Tribute Dave Tippett Appreciation thread.

[Aerchon]

He served his time and was good for this team to start. Shelf life expired and its time to move on.

Unsuccessful coaches have shelf life. Tippett was unable to get a single playoff series win and while improving some things was a tire fire in others.

Very very obviously imo the Oilers need someone significantly better to lead them to playoffs success

 

[AddyTheWrath]

Seemed like a decent guy all things considered. But hockey is a meritocracy.

He'll be back in the NHL in some capacity. I'm glad we moved on.

 

[Swanson]

Thanks but tone to move on. I never seen him adapt during the game. Pretty much relied on the brilliance of McDrai to win us games.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

I appreciate that he's gone

 

[KarmaPolice]

It never ceases to amaze me how you can find at least one person who will simp for anyone and anything.

 

[smokersarejokers]

I'm sorry. Seems like a good guy, but my God I'm glad he and Playfair are not coaching my favorite team.

Old guys in general can be stubborn and slow to change, but they took it to another level.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

I thought the combo of Tippet and Holland was the trick. (Wrong!)

Tippett did get us to the playoffs twice and I still say we were goaltendered vs Winnipeg.

That said his over reliance on 3 players (Nurse 97/29) and loyalty to Smith along with the country club atmosphere and lack of accountability on underperforming players was too much. Too bad though.

Thanks Dave, enjoy the good life down in Phoenix.

 

[Kerberos]

No appreciation for a stubborn fool who was out of his depth and shouldn't have been afforded the opportunity to retain his job.

 

[redgrant]

Suspect this team will do much better under woodcroft. Nice of him to set such a low bar for Jay.

 

[Vikingstad]

Man do sports fans get bitter, keep in touch with your human side eh?

I appreciate Tipps for getting us to the dance the last two years even if it didn't go well. It's more than any coaches in the past 15 years can say. His time was up in the room but he had some solid years here. Seems like a genuinely good person too, appreciated the interviews (other then throwing Koskinen under the bus, but let's be honest, people here do that stuff x100).

All the best to him on whatever he does in the future.

 

[Garbo Man]

Man do sports fans get bitter, keep in touch with your human side eh?

I appreciate Tipps for getting us to the dance the last two years even if it didn't go well. It's more than any coaches in the past 15 years can say. His time was up in the room but he had some solid years here. Seems like a genuinely good person too, appreciated the interviews (other then throwing Koskinen under the bus, but let's be honest, people here do that stuff x100).

All the best to him on whatever he does in the future.

I mean McLellan got us to the playoffs AND won a round so...probably a wash for me between him and Tippett

 

[Vikingstad]

I mean McLellan got us to the playoffs AND won a round so...probably a wash for me between him and Tippett

I'd argue that if it wasn't for the play in series with Hawks, whom I thought were a worse matchup than whoever we would've been up against, we could've seen an additional round under tippet too, but alas

 

[Del Preston]

Of all the coaches in the NHL, Dave Tippett certainly was one.

 

[ThePhoenixx]

From what I saw, Pre-Covid Tippett and Covid Tippett were two different coaches.

I think a great many nights he just wanted to go home.

Hopefully the detail-orientated, passionate younger coaches will turn the team around. They appear to be hungry.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Man do sports fans get bitter, keep in touch with your human side eh?

I appreciate Tipps for getting us to the dance the last two years even if it didn't go well. It's more than any coaches in the past 15 years can say. His time was up in the room but he had some solid years here. Seems like a genuinely good person too, appreciated the interviews (other then throwing Koskinen under the bus, but let's be honest, people here do that stuff x100).

All the best to him on whatever he does in the future.

Yep. Just wish Dave well in retirement. He came here, helped get the team into the playoffs twice and the team was remarkably better than it was in the two seasons preceding Tippett.

Again a lot of you are quick to remind people that its "An Appreciation thread" in other threads but are trolling this one.

 

[Drivesaitl]

I mean McLellan got us to the playoffs AND won a round so...probably a wash for me between him and Tippett

Some things are quantifiable. McLellan had a Bettman era mediocre win percentage of .538 as an Oilers coach and made playoffs once and missed twice. The team also missed the playoffs for the third time the season McLellan was fired.

Tippett has been here 2.5 seasons, almost exactly, and the team made the playoffs handily both years with a much higher win percentage. The team could too resurrect this season which is quite salvageable. Of note McLellan was fired from here in his 3rd season in a row with a losing %. Tippett has NEVER had a losing percentage any season here.

I think a lot of difference.

 

[The Nuge]

The crazy thing is he probably wouldn’t have been fired if we would have gotten to our current record a more normal way. Has a coach ever been fired mid season before having never once put up a sub 500 season with a team?

 

[Drivesaitl]

Tippitt was pretty bad, but he was never worse than Eakins.

Edmonton was a gong show of legendary proportions in the year and a half under Eakins.

I wouldn't even bother with that poster tbh.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Thanks for sharing this, and thank you to Emily for sharing this. Lest we forget there are still good people around.

 

[Marty McSurly]

The crazy thing is he probably wouldn’t have been fired if we would have gotten to our current record a more normal way. Has a coach ever been fired mid season before having never once put up a sub 500 season with a team?

Gerard Gallant, twice (Florida and Vegas)

 

[oil4life97]

Unfortunately his system didn’t seem to really mesh here with this core. We did have a pretty good record vs the Flames with him as coach. For that I say thanks. Bye Dave!

 

[Drivesaitl]

This guy might have been one of the worst coaches we have seen here. And we had rookie Dallas Eakins as coach!

Tippet had better rosters than any coach previously during the decade of darkness and only 'succeeded' if McDrai carried his fraud ass.

This poster thinks this is an "appreciation" post. sigh.

 

[longtimeoilfan]

Coaching is a job he made millions of dollars doing. The team under him didn't live up to expectations, he lost his job. That's it, that's all.

I don't feel any more sorry for him than I do any other person losing a job - less actually, he should be set financially for the rest of his life - and several lifetimes after.

 

[Mr Positive]

He was good for a time, but his drawbacks became more and more apparent and more impactful as time went on.

He probably lost the room. Sometimes a coach overstays their time. I guess for Tippett that's two years

 

[Pizza!Pizza!]

He was the coach in the same sense of someone being tasked to herd cats.

i herd cats, can i be a coach?