Deboer could be a good fit. Very good coach, despite what some think here. His puck possession system should work, in theory, with the Sharks roster.
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Deboer could be a good fit. Very good coach, despite what some think here. His puck possession system should work, in theory, with the Sharks roster.
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Nope, still embarassed
As one of the founding members of the Can Pete DeBoer movement, I'm going to be closely following the Sharks board and some of their games next year. It should provide some good laughs
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We just have some very bitter people toward Deboer. He will do fine in SJ and the team will do well.
He was too well respected around the league not to get another job. He is thought very highly about doesnt matter what a bunch of people on a message board think. Ill take the words from the pros over board members every day of the week.
He was too well respected around the league not to get another job. He is thought very highly about doesnt matter what a bunch of people on a message board think. Ill take the words from the pros over board members every day of the week.
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I know. A lot of them say "that group wasn't talented enough" though. That's what they use as their argument for Deboer.
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Pete is an excellent hockey mind...I'm not sure how times people needed to hear Top Brass around the league say the same thing to at least consider it to be true.
It'll be very interesting to see what Pete gets out of Thornton, Marleau, Pavelski and Couture next season.
It'll be very interesting to see what Pete gets out of Thornton, Marleau, Pavelski and Couture next season.
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he also was very dangerously close to losing in the 1st round to one of the worst playoff teams in recent memory.
we made the Finals in 2012 in spite of him.
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Simply not true. The combination of his system and our players got us there. We perfectly matched up against the Flyers and had a favourable series against the Rags.
We got to the finals in spite of our penalty kill, and that's not on Deboer.
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This is just not true and where the anti-Pete argument goes off the rails.
As usual both extremes are off on this one - but at least now the argument will finally be settled once and for all, unless the Sharks decide to blow it up and completely rebuild tomorrow.
My only problem with the Pete defenders is not so much disagreeing with what Larry says (I don't), but the media at large and some fans give this guy more excuses than any other coach I've ever seen. Lots of coaches get fired because of bad teams. That's why I'm glad he went to the Sharks, now there aren't any more excuses...he's with a good team, let's see him get them over the hump if he's an elite coach. Right now I consider him an average coach with pluses and minuses that gets treated like a good coach without portfolio by many, and gets villified like a bad coach by others here when he's not. I'm not sure he's really any better than the guy he replaced though, maybe the whole different voice thing works for them.
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his system (sitting back with the lead) and stubbornness almost cost us the first round series against Florida.
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Brodeur in the first six games and the suddenly horrific PK almost cost us the first round series against Florida. But this isn't the time or thread for that argument. And Pete arguably outcoached two Cup winning coaches in the next two rounds.
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This has been the worst month I've had in 7 years easily. And this month feels like it's never gonna end.
I wish I could go to sleep until June 1st.
With the ****** luck I've been having, the Rangers WILL be beating Tampa and probably even winning the cup. The only good thing is the SCF doesn't start until June, maybe my luck will have changed with the new month.
At least I'm skinny and have my health. I'll live to be old and miserable. Miserable enough to have to watch another team I like, be coached by Pete DeBoer.
This all but confirmed hiring is pretty much par for the course for the month I'm having. It sums up this month quite well.
I wish I could go to sleep until June 1st.
With the ****** luck I've been having, the Rangers WILL be beating Tampa and probably even winning the cup. The only good thing is the SCF doesn't start until June, maybe my luck will have changed with the new month.
At least I'm skinny and have my health. I'll live to be old and miserable. Miserable enough to have to watch another team I like, be coached by Pete DeBoer.
This all but confirmed hiring is pretty much par for the course for the month I'm having. It sums up this month quite well.
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This has been the worst month I've had in 7 years easily. And this month feels like it's never gonna end.
I wish I could go to sleep until June 1st.
With the ****** luck I've been having, the Rangers WILL be beating Tampa and probably even winning the cup. The only good thing is the SCF doesn't start until June, maybe my luck will have changed with the new month.
At least I'm skinny and have my health. I'll live to be old and miserable. Miserable enough to have to watch another team I like, be coached by Pete DeBoer.
This all but confirmed hiring is pretty much par for the course for the month I'm having. It sums up this month quite well.
this prob belongs in the OT thread, but dang man, other than hockey related things and your "pets heads falling off", what's wrong (not meaning to be nosey, but the helpful in me is coming out)
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Haha it's nothing too bad. To sum it all up very shortly, I started talking to a girl in late April that I've been interested in for quite some time. I was really stressed out and upset over the whole situation. She's quite a bit younger than me and it also appears she has quite the ego and plays more games than almost any girl that's 10 years younger than she is. She then told me she was pregnant (not from me because we were never together like that) and I'm skeptical if it was BS or not. It was hard to let her go because I had been interested for so long.
I'm going over to a friend's on Friday night to hang out. I'm kind of interested in her, but I see bad things happening because this godforsaken piece of **** calendar is still in May.
I also always get mildly depressed during the Devils offseason. These things are very easy to handle during hockey season. or Devils season in particular.
Nothing seems to have went right for me this month at all. I think June will be much better.
And then the Mets demise started this month too, not that I follow them much anymore. I think my ****** month has been a curse on them, though they always implode anyway lol.
I'm feeling much better the last 5 days or so. Then this DeBoer hiring to my second favorite team and the Rangers winning BS. That's just the kind of month it's been, I'll be happy when it's all over.
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Things weren't working out and I'm glad he's gone, but let's be fair. You're talking about what almost happened. I'm talking about what actually happened.
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Deboer's coaching in the Philly series and Ranger series was outstanding in 2012. His line combos all seemed to work perfectly and made Torts look like a fool... I remember an article from one of the major NY papers about how badly the Rangers were being out-coached, he also did a masterful job with matchup and negating Philly's forecheck in that series.
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I'm not discounting anything DeBoer did in the 2012 playoffs.
But I do think that it might be a one trick pony situation. Think of the Flyers craptastic goaltending duo in the 2010 playoffs.
Leighton and Boucher were good that year. But before that, they were pretty much bums (except for Boucher's run as a rookie 10 years earlier). And after that, they never did anything again either.
Unless you count being one of the best regular season goaltenders in the KHL.
But I do think that it might be a one trick pony situation. Think of the Flyers craptastic goaltending duo in the 2010 playoffs.
Leighton and Boucher were good that year. But before that, they were pretty much bums (except for Boucher's run as a rookie 10 years earlier). And after that, they never did anything again either.
Unless you count being one of the best regular season goaltenders in the KHL.
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I fully believed he would land a job this offseason. You could argue he landed the best "NOW" job that was out there. SJ is easily ready to compete for the playoffs right away.
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The two things that really annoyed me with Deboer was the handling of Larsson and the overplaying of Gionta. I think I'm preaching to the choir with that.
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