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Coaching and management changes around the league

Hang on just one second. Are you guys trying to suggest that the Habs run through the playoffs last year was just the result of some luck and a hot goalie and not managerial brilliance at the helm of a bunch of scrappy winners whose fortitude made up for their lack of skill?

Well, that sort of thing I just do not have time for.
 
Unless he was outright ruining the development of their prospects (a la New York Rangers under David Quinn?), or some sort of HR nightmare, was not in Montreal's best interest to hold steady on the rudder? Ducharme got a 3 year extension in the offseason, so they are now paying a good number of people to not be there (are they still paying Julien? lol).

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https://twitter.com/pierrevlebrun/status/1491512391967948802
 
https://twitter.com/KevinWeekes/status/1491522861722480642

Oh I see. Runway for a rookie coach.
 
herman said:
Unless he was outright ruining the development of their prospects (a la New York Rangers under David Quinn?), or some sort of HR nightmare, was not in Montreal's best interest to hold steady on the rudder? Ducharme got a 3 year extension in the offseason, so they are now paying a good number of people to not be there (are they still paying Julien? lol).
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Yeah I don't get it either.  They seem like a slam-dunk to finish 32nd and get the best odds of #1 overall pick, why ruin a good thing?  If they get that "new coach bounce" and start winning a few games it puts all that in jeopardy. 
 
Zee said:
herman said:
Unless he was outright ruining the development of their prospects (a la New York Rangers under David Quinn?), or some sort of HR nightmare, was not in Montreal's best interest to hold steady on the rudder? Ducharme got a 3 year extension in the offseason, so they are now paying a good number of people to not be there (are they still paying Julien? lol).
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Yeah I don't get it either.  They seem like a slam-dunk to finish 32nd and get the best odds of #1 overall pick, why ruin a good thing?  If they get that "new coach bounce" and start winning a few games it puts all that in jeopardy.
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Well, just to counter my own argument a bit: what available coach could fix what ails the Habs right now enough to give them even two-digit wins on the season?
 
This would make for the 8th coach in 9 years for the Oilers. At some point, maybe, do you start thinking the issue isn't the Coaching?
 
Dave Tippet's final decision as head coach of the Oilers was to play 39-year old Mike Smith, who because of injuries had only played in 6 games this season and hadn't played in over a month, in both games of a back-to-back set.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Dave Tippet's final decision as head coach of the Oilers was to play 39-year old Mike Smith, who because of injuries had only played in 6 games this season and hadn't played in over a month, in both games of a back-to-back set.
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Maybe he wanted to get fired lol.
 
Nik said:
This would make for the 8th coach in 9 years for the Oilers. At some point, maybe, do you start thinking the issue isn't the Coaching?
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That really is unbelievable. Maybe the answer is a another hard-working winger? Nick Ritchie for a Rexall gift card?
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1491805470754938880
Didn't want to touch the Babcock eh
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Why would Babcock want another job right now? 5 mil until 2023? Ride that out?
 
Nik said:
This would make for the 8th coach in 9 years for the Oilers. At some point, maybe, do you start thinking the issue isn't the Coaching?
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Exactly, Ken Holland doesn't exactly strike me as great or even good GM.  His last years in Detroit were not exactly inspiring. I heard Mark Hunter is available if they want to make more changes out there.
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/canadiensmtl/status/1491527207440822281
Ofish now
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I was definitely thinking of making the joke that Montreal is going to try to pull together that Tampa team after signing MSL.

https://twitter.com/canadiensmtl/status/1494673156719710214
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/SanJoseSharks/status/1512113600286150657
Reads like a soft firing to me
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19 years.  Holy, and around here people freak out on the GM after 3 seasons.  LOL
 
They won 16 playoff rounds under Doug Wilson.  Got to the conference finals 4 times and lost in the Stanley Cup Finals once.  Until the last three seasons the Sharks only missed the playoffs one other time during his tenure.  The Sharks are buried under a lot of terrible contracts that are going to be hard to do much to rebuild with but that's a heck of a run as GM doing everything short of winning a Cup.
 
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