It got enough love the first hundred times it was posted.
Lemaire's first 4 years as a head coach he made the Conference Finals twice, The playoffs all 4 times, and won a Cup. 17 years as a head coach he missed the playoffs 7 times. Once with a .622 Win Pct. taking over for a terrible coach and only twice has he ever coached a team with a sub .500 Win Pct.
I think it's safe to say that it's incredibly speculative and premature to even propose the possibility of Pete Deboer being the next Lemaire.
Adam Henrique could be the next Wayne Gretzky. Who knows right?
Pete also had Kulikov and Grabner. And probably a handful of other young players with potential that didn't thrive under a coach who has no grasp on development.
There really isn't any way you can even imply that Pete can be the next Lemaire just because they are system coaches. If you don't have a system at this level it's a red flag (cough J-Mac cough).
About the only thing they have in common is being NHL coaches with systems.
Kovalchuk-Zajac-Palmieri
Rolston-Elias-Zubrus
Zharkov-Arnott-Tedenby
Pelley-Mair-Clarkson
Tallinder-Fayne
Salmela-Greene
White-Volchenkov
That was what Lemaire was working with and got them on a 9-0-1 streak.
And with a few changes(Josefson in for Arnott) and line variations he coached that team to 29-17-3.
Pete can't get this team to win 3 in a row and our current team is way better than that.
It's crazy how Gelinas' pass drew the penalty, but he really needs to learn how to read plays. I honestly couldn't believe how out of position he was seconds before that. I think he even looked over at Seguin and still decided to leave him there alone in front of Cory. He's ****ing nuts.
"You've got more freedom to do what you want on the ice (under new coach Kevin Dineen)," defenseman Dmitry Kulikov told the SunSentinel. "You feel if you make a mistake you can make up for it on the next shift.
"With Pete, it's one mistake and you're like shaking for the rest of the game."
Forward Michal Repik said DeBoer was too tough on his players in Florida.
"Last year I came here from the farm team to make an impression," Repik said. "To go out there, you are afraid to play; that's not the right thing for us.
"Obviously you'll be tight anyway, but you want to be relaxed. I hoped if you made a bad play you don't get yelled at and the coach will help pick you up and give you confidence, too."
http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/2011/11/some_panthers_have_score_to_se.html
So Kulikov wasn't just fine under Pete.
"(Dineen) might be a little but more patient with the young guys and more calm, while Pete's more finery," Weiss said.
Dude it's not only about production it's also about development. They aren't allowed to learn from their mistakes because they get benched, you honestly can tell me you like how the Devils have handled Larsson, Gelinas, and Merrill?
Dude it's not only about production it's also about development. They aren't allowed to learn from their mistakes because they get benched, you honestly can tell me you like how the Devils have handled Larsson, Gelinas, and Merrill?
Kovalchuk-Zajac-Palmieri
Rolston-Elias-Zubrus
Zharkov-Arnott-Tedenby
Pelley-Mair-Clarkson
Tallinder-Fayne
Salmela-Greene
White-Volchenkov
That was what Lemaire was working with and got them on a 9-0-1 streak.
And with a few changes(Josefson in for Arnott) and line variations he coached that team to 29-17-3.
Pete can't get this team to win 3 in a row and our current team is way better than that.
With Lemaire I doubt you would see Loktionov and Josefson be healthy scratches.
No, we aren't the Jets, we aren't perennial losers.
With Lemaire I doubt you would see Loktionov and Josefson be healthy scratches.
“One of the first things I said to [GM] Lou [Lamoriello], I said you have good kids in the organization,” Lemaire said yesterday after an optional practice in Newark where eight skaters plus backup goalie Yann Danis showed. “Where would we be if it weren’t for the kids? In trouble. In deep trouble.”
“The two [young] defensemen, they play an aggressive game, which helps them big time,” Lemaire said. “They could be better with the puck, but their aggressiveness helps them be able to play.”
However, Lamoriello believes that youngsters Rod Pelley, Niclas Bergfors, Matt Halischuk and Ilkka Pikkarainen are ready for the NHL and he decided that Shanahan a expendable.
"Maybe Lou thought that they had a long chance to make the team," Lemaire said of the youngsters' chances at the start of training camp. "But these kids they've shown that they're ready to play."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=4522626
Devils coach Jacques Lemaire was asked this afternoon what kind of player rookie right wing Mattias Tedenby can develop into. “Gionta maybe,” Lemaire said, referring to former Devil and current Canadiens captain Brian Gionta. “(The way he plays) with the puck. Maybe he doesn’t shoot as well as Gionta, but to control, to skate, the quickness, make plays, toughness. Because for his size, he plays an aggressive game. He goes in traffic.” - See more at: http://blogs.northjersey.com/blogs/...player_like_brian_giont/#sthash.lrLXEOFa.dpuf
"He's capable of playing at a high level and against the good players," Lemaire said of Bergfors. "But when he's going to play against Crosby, as an example, and he's not aware of the defensive game, I don’t like it. Everyone has to be aware of the defensive game. Everyone. Zach’s doing it, Travis is doing it all the time, and it doesn’t stop them from getting any points.
"They’re top players, so they play against each other and we’ll see at the end who finishes on top. I know Crosby doesn’t have all the guys he usually plays with and Zach does, but let’s take the game tonight as an example, I thought Zach did well.”
http://www.examiner.com/article/dev...okie-bergfors-despite-three-point-performance
"A kid like this needs to get some chances," Lemaire said. "You know, go in a game and get three, four chances. Then go to the next game and get two, three chances. Then go and keep getting these chances. And then goals will come."
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=555473
Our team isn't better than that. See the name Kovalchuk? That makes the entire difference.
If we still had Kovy we'd be battling the Pens for the top spot in the division. Imagine Kovy and Jagr on the same line?
Seconded.
Lemaire was tough on youngsters but they learned and developed.
2009
http://nypost.com/2009/12/11/devils-growing-with-youngsters/
Pete only talks that way about Gionta. And Harrold. Lemaire was tough on his kids but they loved him and they learned. Lemaire "gets it." The kids need to play to develop.
Pete doesn't.
Imagine what Henrique could have been without Pete!