ass Dumbeor doesn't know how to make adjustments.
Then in 13-14 we get Schneider. He splits the first 8 games of the season between the two. After Brodeur starts off that season with 3 or 4 HORRIFICALLY BAD games, he finally lets Schneider run with it. Then Schneider gets injured and he goes back to Brodeur. Brodeur actually played very good for about a month there, it was his last hot streak of good play in his career. Then Schneider steals a game against LAK by making 35 saves on 36 shots or something, with like 5-10 breakaway/odd man rush saves. So he goes back to Brodeur in a game against the Sharks. Fair enough, Brodeur was still playing good. We lose that game 2-1, Brodeur played very good in this game, not his fault we lost. This was the game that Burns shot hit him in the back of the head late in the game and he laid on the ice for a minute. That was pretty much the end of Marty, as he never played more than 2 or 3 good games in a row after this.
But instead of rewarding Schneider for his game in LA, he goes back to Brodeur 2 nights later after a cross country flight. Brodeur said he ''Wanted'' this game. Brodeur only allows 2 goals, but the game winner was a BAD softy. Schneider still doesn't play the next game and he once again goes back to Brodeur. We were sunk in this game due to at least 2 bad softies and Schneider said he was surprised that morning that he wasn't starting. So after this, Schneider finally gets back in.
DeBoer still leaned on Brodeur too much, until Schneider appeared to take the job after new years. Then after the Olympic break, he caves to Brodeur and starts playing him more again because of his public voicing of displeasure over not playing. And then Schneider's play takes a serious hit. Brodeur was played more after this, even after Schneider won a few games and Brodeur lost some. Brodeur wasn't playing as bad as Schneider for this stretch, he was just playing mediocrely. Not great either. Then DeBoer with the season on the line, decides to play Brodeur against Phoenix. He only allowed 2 goals, but the first goal was terrible and he looked like he literally fell asleep on it. We lost in a shootout. DeBoer said he played Brodeur because he was ''Rested'' down the stretch.
Then after Brodeur gives up 3 on 8 to Florida, he's yanked for Schneider and we win the game. Schneider stars every game until we're officially eliminated from playoff contention after that. So he finally went back to Schneider, but we were pretty much done and it was too late.
DeBoer didn't help the bad goaltending situation. He chose to play a bad Hedberg when Brodeur was injured, instead of taking a chance that one year.
He's the SLOWEST at making any kind of adjustments.
Long post I know, but I know first hand that this isn't the guy we want here.
Hey thanks for your insights.
Yeah, coaches who can't make adjustments aren't what this Shark team needs. TMac I felt was incredibly slow at making adjustments and then made horrendous adjustments that made little sense and never worked when he finally caved in.
Say what you guys will about Yawney, but as an assistant coach we got to the conference finals twice with him. Yawney is assistant coach for the Ducks right now, and where are they now? The conference finals? Can't be a coincidence.
