Confirmed with Link: Oates named head coach

[Hivemind]

Oates followed Hunter as captain and now follows Hunter as coach.

 

[Calicaps]

Personally, when I need a good judge of character in the hockey world, the first name I dial is Rick Tochett.

 

[Calicaps]

Oates followed Hunter as captain and now follows Hunter as coach.

destiny!

 

[Atlas]

He is intense. I remember our lady byng candidate getting downright nasty when the playoffs started. Pissed we presumably low balled him - he said F you. I think its good for a coach to some fire in reserve.

I loved hearing Tocchet saying that he never stated the obvious. Hockey is such a simple sport, I think a coach risks losing the room stating the obvious, or with other dumb statements.

Werk harder! Just out werk em!

Totally agree as always! The Caps haven't been a team that made playoff adjustments since, what...the late 90's? And that was Oates and Juneau (another smart, smart person).

I'm intrigued.

I still have my convictions about Ted and George but I'll give it the season before I go Mt. Vesuvius.

 

[John Price]

Good luck to him.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Oates followed Hunter as captain and now follows Hunter as coach.

Let's hope he doesn't follow the one and done thing...

 

[Bananas]

More like good luck to us

 

[RandyHolt]

Personally, when I need a good judge of character in the hockey world, the first name I dial is Rick Tochett.

Oh I know, but hey who hasn't wanted to drop a dime on a game? But the allegations of ties to bigger fish didn't stick. Hanging with Mrs G, you almost can't make this stuff up. What a character !

But I suspect he and McPhee are buddies. Or at minimum, that McPhee respects his opinions. Heck, he hired his boy.

 

[Foy]

F5 my memory, why don't we like Oates, I cant remember. Thanks

When he was first acquired, he and Tocchet refused to report at first, and we missed the playoffs for the first time in 15 years.

Then there was him running Trevor Linden out of town.

There was the whole not paying attention to/missing/rumored sleeping during team meetings that resulted in him getting stripped of the Captaincy. In my mind his sons were less forgivable than Jagr's.

 

[Capitlols]

The OV quotes are intriguing.

 

[mrwarden]

The last center and former captain who was on the 98 team we named head coach worked out so well.

 

[IafrateOvie34]

Not surprised at all. Hopefully he can teach these guys faceoffs and get the PP going again.

Go Caps!

 

[Foy]

Oh I know, but hey who hasn't wanted to drop a dime on a game? But the allegations of ties to bigger fish didn't stick. Hanging with Mrs G, you almost can't make this stuff up. What a character !

But I suspect he and McPhee are buddies. Or at minimum, that McPhee respects his opinions. Heck, he hired his boy.

My hatred if Tocchet has to do with him getting traded to a team, refusing to go to a team, collecting a paycheck (eventually), and after the season saying he was glad the team didn't make the playoffs, and he hoped they never made the playoffs again. That's a real character reference

 

[Foy]

The last center and former captain who was on the 98 team we named head coach worked out so well.

Precisely.

 

[discobob]

No. If any player influence was a major factor in Oates' hiring, it was his influence on Kovalchuk.

Seems like this would be a huge factor. Caps need OV to be more like OV in order to succeed, and a coach that type of experience would carry alot of weight with the decision makers...

 

[tycoonheart]

The last center and former captain who was on the 98 team we named head coach worked out so well.

Like that has anything to do with how Oates will turn out.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

When he was first acquired, he and Tocchet refused to report at first, and we missed the playoffs for the first time in 15 years.

Then there was him running Trevor Linden out of town.

There was the whole not paying attention to/missing/rumored sleeping during team meetings that resulted in him getting stripped of the Captaincy. In my mind his sons were less forgivable than Jagr's.

I'm with you on the F Tocchet bandwagon.

 

[IkeaMonkey*]

My hatred if Tocchet has to do with him getting traded to a team, refusing to go to a team, collecting a paycheck (eventually), and after the season saying he was glad the team didn't make the playoffs, and he hoped they never made the playoffs again. That's a real character reference

I'm sure that was all some big misunderstanding.

 

[mrwarden]

Like that has anything to do with how Oates will turn out.

If your criteria for hiring a coach are that he be recycled, and Oates wasn't our first choice amongst them, yes, it does have something to do with it.

Can't wait for the Andrei Nikolishin era.

 

[IafrateOvie34]

I'm interested to see how Oates works with Johansson.

 

[marcel snapshot]

The OV quotes are intriguing.

What's OV saying?

 

[NobodyBeatsTheWiz]

If your criteria for hiring a coach are that he be recycled, and Oates wasn't our first choice amongst them, yes, it does have something to do with it.

Can't wait for the Andrei Nikolishin era.

Any sourcing for the requirement that the coach has to be recycled?

 

[tycoonheart]

What's OV saying?

@ovi8 hahaha oatsey new coach hahaha

 

[sunnydaycrash]

What's OV saying?

Apparently he called up Oates and told him he'd heard good things and hoped they would work well together.

Hey I wasn't jumping for joy when I heard it was Oates, but when Parise, Zubrus and Henrique seem sincerely upset he's leaving and are raining praise on him, then Lou and Cam Neely come out and do the same......it's hard to be too upset at him being hired.

 

[stanleycaps18]

So now he is a Hall of Fame coach?