Confirmed with Link: Pascal Vincent Named Head Coach

[CBJWerenski8]

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[HockeyVirus]

What should my opinion be on Vincent being named head coach?

 

[Fred Glover]

They better not say that this was the plan all along to hire Vincent

 

[Fred Glover]

What should my opinion be on Vincent being named head coach?

Whatever you want it to be

 

[CBJWerenski8]

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

Translation:

This team passed over me twice as head coach but I'm still here and going to give it my best shot even though the front office is run a like a monkey humping a football.

 

[EDM]

I was dead set against Pascal during the last interview process and remain unimpressed. I don’t see him as having the gravitas to hold the team together. And it now appears that some players have an open door to lodge complaints against their coach

 

[BerthMania]

To the Jackets fans, what do you think of Pascal Vincent as head coach?

Personally I'm glad for him, I'm also québécois and I remember when he did some tv, he was among the most well articulate hockey experts I've heard on french tv!

I was dead set against Pascal during the last interview process and remain unimpressed. I don’t see him as having the gravitas to hold the team together. And it now appears that some players have an open door to lodge complaints against their coach

What do you man by gravitas? haha I don't know what that is

 

[GoJackets1]

To the Jackets fans, what do you think of Pascal Vincent as head coach?

Personally I'm glad for him, I'm also québécois and I remember when he did some tv, he was among the most well articulate hockey experts I've heard on french tv!


What do you man by gravitas? haha I don't know what that is

To reply to what that other poster said, I actually disagree. I think from watching the team in game, it always seemed like they respected what Vincent had to say in regards to strategy. I think the players like and respect him.

 

[HockeyVirus]

One thing I worry about is I think the Jackets benefit from an outside voice. I generally don't love assistants being promoted as it feels like real change isn't possible.

On the other hand, sometimes someone who has been in the room and knows what they can do to fix issues can immediately give more results vs someone who has to learn it themselves.

 

[stevo61]

Not the way I wanted it to happen but congrats to Vincent. Bit of a sideshow to work through here at the start but as soon as the hockey starts it just becomes hockey again.

 

[Viqsi]

One thing I worry about is I think the Jackets benefit from an outside voice. I generally don't love assistants being promoted as it feels like real change isn't possible.

On the other hand, sometimes someone who has been in the room and knows what they can do to fix issues can immediately give more results vs someone who has to learn it themselves.

I think pressure to Find An Outside Guy after Larsen failed is what got us Babcock.

 

[stevo61]

One thing I worry about is I think the Jackets benefit from an outside voice. I generally don't love assistants being promoted as it feels like real change isn't possible.

On the other hand, sometimes someone who has been in the room and knows what they can do to fix issues can immediately give more results vs someone who has to learn it themselves.

Not really the same when the guy fired hasnt even really coached the team

 

[MoeBartoli]

To the Jackets fans, what do you think of Pascal Vincent as head coach?

Personally I'm glad for him, I'm also québécois and I remember when he did some tv, he was among the most well articulate hockey experts I've heard on french tv!


What do you man by gravitas? haha I don't know what that is

He seems like a good guy who has the potential to be a good head coach. But for him his first job is taking the keys to be head coach of a team:

- that had one of the worst records in the league last year;
- stepping into a locker room that is potentially has a veteran/younger player fraction based on how events unfolded;
- basically zero time to prep for this before training camp opens;
- short an assistant coach; and
- has as his upper management team so confident in you they passed you over twice prevously

I wish him well and want him to succeed but he couldn’t take a tougher first gig than this.

 

[Indy18]

The old coach is gone all hail the new coach.

Should had been the HC from day 1 but there was alot of resistance to an internal hire again which is why they wanted to find a "Torts" style coach as Larson was too friendly. We played very well under Vincent when he was coaching and he was the one who pushed the Laine 1C experiment...and he probably costed us that #1 draft slot anyway due to him (doesn't matter in the end in my headcannon we chose second and picked Fantilli and anyone who tells me otherwise I'll just say fake news...I reject reality and that's how it happened for me).

 

[majormajor]

I'm actually super excited for Vincent and I think he'll do well. He seems to be really likable and easy to get along with, I think the players are going to like playing for him, and he's a tactician and has surely absorbed some new tricks from working with Babs.

He had a long tenure at different levels in Winnipeg and I don't just see him as an internal fill in.

Edit: forgot to mention earlier but the Laine at center experiment was really telling. Vincent had a very brief opportunity to fill in as head coach, two games where Lars was sick, and he went completely in a new direction. That's really rare, I don't see him as following Lars at all, completely different mind.

 

[CBJx614]

Happy for Vincent. He's getting a much better team in a much better position than what Larsen was left with. Hopefully Vincent can thread the need of not being a hard ass twat like Torts could be, but not a complete pushover like Larsen while also understanding how to respect peoples privacy unlike Babs.

 

[Fred Glover]

I am ready to move on
Let’s play some hockey
Drop the puck
GoJackets

 

[VT]

After Larsen was fired, I really wanted Vincent to be the coach. I hope he won't just be an interim.

 

[stevo61]

After Larsen was fired, I really wanted Vincent to be the coach. I hope he won't just be an interim.

Hes got 2 years as head coach atleast

 

[puckgoalnet]

I was dead set against Pascal during the last interview process and remain unimpressed. I don’t see him as having the gravitas to hold the team together. And it now appears that some players have an open door to lodge complaints against their coach

Completely agree. 1st I was surprised he was still on the staff, now I'm surprised he's the coach.

Ran one of the worst PP's in the league, gets rewarded by being promoted to head coach.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

No offense to Vincent, but management let Larsen get walked all over by these players, and Vincent was apart of the staff that got walked over. I know things change when you’re the head guy, but clearly management thought a stricter message was needed.

I’m happy for Vincent. he seems like a good man. I just don’t see this being much better than Larsen even if he’s a “tactician”.

 

[VT]

Completely agree. 1st I was surprised he was still on the staff, now I'm surprised he's the coach.

Ran one of the worst PP's in the league, gets rewarded by being promoted to head coach.

You forgot to look at lines and also the fact that our PP was one of the best after the all star game.

No offense to Vincent, but management let Larsen get walked all over by these players, and Vincent was apart of the staff that got walked over. I know things change when you’re the head guy, but clearly management thought a stricter message was needed.

I’m happy for Vincent. he seems like a good man. I just don’t see this being much better than Larsen even if he’s a “tactician”.

We don't know how Vincent may have influenced Larsen's decisions.

 

[puckgoalnet]

You forgot to look at lines and also the fact that our PP was one of the best after the all star game.


We don't know how Vincent may have influenced Larsen's decisions.

24th in 2021-2022, 26th in 2022-2023 ... but yeah, in March he did well.

 

[Youngguns80]

You forgot to look at lines and also the fact that our PP was one of the best after the all star game.


We don't know how Vincent may have influenced Larsen's decisions.

That is a bunch of crap. As a leader, coach, manager, etc. If you don’t agree it is your job to convince of another way. Just following isn’t a leader. Vincent will get walked on by players and much more of the same will happen. Larsen 2.0

BTW - when he goes down in flames. I don’t want to hear he didn’t have the right players these were set up for Babcock’s systems.

I would have been more impressed if they promoted Trent V from Cleveland than Pascal Vincent as our coach.