Look at my 1st postRemember when everyone used to call him wreck it Ralph? Good times.
Don’t really want anything to do with him. That team collapsed terribly down the stretch.Look at my 1st post
Who was for a time the best dman we've had since CFP.His Oilers had freakin Ryan "Ow my feet!" Whitney as a dman.
That why his football club is about to be relegated?
Who was for a time the best dman we've had since CFP.
got to say this as well.Don't want him back, in any role.
wut?
He almost made the playoffs with our garbage roster the 1 year he was here.
https://www.tsn.ca/krueger-open-to-nhl-return-if-fit-is-right-1.1269887
Just saw this on TSN... would love for him to come back to Edmonton and coach this group. Always had a great attitude and appreciated by the players, just a travesty that he was let go for Eakins.
Thoughts?
That why his football club is about to be relegated?
He never had the luxury of a training camp to fully implement and integrate a system. His team played every one of their games against the toughest conference by far. They were a collection of some talented but green kids and washed up vets. Tough to expect 200 ft games from them literally overnight. Not sure where you get that he was such a terrible coach based on that short time span. He had a completely dysfunctional and poorly constructed roster and at the very least, got them a taste of being in a race and building some confidence.He was our head coach in the shortened season. I wouldn't put too much emphasis on the results we had that year. We had a good stretch of games to close out the season as well, IIRC.
He is a player's coach to the Nth degree. It could be argued that his coaching tactics that season threw a wrench into the development of our young talent at the time. He wasn't a guy who was teaching them the importance of the 200ft game, which is something that was sorely needed at the time, considering the roster we were icing.
Don’t recall ever hearing or seeing this.Yeah, he guaranteed him top pairing minutes so he could get all his bonuses.
Don’t recall ever hearing or seeing this.
He only faced the west which was the vastly superior conference at the time. That was the most wins we had vs the west in that rebuild. Like Dallas Eakins in his entire tenure of almost 1.5 seasons never won as many games vs the west as Krueger in that season despite having a way better roster. We had elite special teams and all of our young players were thriving under him. He’s a good coach. If he ever truly decides to walk away from football someone will 100% pick him up at some point.He didn't almost make the playoffs. In a 48 point season the Oilers missed the playoffs by 10 points and were the 7th worst team in the league. They were closer to last then they were to a playoff spot.
The Oilers were in 8th for like one day before collapsing in the final 1/4 of the shortened season.
Neither did every other head coach in the NHL that season. He was a guy who got outcoached game in, game out head to head. His deployments often lacked logic and his ability to matchup against opposition was nonexistent.He never had the luxury of a training camp to fully implement and integrate a system. His team played every one of their games against the toughest conference by far. They were a collection of some talented but green kids and washed up vets. Tough to expect 200 ft games from them literally overnight. Not sure where you get that he was such a terrible coach based on that short time span. He had a completely dysfunctional and poorly constructed roster and at the very least, got them a taste of being in a race and building some confidence.
He only faced the west which was the vastly superior conference at the time. That was the most wins we had vs the west in that rebuild. Like Dallas Eakins in his entire tenure of almost 1.5 seasons never won as many games vs the west as Krueger in that season despite having a way better roster. We had elite special teams and all of our young players were thriving under him. He’s a good coach. If he ever truly decides to walk away from football someone will 100% pick him up at some point.
Still upset I see, glad to see you only had an issue with what I said when countless other things have been posted here without requiring proof.Yea don't bother, I tried do get some follow up, but it's just an opinion, by no means a fact. Every time I asked where he heard this he dodged it so I just dropped it.
He should be VP of motivation.