LegionOfDoom91
Registered User
I still don’t think Lappy is a good PK coach.
Dave Hakstol Fired and Scott Gordon Named Interim Head Coach (Discussion Thread)
- Thread starter MiamiScreamingEagles
- Start date
- Status
Hiesenberg
Registered User
- Jul 2, 2013
- 15,576
- 1,875
I'm skeptical to say this team has just figured it out. They certainly seem more focused, skating and passing better, the complete lapses of garbage defense have not been there.
I gotta see it for like a month though. I find it hard to believe Hakstol was holding them back this much, but hey, maybe he was.
I gotta see it for like a month though. I find it hard to believe Hakstol was holding them back this much, but hey, maybe he was.
Chinatown88
Daniels QB3
Well to be fair toiling on a beet farm for most of the day will hold you down a lot.
I imagine you'll be hard pressed to find anyone on these boards who thinks our 2-0 record is the new norm and we're going to storm to the first seed.
What you see is a lot of people excited for players to get opportunities we all (well, most) thought they deserved, and would thrive in. We're excited that the team doesn't play negative hockey. We're excited that the gameplay - while certainly still imperfect - is at least exciting to watch. We're excited that there are changes and that every game doesn't look exactly the same.
There's a part of this success that has to do with "new coach fever" with players getting some confidence back and looking like they enjoy playing again. You'd have to be a fool to believe that every single thing that is wrong with this team was Haksols fault. But you'd also have to be a fool to think that he wasnt causing a good portion of it.
- Sep 28, 2014
- 76,732
- 123,273
Fletcher fired Yeo a few years back and promoted Torchetti to interim. He got them on track and took them to the playoffs. Fletcher then hired Boudreau over Torchetti that summer.
After the game last I was just thinking about the abortion that was flyers depth during hextall era and what sort of players were depended upon.
Umberger
White
Filps
Torgo
Gordon
Weise
Manning
Vdv
Amax
Schultz
Mdz
Fat Schenn
Gagner
Cousins
...
You know the kind of talent that can't stick in the league. And then you have other trash like Corban knight, Oduya or Goulborne enexplicably finding their way into a team.
Good riddance man!
Hiesenberg
Registered User
- Jul 2, 2013
- 15,576
- 1,875
Hextall's call ups were predictable too, they were barely on merit, he said he called up based on injury replacement and that type of player having to be replaced.
He also didn't call up anybody just because they were doing good in the AHL while he had terrible players in the NHL.
There was almost no hope of in house replacements under Hextall, unless a trade or injury.
He also didn't call up anybody just because they were doing good in the AHL while he had terrible players in the NHL.
There was almost no hope of in house replacements under Hextall, unless a trade or injury.
Amorgus
Registered User
I completely forgot that Oduya was ever on the team. Which is a fantastic thing.
Could you ever imagine it to be outdone by bringing in pickard? God knows it's damn hard to find even shittier goaltending than what flyers had the past couple of years, but hexy sure did it.
Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
Unless the trade brings back a cap dump, in which case said cap dump becomes a roster staple.
- Sep 28, 2014
- 76,732
- 123,273
Imagine how demoralizing it must have been for certain players on the Phantoms knowing that their good play would never be rewarded because Hextall already decided their fate. This is why I am happy to see Varone get the call-up. If you play well at your level, you deserve a shot when needed. Should be that simple.
Hiesenberg
Registered User
- Jul 2, 2013
- 15,576
- 1,875
Another annoying thing. Just cut those guys lose, buy them out, trade them for junk. Just get them off the team, but somehow he hated looking like those guys were cap dumps so he left them on the roster to play major minutes.
i'm not sure at this point. the thing i am noticing, is that all of the coaches are alot more active with the players during the game now. also see gordon confering with knob alot. i could be wrong, but i think hak ran the team like hex ran the front office.
Sombastate
Registered User
I don't think its up for debate whether Hak was a good coach. I'll throw a few people a bone and include "for this team," but this team looks significantly better.
Most importantly, though, the minutes that people weren't getting is the biggest sign. You can say he had the wrong people for his system, but his player utilization was just an absolute fire pit where good decisions went to die.
Most importantly, though, the minutes that people weren't getting is the biggest sign. You can say he had the wrong people for his system, but his player utilization was just an absolute fire pit where good decisions went to die.
Captain Dave Poulin
Imaginary Cat
Magua
Entirely Palatable Product
If “Fire Hakstok” was included our HFBoarders would surge up those rankings to the point others wouldn’t even be worth mentioning.
Captain Dave Poulin
Imaginary Cat
Yeah, and I also got an extremely late start on there or I would have scorched them all. I was really slightly rabid about it in the end. Thanks to my cool, calm demeanor and very serious taeks, it was difficult to see, but I had become slightly unhinged vis a vis the coaching.
So it's your fault for getting a late start that we had to endure Hak for longer than we needed to . Now it is starting to make sense : Fire Cap'n !!!!!!
- Sep 28, 2014
- 76,732
- 123,273
For those wondering, I am @Lattanzio_57 on that list
Cap and I were doing Gods work
Cap and I were doing Gods work
Captain Dave Poulin
Imaginary Cat
Yep, but ****ing Twitter drives me nuts, so I couldn't spend that much time in there.
Captain Dave Poulin
Imaginary Cat
For those wondering, I am @Lattanzio_57 on that list
Cap and I were doing Gods work
What we should have done was pass a few more of those "#FireHakstol" blocks back and forth, but I thought it would drive people crazy. All 12 of my followers.
BernieParent
In misery of redwings of suckage for a long time
Deadhead is a nonplayer character?!?
Sombastate
Registered User
Amorgus
Registered User
Great, here comes a "Please collect ten mushrooms" quest...
I was going to say it was the "Please catch my chickens" quest that's in practically every RPG but that'd be Cap's request.
bauer
I MISS GHOST
- Nov 11, 2007
- 4,599
- 4,766
it's no secret that Hakstol really hated Sanheim. the game he scored 2 goals he got 12 minutes. every time he scored he'd get benched. almost like he was being punished for generating offense.
- Status
