I've said it before, but there are very few truly great coaches in this league, a few truly awful ones, and probably about 15-20 coaches in the middle that all have their own little annoying quirks. To me, Hynes is in that middle group. I think he is a bit slow to adjust strategically, and he has some of the same rewarding the "good soldier" mentality that a lot of coaches have (see Babcock still employing the likes of Matt Martin and Roman Polak). I think there's no doubt though that the players buy in to what he's saying, and the fact that we just had a 97 point season and made the playoffs in year 3 of the new regime is pretty impressive.