Worst Sens Coach?

[Neil Patrick Harris]

I'd easily go with Hartsburg. Never seen a coach so completely incapable of getting anything out of a team.

Note this quote on the way out:

“I don’t get it,. They tell me they want to play like a team, but they don’t show it. They tell me they have pride in their play, but I don’t see it.” “It’s not my philosophy to have regrets. I can’t worry about what’s happened in the past. Coaches are paid to be solution-finders. Obviously I haven’t done that.”

His tenure here was just a complete hot mess. At least Paddock, Clouston and Cameron got the team to buy into a philosophy if only briefly.

 

[Beville]

Cameron/Clouston/MacLean/Boucher

Everyone else,

Mainly because that’s all I can remember

 

[topshelf15]

That list kinda represents as to why we have failed.....The 2 actual nhl coach,s ,are head and shoulders above the rest....

 

[Lucky Luke]

I would go with Boucher..................Georges Boucher.

 

[RyCam]

Paddock gets my vote because the wheels came off entirely under his coaching and we haven't recovered since. His answer to any situation was to throw the pizza line on the ice. On most nights that season, Alfie, Heatley and Spezza were playing as much as or more than the top 4 D(sometimes as much as the top pairing), there's no way that they weren't going to get burnt out playing that way half way through the season.

 

[BonkTastic]

Paddock gets my vote because the wheels came off entirely under his coaching and we haven't recovered since.

Did the wheels fall off because he was coach?

... Or did the wheels fall off while he was coach?

 

[RyCam]

Did the wheels fall off because he was coach?

... Or did the wheels fall off while he was coach?

A bit of both IMO

The wheels were possibly already falling off in spite of him, but he didn't do anything to counter it and may have even accelerated it.

 

[BonkTastic]

A bit of both IMO

The wheels were possibly already falling off in spite of him, but he didn't do anything to counter it and may have even accelerated it.

Yeah.

I'm not saying he wasn't bad. Just questioning why you'd have him ahead of some others on that list that seem like they deserve the title a little more.

 

[RyCam]

Yeah.

I'm not saying he wasn't bad. Just questioning why you'd have him ahead of some others on that list that seem like they deserve the title a little more.

For the sake of simplicity, I just think he was a terrible coach, and the worst on that list IMO (Dave Allison would get the top spot out of all Sens coaches though).

 

[trentmccleary]

A bit of both IMO

The wheels were possibly already falling off in spite of him, but he didn't do anything to counter it and may have even accelerated it.

Between the moment that Gerber remembered he wasn't "Hasek" and Anderson was acquired, the goaltenders posted a 0.897 SV%. Alex Auld, a backup goalie, was probably the best goalie we had over those 3 1/2 seasons.

 

[OgieO]

It's probably Hartsburg but I voted Paddock. It takes a special level of incompetence to take a team that talented and ruin them. We were destroying everyone, the it just fell apart and has never really been the same since. Some good years, but nothing sustained. So he gets my vote.