Speculation: Kevin Dineen.... next head coach for Canes

[A Star is Burns]

I don't find most of those names to be particularly awe inspiring, though there are a few that would I would at least be intrigued by. A decent portion of those guys aren't likely to get into head coaching again at this level. It's probably worth waiting to see who gets canned at the end of the season and if they might be a fit for our situation as well.

I personally wouldn't be opposed to another person without NHL head coaching experience, but if that were the case, preferably someone that has more experience as a head coach at some level than the half a season of experience Muller had as a head coach.

 

[cptjeff]

The only guys with a track record and outside the org are the guys garnet listed. So who do you want from that list?

Keenan. For the lulz.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Keenan. For the lulz.

I still can never forget Keenan keeping Kovalev out there for that extended shift (was it 7-8 min?) because he wasn't changing fast enough. Then Kovalev scores near the end to boot.

 

[rocky7]

I guess a European coach is just out of the question........

 

[TheOllieC]

We should hire team Finland's coach who I believe coaches for Jokerit.

He's rumored to be joining CBJ in some role after this year but we can convince him to go to Carolina since we have Ruut...

Nevermind

 

[garnetpalmetto]

I guess a European coach is just out of the question........

Sure, let's have a Pens/Ivan Hlinka situation where the team tunes out their coach because nobody but 1 or 2 guys on the team can understand him. Have there been any modern-era Euro coaches other than Suhonen (who lasted less than a year with Chicago) and Hlinka, now that I think about it?

 

[DaveG]

I guess a European coach is just out of the question........

I've been waiting for Jukka Jalonen to get a shot in the NHL for a while.

 

[rocky7]

I've been waiting for Jukka Jalonen to get a shot in the NHL for a while.

yep, but unfortunately the NHL hasn't really evolved enough yet. still recycling their dinosaurs. I think we will eventually see an influx of European coaching staffs though.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

yep, but unfortunately the NHL hasn't really evolved enough yet. still recycling their dinosaurs. I think we will eventually see an influx of European coaching staffs though.

Or, maybe, coaching styles would differ overseas in terms of favoring the big ice surface. And of course the language barrier. But don't let that get in the way of "the NHL is a joke, I can't believe I never made it/haven't gotten an interview yet, after all, I played Midget AAA."

 

[My Special Purpose]

Sure, let's have a Pens/Ivan Hlinka situation where the team tunes out their coach because nobody but 1 or 2 guys on the team can understand him.

That's 1 or 2 guys more than Muller.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Draft Kaspri Kapenen. Hire Sami as coach. Profit?

 

[Navin R Slavin]

We should hire team Finland's coach who I believe coaches for Jokerit.

An aside: I happen to be in Helsinki on business this week, and discovered that Jokerit has joined the KHL for next year. Maybe that's not news to some, but I was floored.

And lemme tell you: the timing is *bad* for a Finnish team to be joining the KHL right now. Every conversation I've had this week has had some allusion to the Winter War.

--hank

 

[garnetpalmetto]

An aside: I happen to be in Helsinki on business this week, and discovered that Jokerit has joined the KHL for next year. Maybe that's not news to some, but I was floored.

And lemme tell you: the timing is *bad* for a Finnish team to be joining the KHL right now. Every conversation I've had this week has had some allusion to the Winter War.

--hank

If you see any of Jokerit's goalies adopt this as a mask design you'll know something's up.

 

[DaleCooper]

There is definitely an old boys club in the NHL that seems to stifle creativity. In English soccer Arsene Wenger was really the first successful foreign manager, but now you look at the Premier League and 9 of the 20 managers are from outside the British Isles. I wonder when or if ever the NHL will have such an awakening.

 

[Oenatzu]

An aside: I happen to be in Helsinki on business this week, and discovered that Jokerit has joined the KHL for next year. Maybe that's not news to some, but I was floored.

And lemme tell you: the timing is *bad* for a Finnish team to be joining the KHL right now. Every conversation I've had this week has had some allusion to the Winter War.

--hank

The decision to sell half of the team to a group of Russians and join the KHL was made almost a year ago when the political situation with Russia wasn't nearly this tense.

Welcome to Helsinki!

 

[garnetpalmetto]

There is definitely an old boys club in the NHL that seems to stifle creativity. In English soccer Arsene Wenger was really the first successful foreign manager, but now you look at the Premier League and 9 of the 20 managers are from outside the British Isles. I wonder when or if ever the NHL will have such an awakening.

Had Suhonen and Hlinka not made such a hash of things in 2000/2001, it likely would have happened more. In the meanwhile, though, I think it'll take a long time to recover from one of those guys coaching less than a year and the other being publicly criticized by as influential a figure as Mario all while North America continues to produce a flourishing coaching pipeline that supplies head coaches to places like Europe. It very well may happen, but I doubt a club like the Canes will be the first to make the move. If anybody, maybe Columbus given how well Kekäläinen has been for them as a GM thus far.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

The decision to sell half of the team to a group of Russians and join the KHL was made almost a year ago when the political situation with Russia wasn't nearly this tense.

Yep. But boy, folks I've talked with here are seriously unhappy about the turn of events since.

Welcome to Helsinki!

Kiitos! Always enjoy my time here. It's nicer here than Raleigh right now, LOL. Time to head down to Kamppi.

--hank

 

[Vagrant]

Is this some kind of sick Jokerit?

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Is this some kind of sick Jokerit?

 

[RodTheBawd]

I might have missed it, but are there (m)any Euro coaches at the AHL level?

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

I might have missed it, but are there (m)any Euro coaches at the AHL level?

No head coaches. Not sure if there are any assistants.

 

[Anton Babchuk]

semin for coach/captain/GM

 

[Cane mutiny]

Darius Kasparaitis has been coaching in the Russian league for a few years now. He was always an in-your-face guy. I bet he would a the very least shake this team up ... make them change their undies now and then.

 

[Razputyn]

If you see any of Jokerit's goalies adopt this as a mask design you'll know something's up.

I will see this in my dreams tonight.

Sidenote: reminds me of a game the last company I worked for in the Triangle developed. I'm wondering if this is where they got it from...

 

[FosterHewitt]

You can have Randy Carlyle!