News Article: Troy Mann relieved of duties.

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Senators announce changes to the Belleville Senators coaching staff | Ottawa Senators

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators announced today that they have made changes to the coaching staff of their American Hockey League affiliate, the Belleville Senators. Following Thursday's game, Troy Mann was relieved of his duties as the team's head coach. Assistant coach David Bell will take over...

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[DaveMatthew]

Well that’s out of left field.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Didn’t they just win tonight??

And had an interview on wallys podcast ?

And he’s our AGMs brother

 

[Hale The Villain]

Hopefully Trent is next

 

[Senscore]

Late night on a Thursday.

That's . . . odd.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

Late night on a Thursday.

That's . . . odd.

Sounds like it is Wally’s fault.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Bowness mentions cohesion of play between NHL and AhL? Does he believe that DJ will be sticking around?

 

[Sun God Nika]

Ya this is shocking. There must have been a really nasty argument to have a firing this late at night.

Sucks to lose Mann a genuine asset for this team and has done more for us development wise than a lot of AHL coaches before him. His bro will likely be following his footsteps.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

 

[Burrowsaurus]

This team just can’t go two weeks without doing something stupid

 

[Senscore]

This team just can’t go two weeks without doing something stupid

I'm looking forward to the sports radio discussion for the next week or so about whether the Mann brothers are actually good.

 

[PatrickEaves]

Wrong head coach.

 

[Philadelphia Collins]

Hey Trent we’re firing your brother

 

[Korpse]

I'm looking forward to the sports radio discussion for the next week or so about whether the Mann brothers are actually good.

Not that Troy Mann is a bad coach or anything, I think he did a lot of good for the players in Belleville and even the players who are now in the NHL but he was wildly overrated by the fan base. Have never saw him as an option for the NHL team, like many did. Wish him the best, loved how open and honest he was with his media availabilities. I just don't see this as big of a loss as most will.

 

[NyQuil]

The timing. The lack of any real foreshadowing.

Awkward.

 

[Emerica]

Bowness mentions cohesion of play between NHL and AhL? Does he believe that DJ will be sticking around?

He didn’t have them practice enough dump and chase

Also, how tf did he get fired before DJ

 

[Samboni]

The timing of this is weird. Something must have happened behind the scenes e.g. Troy didn’t want to follow direction from the big club.

 

[The Devilish Buffoon]

Definitely weird.

 

[Yak]

I liked Troy!

Their are things he did good and bad.

Lack of development of the defense has been poor and potentially the B prospects.

I thought he would be a great assistant coach in Ottawa but hockey is results oriented business and I guess they did not like his results.

Freaking weird timing but I am sure this is just first of many surprises coming this year with coaches, management and ownership.

 

[starling]

Who's going to teach them how to play hemmed in their own zone every night now?

 

[HSF]

So we can fire a coach ?

 

[Ouroboros]

This will be a shock to the whole 'Troy Mann is the next Ottawa coach' crew. He's long been overrated by people who clearly don't watch any Belleville Senators hockey.

Belleville hasn't exactly been a developmental powerhouse for us recently. Other than Batherson, Norris and I guess Nick Paul not a ton of quality has actually come up through the system, and personally I think a guy like Norris probably develops no matter who his coach was. On the flip side, how many players have stagnated down there? Plenty. That's not all on the coaching staff, but it has to be accounted for.

Results have been bad too. No playoff appearances in 5 seasons, though he was robbed of one in the COVID year. I think his systems are a little outdated for the modern game. Very passive. Team is regularly dominated territorially and has a ton of trouble generating anything at 5-on-5.

He's a good interview, but so was Kurt Kleinendorst. You have to produce.

 

[Sens in Process]

Prevailing wisdom among enlightened Sens fans was Rick Bowness good/Dorion bad and DJ bad/ Mann good.

The Mann firing just blew a hole through that framework. How are we going square that circle? I guess Bowness now joins the ranks of the bad?

The people clamoring for changes in management assume that new the regime would somehow be more aligned with the common sense of Sens twitter or Hfboards. New management could have radically different perspective on the team. And with no history and fidelity to the current group of players, they may decide to make some significant changes to the core. Maybe flipping Chabot or Debrincat? Or trading Zub? Who knows?

Brady, Timmy and Jake are probably the only untouchables.

 

[Masked]

Has Eugene risen from the dead? This feels like the first real WTF moment since he died.

Assen na yo!

 

[Que]

What.

The.

Focaccia.