TSN: Ralph Krueger Open to NHL Return
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OilerTyler
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"Only if the fit is right"
So not the Oilers
So not the Oilers
oobga
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A chance to right a wrong. Only the guy that fired him on skype is still here. It's so wonderful to carry around our useless baggage forever.
To be fair, if that "fit" means a competent, good team, then the chances that team is looking for a new HC is pretty low. McDavid and Draisaitl are the x-factors here
Frank the Tank
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He was right about his quote from 2017:
"It just feels like we’ve only just got started here [at Southampton] and especially with the management re-organization we just did, there is kind of like there’s something here where we are going to take it to another level."
That "another level" appears to be relegation from the EPL to Championship.
"It just feels like we’ve only just got started here [at Southampton] and especially with the management re-organization we just did, there is kind of like there’s something here where we are going to take it to another level."
That "another level" appears to be relegation from the EPL to Championship.
Del Preston
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Jet Walters
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I'd prefer to go back even further in time and bring back that guy who was fired via telegram by the Old Boy's Club.
oXo Cube
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He wasn't a good coach.
The idea that he was is revisionism built around his replacement being the worst coach to ever stand behind an NHL bench.
The idea that he was is revisionism built around his replacement being the worst coach to ever stand behind an NHL bench.
MessierII
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A guy who’s chairman of an EPL team. He already turned down coaching Crosby and the Pens a few years ago.
oXo Cube
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The big reason for this sudden about face is that his EPL team might not be an EPL team for a whole lot longer.
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Coached the World team to the finals. But okay, terrible coach.
Aerrol
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I wouldn't be in love with his return, but I wouldn't hate it. As is said above, I thought he did very well with Team Europe at the World Cup, and I think he was neither awful nor amazing as our coach. He coached both teams into a very defensively safe style that relied heavily on special teams to succeed. So kind of like Hitchcock except he's very positive and almost always seems to build good rapport with his players.
We could do worse than hire him (examples include: hiring Carlyle, keeping Hitchcock, hiring Boucher...), but I think we could also do better. I'd rather do a proper search for a young guy with interesting ideas and a good jr/AHL track record, but I'm also skeptical this organization won't just find Eakins 2.0.
We could do worse than hire him (examples include: hiring Carlyle, keeping Hitchcock, hiring Boucher...), but I think we could also do better. I'd rather do a proper search for a young guy with interesting ideas and a good jr/AHL track record, but I'm also skeptical this organization won't just find Eakins 2.0.
yukoner88
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Where did this bit about Ralph being a bad coach come from? A lot of young players improved under him. He knew where to put guys to give them a chance to succeed. He gave us a shot at the playoffs, which at the time was our first wiff at it in a few years.
Yes I understand the last 10 games or so the team slumped but that wasn't entirely his fault. I feel.management failed him cause it was no secret the team needed some help/reinforcements to stay in the playoff race that year and all they could come up with was a 4th rounder for Matheson.
Yes I understand the last 10 games or so the team slumped but that wasn't entirely his fault. I feel.management failed him cause it was no secret the team needed some help/reinforcements to stay in the playoff race that year and all they could come up with was a 4th rounder for Matheson.
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oobga
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Weird how people still crap on Krueger for that season. He was forced by management to play Schultz top pairing minutes because they promised him the best chance to get all his bonuses (TOI is one of the Schedule A triggers). So, in that last 1.5 months he had a top pairing D that completely quit on playing any defense because he was trying to get his Schedule B bonus, which he got, leading to the biggest player celebration on ice we saw until we won a round in the playoffs in 2017. If that wasn't enough of a handicap, his top C Nuge played with a bum shoulder all year, which got extra bad in the last month after a Sedin jumped on Nuge's back. His C's were getting injured all year. The D depth was garbage. He had to baby Yakupov and got 10 times more out of him than any other coach managed to. Our special teams were great with less than what McLellan failed miserably with.
I can't see how anyone could still deny that he didn't get the most he could out of that lineup. They had no business being anywhere close to a playoff spot that year. I know at the time we all thought Tambo and Lowe were building something good and we had high expectations, but geez, I think we should all know better than that by now.
The Yakupov part is the huge IMO. Playing a player to their strengths was Ralph's best attribute. I could easily see a guy like Puljujarvi turning around under a guy like Ralph.
I pretty sure over 75% of oiler fans on here have stockholm syndrome
CantHaveTkachev
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"Wreck-It" Ralph wants nothing to do with the Oilers...as long as MacT is still here
Katz should fire mctavish via Skype to make it right.
