Coyotes and Head Coach/VP Dave Tippett Part Ways

[CHRDANHUTCH]

I agree, and think they'll have some difficulties finding a coach. They'll find someone decent or promising I'm sure, but their first, second or third choice may not be interested. Not hard to imagine a top AHL coach or former NHL coach thinking they'd rather wait for another opportunity, with all the off-ice craziness. Not ideal to coach a very young team that'll be well under the cap floor after the LTIR stuff either. I don't dislike the Yotes and mean no offense to their fans, its just not a great situation unfortunately.

totally agree, if you've ever followed the Coyotes saga, this is spot on, afaik, there is also no coach in their system even to coach prospects at this time.

 

[FinnLightning26]

Great move by the Coyotes. Tippett is not the right guy for a young team like the Coyotes are.

Hopefully there's now brighter days ahead for the Coyotes.

 

[McBaevid]

Great day for the NHL particularly fans of teams in the pacific division. Coyotes games will actually be exciting now and not an absolute snooze fest that Tippett made them to be

 

[Pyrophorus]

Wasn't he considered to be a great coach?

 

[XX]

Wasn't he considered to be a great coach?

If you need blood squeezed from a stone and have a ton of veterans looking to get over the hump, he is your man for a couple years. Beyond that, he'll suffocate your entire organization with the credibility built in those first few years. He is absolutely awful with young players, so he eventually starves himself of talent.

Maybe he'll eat a lot of humble pie and come back strong like Torts but I really doubt it.

 

[Ail]

Must be a pretty liberating feeling for Arizona fans. Hopefully they go new school for the replacement. Start purging these dinosaurs from the league that the game has passed by.

 

[King In The North]

This guy had a worse record than Gretzky yet somehow one was fired and never trusted to be a coach again and the other got promoted...?

Glad for Coyotes fans and Coyotes prospects.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

This guy had a worse record than Gretzky yet somehow one was fired and never trusted to be a coach again and the other got promoted...?

Glad for Coyotes fans and Coyotes prospects.

except there's no direction at either level, ie Barroway owns both franchises, since Arizona owns their affiliate

 

[Cherpak]

So who are the candidates for the HC position now?

 

[Dolemite]

It's about time the Coyotes finally moved out of the Wild West and NHL ownership era and want to start fresh. If they're going to do it they need to do it all the way with the front office, TV media and so on. Show the fans that the Coyotes truly are entering a new era with a new identity.

This guy had a worse record than Gretzky yet somehow one was fired and never trusted to be a coach again and the other got promoted...?

Glad for Coyotes fans and Coyotes prospects.

You're kidding, right? He had zero to work with. Free agents would avoid the team because of the ownership circus coupled with the **** pot stirring articles from the Canadian media painting the team with articles that were not true (Shoalts, Damien Cox, TSN). It always happened before the trade deadline or the first day of free agency every year. Tippett deserves a medal.

 

[Viqsi]

Hire. Sheldon. Keefe.

No Ralph Krueger?

 

[tony d]

Thought Tippett was well revered around here. Either way it's a ? move IMO for the Coyotes.

 

[YOW]

Best news in a long time. Onward and upward.

 

[SEALBound]

Coyotes I BEG OF YOU...PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do NOT hire Dan Bylsma.

 

[Ceremony]

The game between the Coyotes and the Avalanche in March this year was one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen. It was like watching two groups of children playing, one who couldn't play and one who didn't know how to play against a team that couldn't play. I think they won 1-0. Good luck to all the Coyotes fans who feel vindicated for this.

 

[Rufus]

Does this show that there is dysfunction in Arizona or that they are finally getting rid of the dysfunction?

 

[Dolemite]

Does this show that there is dysfunction in Arizona or that they are finally getting rid of the dysfunction?

Neither. The team is starting fresh across the board. It sucks for fans but it's the right thing to do in the long term.

 

[Terry Yake]

this was like 4 years overdue

yotes fans can rejoice. any idea who they target? i mean, who's even available?

 

[mouser]

Thought Tippett was well revered around here. Either way it's a ? move IMO for the Coyotes.

He was revered for a while, and deservedly so. As the years went on he showed himself to be inflexible in his coaching. Always prioritizing the short term goals over the longer term goals in his player utilization and roster construction. Not the best approach for a rebuilding team.

 

[Tom Polakis]

If Tochett is a betting man no way he goes to Arizona.

Solid post. Not many people on this board will get that reference.

 

[Cherpak]

Solid post. Not many people on this board will get that reference.

Most Pens fans are aware of Tochett's gambling issues.

 

[rt]

Solid post. Not many people on this board will get that reference.

Operation Slapshot. Great use of public funds.

 

[CrypTic]

No Ralph Krueger?

No. I want him for SJ. Please.


Congratulations, Coyotes' fans. This was long overdue. I don't want you to be good bc you're rivals but I've always hoped that the Coyotes would succeed in the Phoenix area, partly bc I want hockey in the southwest and Pacific coast, partly to shut up ppl who disparage hockey in non-traditional markets, and partly bc one of my childhood friends lived in Phoenix and is a Yotes fan.