Confirmed with Link: Mike Bales resigns as goaltending coach

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Headline: Mike Bales

 

[cptjeff]

Hextall's unemployed and has experience with both.

"Okay Petr, in today's lesson we're going to practice spearing the ref in the balls."

 

[Lempo]

"Okay Petr, in today's lesson we're going to practice spearing the ref in the balls."

"VENGEANCE!"

 

[HisIceness]

Interesting. I get why Steve Smith went to Buffalo last year as he had an opportunity to coach the next Nik Lidstrom.

This one I'm not sure, but best of luck to him there

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Interesting. I get why Steve Smith went to Buffalo last year as he had an opportunity to coach the next Nik Lidstrom.

This one I'm not sure, but best of luck to him there

He has ties to the Sabre's GM from their time in Pittsburgh together.

 

[HisIceness]

Gotcha, makes sense then.

 

[Unsustainable]

Time to bring in Irbe

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Time to bring in Irbe

Seems like he'd be good at coaching smaller goalies, but who knows?

 

[Unsustainable]

Seems like he'd be good at coaching smaller goalies, but who knows?

He was a GC before, has history, checks the Canes boxes.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

He was a GC before, has history, checks the Canes boxes.

I don't know that he's actually super happy with that history and the way it ended.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Sign Ward for 1 year (as a 3rd NHL goalie) to be a mentor to and offer an insurance policy for Nedeljkovic. Transition him to an official coaching staff position the following season.

 

[vorbis]

IIRC Bales' departure from Pittsburgh was also weird, abrupt, and oddly timed. so maybe it's just a thing with this guy. maybe he's forthright with management about his professional goals and has the respect with his colleagues to be granted amicable severance of his contract. orrr, maybe something nefarious is afoot. but the former seems like the more likely scenario.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

Well ****. That's too bad, he did a great job handling two very different goalies.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Sign Ward for 1 year (as a 3rd NHL goalie) to be a mentor to and offer an insurance policy for Nedeljkovic. Transition him to an official coaching staff position the following season.

Ward is a bit of a weird case of bad metrics, good record the last 2 years.

2017/18: 41 games of Cam Ward - Canes won at a 100 point pace. 41 games of Scott Darling - Canes won at a 66 point pace: SV% .906
2018/19: 32 games of Cam Ward - Hawks won at a 92 point pace. 37 games of Crawford - Hawks won at a 73 point pace: SV% .897

EDIT: That said, I think we've moved on from Ward and should probably stay moved on.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Looking more and more like he's headed to Buffalo. If so, they have Krueger (ex Canes scout), Smith (ex. D coach), Bales (ex Goalie coach) and there are some rumblings they have interest in Vellucci as an assistant...though not sure how valid those rumblings are.

 

[A Star is Burns]

Sign Ward for 1 year (as a 3rd NHL goalie) to be a mentor to and offer an insurance policy for Nedeljkovic. Transition him to an official coaching staff position the following season.

Ew, no. I'll take Tokarski over Ward for insurance, and that's not saying much. If he wants to get into coaching, cool I guess. He can start with Charlotte.

 

[Svechhammer]

Looking more and more like he's headed to Buffalo. If so, they have Krueger (ex Canes scout), Smith (ex. D coach), Bales (ex Goalie coach) and there are some rumblings they have interest in Vellucci as an assistant...though not sure how valid those rumblings are.

Stockpiling coaches who were a part of the 'systemic acceptance of mediocrity', as Brindy pretty much put it with CanesCountry last week doesn't worry me. More power to them, actually. Especially now that they've signed Skinner as long as they have.

We'll be fine. Only one who may hurt is Vellucci, but he needed an opportunity to grow his resume, and he was probably blocked from doing that here.

 

[My Special Purpose]

Evidently, Skinner had his supporters among the previous regime. I didn't know losing him was going to lead to a mass exodus of coaches, and definitely didn't see the goalie coach being part of it.

 

[Ole Gil]

Buy out Scott Darling, then sign him as Goalie coach.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Stockpiling coaches who were a part of the 'systemic acceptance of mediocrity', as Brindy pretty much put it with CanesCountry last week doesn't worry me. More power to them, actually. Especially now that they've signed Skinner as long as they have.

We'll be fine. Only one who may hurt is Vellucci, but he needed an opportunity to grow his resume, and he was probably blocked from doing that here.

I really don't see it that way.
- Brindy said he wanted Smith to stay, but Smith chose to leave. Saying he was part of the systematic acceptance of mediocrity would be like saying RBA was.
- Krueger was a scout here AGES ago, so can't lump him into that category
- Bales was only here for 2 years and was part of the turn-around so can't lump him into that category
- Vellucci clearly can't be lumped into that category.

I'm not sweating losing Smith (clearly) and Bales, but Brindy relied heavily on Bales.

 

[NotOpie]

Since he’s walking away from a contract this smells a little, unless he’s locked into a long term contract that pays poo and after a year like he just had he has much improved value and merely wishes to capitalize.

If you guys are right about management wanting their own guy and this was a Peters “firing not firing” then it still smells a little. Couldn’t ask someone to do a better job....

But it's offseason. What fun would that be to just sit back and watch things play out?

Exactly this @Boom Boom Apathy . Otherwise I wouldn't be able to comment on Bleed's post and ream him for being such a negative nelly/conspiracy theory monger.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Evidently, Skinner had his supporters among the previous regime. I didn't know losing him was going to lead to a mass exodus of coaches, and definitely didn't see the goalie coach being part of it.

Obviously moving to the only team where it's guaranteed that Skinner won't light his goalies up.

 

[bleedgreen]

Exactly this @Boom Boom Apathy . Otherwise I wouldn't be able to comment on Bleed's post and ream him for being such a negative nelly/conspiracy theory monger.

Hey!

I prefer negative Nancy. Nelly was that bitch from Little House on the Prairie, and I wanted a house to fall on her.

And Bales probably would get more money in Buffalo! He just did a kick ass job on a team seemingly on the up and he just quit, Rita Skeeter would be all over this. The off season is all about the soap opera, and I love this shit.

 

[Drivebytrucker]

Mrazek kinda has his own style that's very unorthodox.

Word is that he absolutely trusts his own style and is not open to suggestions or changes


That's probably not what you wanna hear as a goalie coach

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I hope that Mrazek demands his own goalie coach, and it turns out to be an old Czech fortune teller woman with like three teeth.