The only other theory that I have left to sell is that Quinn is great for American players because of personality and culture and not as good for European players and Quebecois players. That one might go unsold even after Quinn's demise.
whatever, maybe not his gameplan but his way of coaching, communication etc
This kind of discounts that both the first and second lines continue to try pretty passing plays. I don't subscribe to the idea that there's a leash. If Quinn really prized grinding, then the top 6 would get far fewer minutes based on how they played. And regardless of systems, they had multiple high danger chances today including odd man rushes where they failed to convert.
Plus Mika, Panarin, Buch and Fox aren’t exactly “grinder types” and they seem to work pretty well in this system
Once the rangers activate their defense, they are a different team. Yes we are young at the backend, but there is also a lot of talent there. He refuses to do it until we are down in the third. I realize you can give up an odd man rush the other way, but when it comes to the flow of the game and the puck possession the rangers have, the whole team looks way better and far more involved. I know we are young but he can’t wait until the last 15-20 min of a game to do this. Rangers had some bad luck, especially in the 2nd, but when your PP is so predictably bad, and everything on offensive has been stagnant for the first 20 let alone 40 min and you refuse to adapt, your shooting yourself in the foot. They could have tied this game if he acted earlier. Plus we are very young. Chalk it up to learning experience if you want, but IMO the coach has to realize the situation and change earlier then he did in this one.
Quinn is far to rigid when it comes to his game plan. Yes him and Knoblauch both run the same system, but they both interpret the flow of the game differently. I’m not saying knobby is far better then Quinn at interpreting the flow of the game but the defense was far more involved in our last run of games. They came on too late in this one when the caps took their foot off the gas. Then Washington clamped down. That’s what good teams do. We really didn’t have a shot to tie this thing. They did have some bad puck luck in the 2nd but at least they didn’t roll over and quit when they definitely could have. That’s a plus I guess
Some of this has to be laid at Gorton's feet. He gave Quinn this team. Some of it through lottery luck and the good fortune of getting Panarin who wanted to come here. Then there's the curiosity that is Kreider, now here for the long term. You've got the revelation of Fox counterbalanced by a hugely underwhelming Trouba. Laf and Kakko situations are not different from getting surprise children entering your life. Now you've got a couple of extra mouths to feed if you're Quinn. We're simply not in a classic rebuild situation. Quinn is in a rough situation trying to juggle multiple objectives. In a way, management should have just said let's fold and truly start from the bottom, not doing this hybrid let's try and rebuild on the fly and remain competitive and make the playoffs. The Oilers have gone through, what, five head coaches in the past 7-8 years in perpetual rebuild mode? Ironically Quinn might be gone sooner than later too.
No matter what you do trying to rebuild, there’s a period in the middle. Every team that has successfully rebuilt has a stop at middling, some shorter or longer than others. You don’t go directly from worst in the league to contenders very often if ever
I would have attempted to read this if there were paragraphs. True story.
That is we’re a real coach can show him the way. Quinn i DONT think is incapable of it. I think Quinn is so overwhelmed that he doesn’t see it. And if he does, he thinks it’s down on the list of things to correct
