Ed Ned and Leddy
Brokering the Bally Sports + Corncob TV Merger
For all his warts, Lalonde is not even remotely close to the problem with this team. We’ve yet to assemble a bonafide playoff level roster. This season was nice but the team overachieved if anything. I’m not ready to pull the plug until I see him get a chance to coach and actual good team with enough talent to play his system properly. So far he’s had to ride Larkin and Seider into the the ground because he have no other top 6 centers or top pair D. Get a legit 2C and a competent 2nd defense pair so Seider doesn’t have to face the hardest QoC by a large margin in the NHL and then judge Lalonde. I think he’ll actually do really well once we have a properly constructed team.
100%. Yzerman stuck by Cooper after the Blue Jackets sweep. No chance is Lalonde at risk after his second season where we improved by eleven points.
FWIW I have a lot of respect for David Carle, I just don't see us in the market for a coach for quite a while.