It does seem bizarre that Bratt has yet to play over 14 minutes in any game this season.
It does seem bizarre that Bratt has yet to play over 14 minutes in any game this season.
Coming full circle as a Mickey Mouse operation.This is a **** show....this is exactly the stuff Edmonton has gone through in the last bunch of years.
Upper management saving face for bad decisions and playing games to appease non-hockey rich owners. This is just a mess...and we'll see the owners kids grow up on the draft stage year after year with the nicely sewn nameplate of the next high pick that'll turn the franchise around.
Weird how the people who already disliked the current management are willing to write off the entire season and future based on 6 games.
Maybe Hynes was trying to give more PT to the newer players instead of just balancing out the Ice time?
Just trying to make heads or tails of Hynes rationale.....
Devils best hope is that Minnesota continues to struggle and Boudreau is fired.
If we hire a new coach, we need someone who fits what Shero has been building. Someone like Boucher doesn't. Boudreau consistently manages to get his teams into the players by adapting to the line-ups he has and has done so with offensively skilled teams in Washington.
I think I said it earlier, but I'd love to see Boudreau-Stevens replace Hynes-Nasreddine
Boudreau's contract ends after this season so if he doesn't extend he'll be available in the offseason.I would imagine he will be fired in the offseason if nothing else.
Even if both teams turn around enough to save their coaches job mid-season, it doesn’t mean either guy is safe as both the Devils and Wild should end up performing below preseason expectations no matter what.
Long story short. I suspect Boudreau would be available in the offseason at worst. I am also 90% sure Hynes will not be coaching this team next season.
Devils best hope is that Minnesota continues to struggle and Boudreau is fired.
If we hire a new coach, we need someone who fits what Shero has been building. Someone like Boucher doesn't. Boudreau consistently manages to get his teams into the players by adapting to the line-ups he has and has done so with offensively skilled teams in Washington.
I think I said it earlier, but I'd love to see Boudreau-Stevens replace Hynes-Nasreddine
There’s a small contingent of posters that keep repeating this misrepresentation of how we feel, despite multiple explanations that it is not at all based on just six games. I have to assume that you’re doing it on purpose at this point.
Devils best hope is that Minnesota continues to struggle and Boudreau is fired.
If we hire a new coach, we need someone who fits what Shero has been building. Someone like Boucher doesn't. Boudreau consistently manages to get his teams into the players by adapting to the line-ups he has and has done so with offensively skilled teams in Washington.
I think I said it earlier, but I'd love to see Boudreau-Stevens replace Hynes-Nasreddine
I think IF you don't understand the system, or don't buy into it that's exactly what happens. You don't know where to be, where to go, what to do, and where your teammates are, leading to bad decisions. Having to THINK about what the coaches want you to do is enough at this level to make you hesitate enough to look like an idiot.I thought it was a jab at the coaching staff when Shero said that other teams bring in new players and don’t have this problem ....
It’s almost like they forgot how to play hockey .
Exactly how the team looked during the Johnny Mac coaching days
Lemaire even said as such when he took over. It was almost like they all forgot how to play. Everything is all cluster f@#%/‘d up and players are confused that nothing works and confidence is trashed
If Shero was solely putting blame on the players Fitz wouldn’t be down there relaying information to him, Hynes would be doing that and thats all Shero would need if he trusts the coaches. Fitz is down there because Shero knows this is a coaching issue as well.
What impact players did he develop for Pitt? Outside of role players in Doumilin & Rust I cant think of any. Sprong was supposed to be a great prospect for them he was waived by the ducks.I think Hynes was look at as the possible “next best coach”. He essentially was a rookie AHL coach with strong attributes in player development. He got lucky in 2017 and things looked great but there is a reason he did coaching gigs outside of the NHL (Worlds). It was supposed to help him develop as a better coach. Furthermore, you can’t pin it all on Hynes, it looks like a full on mutiny at this point. I am not saying the new guys are cancer, but maybe they don’t buy in. Remember, Shero/Hynes flew out to to see Hall at his house in the offseason and had a heart to heart, because he he played like turds his first season here.
Seriously?!?!? This is what we get?
This is like when the Chinese send a "helper" from the government to "work" at your company.
I'm so sick of all this.
I think I'm limiting my HFBoards use to the TAN and GDTs until Hynes is gone. It's not worth the aggravation discussing the fact this horrendous coach with no knowledge of defensive hockey is still employed by the Devils.