The only Coyotes coach to make the playoffs 3 years in a row and our only WCF birth, doing it with mirrors, multiple owners and no budget. Lets see Tocc or anybody, I mean anybody, equal or beat those accomplishments as a Coyotes coach.He could do well there. I said as much. I don't see them as a great fit, personally, but we'll see. I've said a million times that he's a good coach with a veteran team who can squeeze more from veteran players. He's just stubborn and terrible at development which he himself sees as not his job. He's said as much. He also has a short shelf life which is why we hit the skids despite letting him pick his own roster and bench people for 40 games at a time while we pretended a Cinderella run was the "real" Coyotes.
Exactly.DT will turn Buffalo around overnight with that talent.The only Coyotes coach to make the playoffs 3 years in a row and our only WCF birth, doing it with mirrors, multiple owners and no budget. Lets see Tocc or anybody, I mean anybody, equal or beat those accomplishments as a Coyotes coach.
If DT gets hired, time will tell.Even if Buffalo gets back to respectability, that division is a bit of a nightmare. Tampa, Toronto, Boston will all be good again. Montreal is right there, so is Florida. Detroit isn't far off either.
I backed Tippett in AZ up until he didn't want to move on from Smith and Doan. It was time. But I wish him well. He's the best coach in franchise history. There better be a jumbotron tribute at the ready when the Sabres come into Glendale.
Hung on to the garbage? That's all he had to work with. The NHL gave DM no money. What the hell were they suppose to do?I turned on him in 2014-15 when we all knew we had to rebuild, but hung on to the garbage instead. It's not all on Tipp. Noone has ever said Tippett was the only problem with the franchise. But he was a godawful fit for where we had to go. Keeping him and trying to force it to work set back the franchise.
If we'd fired him when the wheels fell off, I'd have only fond memories. Instead we went through a grueling multi-year breakup process until it was untenable for everyone to the point that rumours were he was about to be fired with cause. That's basically unheard of.
Hung on to the garbage? That's all he had to work with. The NHL gave DM no money. What the hell were they suppose to do?
I see you are technically correct. Maybe we should start a "same crap out of the same people" thread, I'd feel very safe not going there.Actually, it's the "Around the NHL" thread... The Sabres are actually somewhere around the NHL.. Somewhere around the bottom, but around nonetheless.
There is a dedicated playoffs thread for the feint of heart. Pretty sure Tippett and "the playoffs" haven't come up together in seven years, so you'll be safe there.
I never liked McLellan as a coach, but Hitch is good, just didn't have enough time to sort things out. I think the Oilers could be next years Colorado.Ehh, I don't think the Oilers really had a coaching issue. McLellan and Hitchcock are good coaches.
I see a team with 3 really good centres and not much else.