Mike Yeo
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Probably won't until the playoffs are over
3 years I think. They will want to give themselves wiggle room in case he craps the bed and this team sinks into a hole. Yeo has been evolving but he isn't Babcock.
coach contracts are NBD for teams. wiggle room or whatever is nice but it's not like they really care about just firing them and picking someone else during the middle of a contract. only consideration is money, not cap or penalties so it's pretty easy.
Engebretson
Thank you, sweet rabbit
This. Coaches are very easily fired before their contracts expire. Off the top of my head, I know Hitchcock was fired by Columbus before he had completed the second year of his three year contract.
Ya but then you have teams like Vancouver who sign Torts for a long term deal and after one get to pay him 7 figures for another 4-5 years IIRC. Does it count against cap? Of course not. But sometimes folks forget that even with the cap at $68M, they still have to pay for a whole lot of other people behind the scenes and on the bench to make that $68M product effective. Paying someone that kind of money isn't something an owner, let alone a GM, want to see on the statement report for the month/year.
Engebretson
Thank you, sweet rabbit
Russo said they're basically looking at a 3 year deal at around $1 mil per year. I realize that firing a coach mid-contract is not desirable from a financial books' perspective and is not something you can just shrug off, but it's happened several times before and I would imagine that Wild management factors that potential payout into their negotiations with Yeo or any coach for that matter.
I'm not sure what Vancouver was thinking with that contract with Torts, but I guess you can add that to the ever-growing list of why their management is going through an overhaul right now.
And 3 years is perfect, hell I would even give him more than a $1M at this junction. It appeared during the playoffs he finally figured out he had last change at home
Engebretson
Thank you, sweet rabbit
And 3 years is perfect, hell I would even give him more than a $1M at this junction. It appeared during the playoffs he finally figured out he had last change at home
I think Russo also said that his contract would include bonuses too, so $1 mil per year might be the bare minimum he receives. Yeo was making something like $600,000 per year on his first contract and was looking to double it after making the playoffs two years in a row.
Definitely agreed on your point about Yeo looking like he's finally taking advantage of the last change at home. I think he's always used it to his advantage at home (we were something like 26-10-5 at home this year), but it's almost like he took it to another level during the playoffs. I really want us to be a tough team to play at home and Yeo looks like he's heading in the right direction to do just that.
Jarick
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And 3 years is perfect, hell I would even give him more than a $1M at this junction. It appeared during the playoffs he finally figured out he had last change at home
Agreed. His coaching went up considerably during the playoffs and I'd venture as far as saying he out coached both Roy and coach Q during our two series. If he can build off that success and grow even more over the summer and extend that to regular season success and playoff success it will show he's finally reaching genuine maturity as an NHL head coach.
That's very true, and that's why I'm glad it's only going to be three years. Means if for some reason these playoffs turn out to be a huge outlier, we can still walk away from him if needed.
That said I seriously hope GMCF imposes the requirement that he brings in a proper special teams coach. If Bruno was supposed to be the one responsible for the powerplay then either he screwed up or Yeo stepped on his toes a little too much. Either way, we need a powerplay specialist.
I'd also like to see Yeo take a page out of Roy's book and practice extensively with a 6 on 5 setup. Roy really took the Avalanche to a completely other level near the end of the game by coaching the hell out of that, and a lot of their success, especially their wins in games 1 and 5, can be attributed to that. We need to practice both sides of 6 on 5 because we are terrible both with our goalie pulled and the opponents goalie pulled. Yeo also needs to learn when it's appropriate to pull the goalie.
All in all I can see a lot of growth from Yeo as a coach this year and I am looking forward to seeing what this team looks like next year when the regular season starts.
Jarick
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I'd have to think Fletcher isn't dumb enough to just assume everything's fine because they made the playoffs. Both from a team personnel and front office standpoint. Anyone who is in that position of power needs to look at things critically and comprehensively. I do like that GMCF is not a former player who's getting a job, but a real student of the profession with lots of years of apprenticeship.
3 years is exactly what I expected. Need to find a PP coach though for sure. What the team has done on the PP since Yeo has arrived has been next to horrendous. If this team really means to make a run, that is one of the easiest ways to get a jump in offensive production.... a successful PP.
PP success helped carry the 2003 team offensively most nights.
PP success helped carry the 2003 team offensively most nights.
Jarick
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What is Brett Hull up to these days
If his Twitter was any indication, a lot of drinking and smoking pot.
Russo talks about mike yeo here http://www.kfan.com/media/podcast-p...FAN_PADubay/529-hr2-russoessentials-24831144/
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