Willie Desjardins out in L.A

[koyvoo]

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[td_ice]

Congrats to Kings fans.

 

[KingsHockey24]

Worse than Marc Crawford.

 

[serp]

He did what he was hired to do. Lead the team to very good lottery odds. Thats all Willie was hired to do , albeit i doubt he did that on purpose .

 

[Regal]

Was this even a question?

 

[HansonBro]

The NHL's biggest p**sing match at who can suck the hardest between coaches.

Wasnt long ago LA was concidered a deep roster...

 

[BlueDream]

At least they saved another organization from ever hiring him again. Awful.

 

[KingsFan7824]

He was never really in. The veterans earned him though. Nobody was ready to play from day 1 of training camp. My theory is Vegas beat reality into them in the playoffs last year, and the players all knew they had no chance in what the NHL is now. At least the Pacioretty deal fell through, and all they gave up was cap space for Kovalchuk.

 

[belair]

Todd McLellan assumes the role shortly, one would assume.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Today is officially Black Sunday in the NHL.

 

[PanniniClaus]

There are times franchises need coaches to step in and lose as many games as possible. Willie will always have work as long as teams are looking to tank.

 

[vanarchy]

They should thank him at the draft podium.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Coaches falling like flies now.

This one doesn't come as a surprise though.

 

[DeadGhost]

Congrats, Ilya.

 

[RebuildinVan]

The guy makes such baffling decisions. Easily the most frustrating coach Ive seen

 

[Dirty Dog]

He was, like Housley, god awful at coaching.

 

[King'sPawn]

I barely stomached 3/4 of a season with him.

Major respect to Vancouver fans tolerating him as long as they did.

- Over-reliance on the vets (especially Kopitar and Doughty)
- Admitting he's playing a player to his weakness
- Playing some of the top young players less than 10 minutes/night
- refusing to play a young defenseman unless one of the top 6 gets injured, because rotating one of them out for a game would kill confidence... but then rotates out a young Russian forward in favor of a different non-Russian forward because there needs to be a rotation.
- Finally admitting it is time to rotate the bottom spot amongst 3 defenseman, then only doing it once

 

[CascadiaPuck]

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

 

[dryz]

Thank you for the tank, Willie.

 

[The Macho King]

I honestly was wondering what took so long. I know they're 3 hours behind, but I would have done it the second the horn sounded last night.

 

[DanrikCarter]

Was hiring this guy a tank move? Seriously, that's the only way his hiring would make sense to me.

 

[PecaFan]

Was hiring this guy a tank move? Seriously, that's the only way his hiring would make sense to me.

There was never any doubt of that. He's an awful coach, LA knew they were not making the playoffs when they hired him, and picked a guy who had no chance of leading the team to a 'resurgence to 10th overall pick'.

 

[Bounces R Way]

And so ends the illustrious NHL coaching career of Willie Desjardins.

 

[super6646]

There are times franchises need coaches to step in and lose as many games as possible. Willie will always have work as long as teams are looking to tank.

Lmao

 

[POVERTY]

He did exactly what he does best: put an abortion of a hockey product on the ice.

Enjoy the pick, LA