Kings Hire Adam Oates as a consultant

[alko]

Hm, how much will they pay for such consultant?

 

[Chuck Norris Trophy]

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Hope he can be the one that tells Doughty that his slappers never work

Eh, am I the only one who thinks he shouldn't be working for a specific team and with players from the whole league at the same time through his own company? Conflict of interest, anyone? To me there seems to be possibilities for some shady action.

 

[BackToTheBasics]

I'm wrong?

So Ovechkin scored 32 goals and 38 goals. The 2 lowest of his career the two years prior to Oates.

Then when Oates became coach, he scores 32 in 48 games (Rocket / Hart winner) and 51 goals (Rocket Winner).

What's the story then?

Oates did help revive Ovechkin's PP goal scoring. He created what's now known as the "Ovi spot". Before Oates arrived, Ovechkin scored 7 and 13 PP goals in the previous 2 seasons. After he arrived, his PP goals sky rocketed into the 20's. So yes, Oates deserves a lot of credit for making Ovechkin as prolific of a PP goal scorer as he is today.

As far as ES goal scoring goes, he didn't really do much to help him out there. Before Oates, Ovechkin was scoring ~25 ES goals in the previous 2 seasons. He was on pace for the same amount in the lockout season and scored the same amount in the one full season he played under Oates. Oates also forced him to play RW which was obviously not a position he was comfortable with but he did what Oates wanted regardless. Most of his goals came from the left side despite playing RW anyways but Oates was too stubborn to move him back. He was far less dynamic then he could have been if he was allowed to play his normal position.

Oates also had him playing along side of scrubs like Beagle at the time for long stretches. Trotz also played him with Beagle but that was usually with Backstrom centering the line, not Jay Beagle. I remember a stretch in 2014 I think where he didn't score a single ES goal for a month but Beagle continued to center his line despite his slump.

 

[Choralone]

Eh, am I the only one who thinks he shouldn't be working for a specific team and with players from the whole league at the same time through his own company? Conflict of interest, anyone? To me there seems to be possibilities for some shady action.

Like how? How could this be abused?

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

Adam Oates
Power Play Guru.
Here is some of his handy work with Devils.

 

[kingsfan28]

Coming from a Caps fan, beware of Oates! When he was the Caps coach, he was telling the Caps goalie coach on how to coach the goalies! Oates can be very arrogant and egotistical. I hope he doesn't ruin the Kings player development program, even as a consultant!

Our goalie guys are safe. Ranford is the boss and everyone knows it.

 

[dcmeatloaf]

Credit to RMNB.

 

[torniojaws]

Keep Quick as far away from Oates as possible.

Already in the hospital, long term