I would add something about making Ferrence captain
Don't even....
I would add something about making Ferrence captain
I would add something about making Ferrence captain
What makes it worse is that the Toronto media spun this guy to look like a genius to the end that we were one of apparently 3 teams trying to hire him.
What makes it worse is that the Toronto media spun this guy to look like a genius to the end that we were one of apparently 3 teams trying to hire him.
Was this actually his decision? IIRC, they signed the guy on July 1 and he was named captain before training camp. Seems more like a management move to me.Good point. Another questionable Eakins decision. The list of his gaffes is very long.
Eakins is a big analytics talker, but he doesnt know how to use the numbers. The media in TO love a good Corsi Queener.
Was this actually his decision? IIRC, they signed the guy on July 1 and he was named captain before training camp. Seems more like a management move to me.
True. MacT did say Eakins was the decision he'd be judged on. Of course there's no way MacT could have known then how slow ownership is to hand down judgement/how many times you can drop the ball before you get fired by the ragtag organization.
You can't say that Draisaitl was bad drafting because he wasn't a defenceman. Fleury was the top ranked defenceman after Ekblad and he went 7th. Fleury isn't lighting the world on fire either. And the year before they took Nurse over Nichushkin.
You can argue bad asset management, poor drafting in the later rounds or that they should have taken Bennett but to say they screwed up by not taking Fleury is just plain wrong. I want MacTavish fired but the only way to do that is to repeat the facts.
Dallas came in and tried to reinvent the wheel. His swarm style of play worked in the AHL because players there were slower and not as talented so if you just kept pressuring the guy with the puck, eventually they would make a mistake and turn it over. In the NHL, guys just flip it to the open man, causing insanely good scoring chances against. And Eakins absolutely refused to see this. He thought the problem was that the kids just didn't understand how to play his system, so practices consisted of lots of talking and leisurely skating. And then in games we'd bleed prime scoring chances because the team commonly had 3 and 4 players chasing one guy.
I think fundamentally he's a pretty good coach who tries to preach the right principles. I just think the situation in Edmonton was so far-gone that not even a Hall of Fame coach could have reeled things back in.
We can probably make this conversation far more brief if we simply asked, "Dallas Eakins... what went right?"
Very well written post, but 100% nonsense from my POV.
Where should EDM have finnished in the standings during these years in your opinion? Last ok, where did they finnish? Last.
That's the problem. This is a very poorly constructed team by McTavish. And I know a cluster **** when I see one, been a Rangerfan for the last 30 years.
He was pretty much doomed from the get go. A revolving door of coaches and they hire a rookie coach who preaches fitness and accountability....
Nothing went wrong. Edmonton hired him based on the hype stirred by Derren Dregger. It was funny becuase Canucks fans also wanted Dallas Eakins for some stupid reason.
Edmonton also need to stop going after rookie coaches at this point, and stop going after rookie GM's too.
the dude is so hollywood.
when he freaked out about hall getting water in his hair that pretty much summed up Dallas Eakins.
Under Krueger...they barely missed the playoffs. The first mistake was firing him.
He was the head coach of the Edmonton Oilers. That's what.
Doomed from the beginning? I agree in that no coach would be able to turn the Oilers around in such little time.
What did Edmonton fans hate about Eakins specifically though?