Confirmed with Link: Pratt hired as an Assistant Coach

[henchman21]

http://avalanche.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=889481

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[lonelybadger]

That's a decent amount of assistant coaches. Does anyone know his primary responsibilities in lake Erie?

 

[Nzap]

So he was the assistant of the Monsters last season who won the AHL.

Behind the bench as the fourth guy or?

 

[henchman21]

That's a decent amount of assistant coaches. Does anyone know his primary responsibilities in lake Erie?

Coached the D and PK with Lake Erie... also did video work.

There were rumors Pratt might get the AHL head job, maybe he prefered this? Maybe this is just the way for the Avs to get him in the organization?

 

[The Merchant]

Awesome! I loved Guardians of the Galaxy

 

[madman]

Charlotte Grahame where you at

 

[Pokecheque]

Ah, good ol' Nolan is back in the fold, eh? Right on.

 

[Bonzai12]

Not excited. Never was a fan of his as a player, but oh well.

Considering the speed and quality of our D-men development, this means they should only have to hire about 16 more defensive coaches.

 

[UncleRisto]

Charlotte Grahame where you at

Me?

(I said that earlier, now I can't break character.)

 

[the_fan]

Further prove that this organization knows nothing about defense.

Nolan freakin Pratt? really?

 

[henchman21]

Pratt is a damn good coach... this is a great hire.

 

[The Abusement Park]

I know nothing about Pratt as a coach, but just because he wasn't a superstar player doesn't mean he won't be a good coach. I mean how may superstar players have turned out to be good coaches?

 

[Freudian]

Hope he's a good coach.

 

[the_fan]

I know nothing about Pratt as a coach, but just because he wasn't a superstar player doesn't mean he won't be a good coach. I mean how may superstar players have turned out to be good coaches?

It's doesn't have to be a super star player, but I see the same trend with this organization, hire within or Joe Sacco type then bring them to the big club.

When they decide that Roy just isn't working out, I see more Sacco type bad coach replacements like Pratt. I'm not saying for certain that I know Pratt is a bad coach but he doesn't seem like anything special. This organization needs real coaches who actually know what it takes to win and I don't think that's Pratt.

 

[chet1926]

It's funny to read the comments about people not liking this mainly because they remember him not being a decent player. Being an average player doesn't mean you are a bad coach.

I'm willing to give him a chance and I know nothing about his coaching resume.

 

[Avs_19]

Don't know anything about him but hopefully he helps. I don't have any confidence in Roy, Army, or Farrish.

 

[RockLobster]

It's doesn't have to be a super star player, but I see the same trend with this organization, hire within or Joe Sacco type then bring them to the big club.

When they decide that Roy just isn't working out, I see more Sacco type bad coach replacements like Pratt. I'm not saying for certain that I know Pratt is a bad coach but he doesn't seem like anything special. This organization needs real coaches who actually know what it takes to win and I don't think that's Pratt.

This (and your other post in this thread) are worthy.

Job well done.

 

[TheForsbergShow]

It's doesn't have to be a super star player, but I see the same trend with this organization, hire within or Joe Sacco type then bring them to the big club.

When they decide that Roy just isn't working out, I see more Sacco type bad coach replacements like Pratt. I'm not saying for certain that I know Pratt is a bad coach but he doesn't seem like anything special. This organization needs real coaches who actually know what it takes to win and I don't think that's Pratt.

He played a whopping 46 games with the avs 16 years ago and you consider that hiring within.

You know absolutely nothing of him as a coach yet you are claiming he isn't anything special and doesn't know how to win? Why? Is it because he wasn't a great nhl player?

 

[the_fan]

He played a whopping 46 games with the avs 16 years ago and you consider that hiring within.

You know absolutely nothing of him as a coach yet you are claiming he isn't anything special and doesn't know how to win? Why? Is it because he wasn't a great nhl player?

No, it's well known that great players don't make good coaches, Gretzky, Roy etc....No one really knows much about Pratt as a coach. Usually good coaches are recognized before they get jobs in the NHL. Like i said, i'm not saying Pratt is a bad or a good coach since i don't know, it just seems like another meh hire by this team

 

[UncleRisto]

So are they just going to roll with 3 on-ice assistants long term? What do you think will follow this move?

 

[tigervixxxen]

I don't know much about Pratt either but having just coached a championship team is a good place to start, no?

Does any NHL team have 3 assistant coaches? Or is this going to be a somebody is going to vanish from the website soon kind of thing? I think that will happen one way or another but the question is if this is going to be sooner than later.

 

[Bone Breaker]

wasn`t him being speculated as HC for the Rampage some time ago?

anyways, the only downside I see in this is that no one is getting the boot to open him place.

 

[tigervixxxen]

wasn`t him being speculated as HC for the Rampage some time ago?

anyways, the only downside I see in this is that no one is getting the boot to open him place.

Yes he was.

I like with him and Vielleux they seem to be younger guys going places, seem like smart hires.

 

[Bender]

This seems like a McFarlane move but still a guy that both Sakic and Roy would be familiar with.

I'm happy with this if only to say that they acknowledge that the coaching needs to change and have different ideas get brought in.

I definitely think that the "hey everyone, let's block all shots" scheme needs to go, I think Farrish is probably at worst a decent assistant coach.

I have zero confidence in Tim Army who ran that tired PP scheme all season last year. We might suck defensively and in other areas but we should have enough skill up front to have a top-10 PP in the league. Not frikkin' 19th.

I can only hope that this means that Army gets "Shermanized" with the coffee-boy treatment and released once his contract is up.

 

[Sea Eagles]

To be fair to any defensive coach in Colorado, you can't get Ferrari performance out of a beat up Volkswagon. Too be fair, given the cattle, we have probably achieved defensively what we should have.