None taken. But there's no way for anybody to know anything. We just have opinions. Again, we can have opinions that it will work. And that it won't work. No problem with that. My beef is with people who say that it's insane to bring a NHL player into an assistant job in the AHL. If so, every team is insane as they did that, they do that and they'll continue doing that.
I don't think it's insane, but I think it's ill advised. And every team being ill advised? Hum...Yes. It's something I have been saying for quite some time here. NHL teams hiring process is incredibly silly and weird, not to say flat out bad. It leads to morons like Bergevin that have absolutely no business being a GM. This isn't privy to the Habs, every team hire guys just because...they played in the NHL. I mean, it's completely fine to do so in an advisery role, but outside of that I'm not really interested in their experience as players.
Coaching is a form teaching. It's amazing to me how many times teams hire coaches that aren't good communicators or teachers but are more about the motivational-cheerleading type.
So yes, plenty of teams in the NHL are pretty mediocre at their hiring process.
Now, one might think this is just an AHL ass-coach position, but almost every prospect of ours will go through the AHL, so it's just as crucial to have very good communicators and teachers there.
Being a coach myself, I know it takes a lot of time to get into your groove and develop your style of coaching. I rather have someone who's done it in the juniors first. But hey, it's not impossible for someone like Burrows to do well. We shall see.