Recycling the same coaches

[These Are The Days]

It's really not that bad. In the NFL the difference is in lack of quality and yet few retreads. You'll get a job if you even worked with Sean McVay once

 

[Tob]

If you're a GM, you only get to make 1-2 coaching changes. With a coach that's been around, you know their character and personality will be up to standard, you know their on ice product will be up to standard, and you know they have the experience to handle a room and everything that goes into being a HC in this league.

Investing in a college coach, overseas coach, minors HC or NHL assistant coach is a big risk to take for a GM. You need to check a lot of boxes to be a coach at the NHL level and more often than not, a GM just doesn't need to take that chance and invest into a coach who will need time to figure things out.

Unless you know someone very well and personally and know they're the right man for the job (Keefe/Dubas), you don't take that risk as a GM when there are tons of guys with experience that can do the job. It's not a recycling of old coaches, it's the hostile conditions for a team and its GM to bring in a green coach and invest in him while trying to be competitive. You don't have the leeway to get someone up to speed unless you're in a full rebuild.

Even Bednar shit the bed in that record low season for the Avs. Rangers hired Quinn because there's no pressure and Quinn has time and room to grow. Montreal took a large leap for MSL even though he has nearly no pro coaching experience because they're rebuilding. Same with Luke Richardson.

If you're the Flyers trying to compete, Jets trying to compete (I haven't heard of any tear downs), or the Knights trying to compete, or the Stars trying to compete, or the Bruins trying to compete, you go with guys that have done it before. Red Wings and Hawks are the only teams that can take that chance. It's pretty much dependent on rebuild/compete status. OTT took a chance on DJ Smith when they started rebuilding, not sure how that's going but he was green too. Look at the Sabres trying to compete in the last 5-8 years by throwing the greenest GMs and coaches into the fire, absolute disaster. The Canucks tried to compete by throwing in their budget coaches in Desjardin and Green in there and that didn't work out so well. 1 month of Boudreau and they were magically fixed.

One bad coaching hire and it might end your run as a GM too.

 

[MikeyMike01]

NFL is the worst out of the major sports
1: perform well as an assistant
2: get head coaching job
3: perform like garbage in role and get fired
4: get assistant coach job

And repeat cycle

Perfect example of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle