Confirmed with Link: Colliton fired

[Marotte Marauder]

It is a MUCH easier situation for King to come in after JC than it was JC coming in for Q.

Big difference.

 

[BobbyJet]

You can be professional all you want, not being in the right mental state of mind affects your game. A coach can easily affect your mental well being, and if its constantly negative, its not good for you. Teams change coaches and start performing well just because it's a new, fresh start, without system changes, probably because their mind is more at ease. Effort has nothing to do about what I am talking about.

Yep, it's called human nature and at this level a happy player/team will usually outperform an uptight, unhappy group.
I doubt that euphoria lasts, however. Hopefully, the addition of Kalynuk and/or Caleb along with other line-up tweaks (e.g a Reichel promotion) and a consistent MAF/Lanks will make a difference going forward.

 

[Space umpire]

It affects your work when you don’t like, trust your boss.
Or when you think the guy is unqualified.
I get what Pez wrote earlier but what if “the room” all feels the same?

JC lost me for the final time when he handed the marker board to the players.
How many of them thought “this guy has no f***ing clue?”
He should have been drawing out the play they worked on under his tutelage for an hour last week.

 

[coolhand]

It is a MUCH easier situation for King to come in after JC than it was JC coming in for Q.

Big difference.

I am thinking that any coach that came in after Q was going to have a difficult time, especially with the core vets and maybe not so much with the young players.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

I am thinking that any coach that came in after Q was going to have a difficult time, especially with the core vets and maybe not so much with the young players.

and especially given fanbase wanted bowman out too

 

[LordKOTL]

It affects your work when you don’t like, trust your boss.
Or when you think the guy is unqualified.
I get what Pez wrote earlier but what if “the room” all feels the same?

JC lost me for the final time when he handed the marker board to the players.
How many of them thought “this guy has no f***ing clue?”
He should have been drawing out the play they worked on under his tutelage for an hour last week.

I look at it like this: If you have a good boss you'll go to bat for them and work harder for them because they know they got your back.
If you have a bad boss you won't: You'll usually work *just* hard enough not to get fired or demoted. You'll follow your minimum expectations and that's it.

Adding onto this if enough employees think the boss is bad and they collectively work just hard enough not to get fired or demoted, it's going to reflect very badly on the boss--especially if the job relies on teamwork and the individuals act less like a team and more like separate individuals. Pride in the work takes a back seat to getting the bad boss ousted, and if that doesn't look like it'll happen the good employees will move to greener pastures.

I get the feeling this might have happened in the 'hawks locker room. I wasn't there so I'm just spitballing.

As for whether or not King is the answer? We shall see. So far we won 3 of the 3 games with King and the team looked less like 19 individuals and more like a team. I think we'll see what King actually is near the TDL. I'm not going to anoint him the next big thing because everything might just be due to the coaching change.

 

[Pez68]

Playing professional sports isn't anything like a normal job, so I always find it strange when people draw comparisons to "work". Coaching isn't anything like being a normal boss, either.

 

[CallMeShaft]

 

[Giovi]

 

[CallMeShaft]

RELEASE: Cookson Hired as Assistant Coach, Crawford Named Associate Coach

Cookson, 60, was most recently an assistant coach with HC Lugano of the National League in Switzerland from December 2019 to April 2021. There, he coached current Blackhawks forward Philipp Kurashev.

Found this interesting. He's already familiar with Kurashev. Hopefully a familiar face can help Phil get outta his funk.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Playing professional sports isn't anything like a normal job, so I always find it strange when people draw comparisons to "work". Coaching isn't anything like being a normal boss, either.

They aren't, no. But, they are similar in the fact that your coach(boss) can make your job/life miserable.

 

[Pez68]

They aren't, no. But, they are similar in the fact that your coach(boss) can make your job/life miserable.

That really doesn't happen anymore. Coaching has evolved.

 

[Giovi]

That really doesn't happen anymore. Coaching has evolved.

John Tortorella says "hi".

 

[Giovi]

That really doesn't happen anymore. Coaching has evolved.

John Tortorella says "hi".

Michel Therrien and Daryl Sutter too.

 

[Pez68]

So, a handful of coaches in the entire league?

 

[Hattrick Kane]

I don’t think it can be understated how much Crawford is helping King wade through this mess. Having a veteran presence who has had plenty of success is going to help the learning curve.

I imagine Derek is asking Crow as much as he can and developing a system together, instead of Colliton being stubborn and Crawford trying to adapt to that disaster system.

 

[ClydeLee]

Amazes me he was with Calgary for over 10 years under like 4 or 5 coaches. Both Sutter, Mike Kennan, and more

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

This would have been a funny thread title if instead of "Colliton Fired" there was a typo and it said "Colliton Fried"

Similarly to the legendary "Brain" Cambpell thread that devolved into zombie jokes.

 

[TheDoorDoctor]

Btw is there a real definition of ‘associate coach?’

 

[Hawkaholic]

So, a handful of coaches in the entire league?

I wasnt talking about coaches that scream and yell. People dont get a long sometimes, and can make lives miserable in different ways. It's clear some players didn't enjoy JC as a coach. It's not really that complicated.

 

[Drumman44]

Btw is there a real definition of ‘associate coach?’

Senior Vice Duke of Coaching

 

[Giovi]

So, a handful of coaches in the entire league?

There's fewer hard-ass coaches than their used to be. And their methods are less and less effective on todays' player. But there are still some of those guys working. And there are still GMs out there willing to hire that type of coach.

 

[BobbyJet]

There's fewer hard-ass coaches than their used to be. And their methods are less and less effective on todays' player. But there are still some of those guys working. And there are still GMs out there willing to hire that type of coach.

I think if you were a fly on the wall in most NHL dressing rooms you would change that view.

 

[Giovi]

I think if you were a fly on the wall in most NHL dressing rooms you would change that view.

Doubtful. None of the noted hard assed coaches have had abundant success lately. Torts career was circling the drain even before he "left" his last post. Now he's doing TV, hoping to be the next Cherry. Babcock is pretty much persona non grata in the NHL. Therrien took an assistants job to keep working. Sutter seems to be an outlier right now.

 

[x Tame Impala]

The Leafs coach seems like a real tool bag. Says f*** all the time. Just seems like an annoying person to work with everyday