The worst ever coach for your team?

[Murzu]

You get two choices: Barry Trotz or Peter Laviolette. Haven't had another coach haha.

Yeah, you're more lucky than you know. Appreciate and enjoy it while that streak is going.

 

[FinnLightning26]

Easily Barry Melrose

 

[Langdon Alger]

Sens - Dave Allison

I tried my best.

 

[SotasicA]

Alpo!

This.

 

[Cherpak]

Pierre Creamer. Thank god it only lasted a season.

 

[Zen Arcade]

Pierre Creamer. Thank god it only lasted a season.

He once told the team to "go make bicycle" after a bad practice, since his English was apparently limited. The team responded by drawing a bicycle on the chalkboard in the locker room and going home.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Pierre Creamer. Thank god it only lasted a season.

Creamer?

 

[Bleedred]

He was a solid assistant coach here for years as well. It's just unfortunate how terrible he was a head coach. It sure didn't help that he had played with the malcontent captain either, along with some of the other players on the team...

I didn't think he was a solid assistant coach at all. In fact, the power play went ker plunk the year he took over and was usually below average to bad every year he was there, after being like second the year before he was hired as an assistant and then top 10 in the first year he wasn't an assistant. The year he was the head coach in the AHL, the year before the horrific head coaching stint. Even the inflated stats post lockout year when Brian Gionta scored 24 PP goals alone, we were still in the bottom half of the league on the PP, if I recall correctly.

I was about to say that he was never a teammate of Langenbrunner's, but then I remembered that he was actually was teammate's with Langenbrunner for a brief time in Dallas in the final 2 years of his career.

In 15 years of covering the NHL, we had never seen a coach so universally disrespected and disliked within his own organization.

McGuire fancied himself two parts Scotty Bowman and one part Bob Johnson. It turned out to be a superhuman leap of faith on his part.

http://articles.courant.com/1994-05...mcguire-whalers-general-manager-paul-holmgren

I always think back to Pierre's joke of a head coaching stint, every time I have to suffer through his BRUTAL commentary and hyping of every head coach and horrible players (like Dan Girardi tonight) and any coach. I've heard him constantly talk up how great Jeff Blashill and AV are, during broadcasts where he's calling the Red Wings or the Rangers. And he'll point out the smallest most ridiculous freak incidents and chalk to them up to ''See that, Eddie and Doc? That's coaching right there''.

Big surprise that the worst head coach in the history of hockey thinks other bad head coaches (and bad players) are good.

 

[Devils090]

Johnny Mac, what a disaster

 

[Damien]

Greg *** Gilbert

 

[SnoopDogg]

Can't decide between Bylsma and Nolan

 

[TaLoN]

Oh this one is easy.

Todd Richards is easily the worst coach in Wild history!

Horrible at in game adjustments, I think he really couldn't analyze what wad happening in front of his own eyes.

His favorite go to comment when asked why or how something was happening with the team... "I don't know, I'll have to go back and watch the video"

Couldn't give any in depth analysis on anything until days later after watching and rewatching the video before he could answer any real questions.

 

[OilerPensfan97]

Dallas Eakins, Mike Johnston

 

[Bending and Tending]

I want to say Mike Johnston (Penguins), but he wasn't exactly put into a situation to succeed, in my opinion.

The Penguins needed a coach to kick them in the ass, but they hired another 'nice guy' coach.

 

[District 5]

Whalers:

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[Montgomery81]

Marc Crawford is One-A to Glenn Gulutzan's One-B in Dallas.

 

[NyQuil]

Sens - Dave Allison

I was going to mention him, but his tenure was so short.

The coach I disliked the most was Craig Hartsburg.

His style of game was to dump it out of the defensive zone and then change lines.

We'd go entire games without any momentum whatsoever.

 

[BLNY]

Mario Tremblay.

 

[Satoru Gojo]

Craig Hartsburg or Dave Cameron

 

[Bizz]

Al Sims knew he wasn't gonna be around long so he never gave a ****.

 

[TheNewEra]

for the sens its dave cameron, hartsburgh was bad too but cameron was the moron that put Boro as a LW and our skilled forwards on our 4th line, the boro thing alone was idiotic

 

[tony d]

Dave Allison for Ottawa. 2 wins in 25 games was pretty bad even for the pre 1996-1997 team. Oh well it led to get Jacques Martin who might be the best coach in team history.

 

[Coors9]

Bruins....... Lewis.

 

[TNT87]

He once told the team to "go make bicycle" after a bad practice, since his English was apparently limited. The team responded by drawing a bicycle on the chalkboard in the locker room and going home.

He also didn't realize that the team needed to win their last regular season game to keep their playoff hopes alive.

He was my first choice with Edzo and Johnston up there as well.

 

[SI90]

Mad mike Milbury. Others may have less wins in shorter stints but Milbury was horrible at everything