Like after caness 2nd goal.Send this man into the sun.
Someone needs to tell him timeouts aren’t like vacation days, you can’t carry them into the next year
Like after caness 2nd goal.Send this man into the sun.
Someone needs to tell him timeouts aren’t like vacation days, you can’t carry them into the next year
Who?fire him and get a proven NHL coach
GallantWho?
There’s no chance he gets fired and if he did it would be no different than Devils/Isles who still struggle and are behind us, because coaching isn’t the issue.
Speaking only for myself, I'm not absolving the players of anything. They're an incredibly streaky bunch who have shown disturbingly little ability to refocus once things start to go south. I expect multiple guys on the current roster to NOT be here in October.Why is this on the coach exactly? Do the players not know when the game starts? Do the players not know what they need to do to their individual bodies to have them ready to go from the first drop of the puck? I understand over-practicing a tired team and load management, but I am not about to absolve the people who actually play the f***ing game. Not being prepared is not having an answer to your opponent's powerplay or forecheck. Coming out stone cold flat is something completely different.
What about January/February ?It is amazing how a string of victories in the fall can create such unrealistic level of expectations for a season.
Team was 16-4-2 to start 2024.It is amazing how a string of victories in the fall can create such unrealistic level of expectations for a season.
Team was 16-4-2 to start 2024.
Yeah, I guess my biggest knock on Lalonde would be that I would think a good coach would be a stabilizing presence for their team. We have seen little to none of that this year.It's amazing the peaks and valleys of this team. Yet they still somehow never manage to find the middle ground and just be consistently average for really any time period.
What does "preparing his team" consist of exactly? No cliches. Just tell us what he should be doing differently to "prepare" his team. Every f***ing fan on earth knows when the game starts. It is pretty common knowledge published on schedule. Why grown men being paid millions of dollars need to have another grown man cup their nuts and spank them on the ass and tell them to be ready to play is beyond me. Pride alone and fear of embarrassing yourself should be incentive enough. Perhaps we need more internally motivated players.I said why it's on the coach. If it was a handful of players that's one thing. If it's been a consistent problem for the entire team, then you look at the coach. Each player can only look after themselves at the end of the day, it's up to the coach to manage the team as a whole.
Needing an entire period to get up to game speed is absolutely a matter of preparation. It's not a question of 'not having an answer' if they've shown, as they have on many occasions, that they're capable of coming up with that answer in the 2nd and 3rd periods. It's a matter of their heads not being in the game at puck drop. What's more likely here, that 20+ players are each individually sandbagging at the starts of games, or that the guy responsible for managing all of them as a group needs to improve on his end?
Does holding the coach accountable necessarily mean the players are being absolved? Why is it so black and white? Roster needs to improve overall, individual players need to perform better, and the coach needs to do a better job at preparing his team.
Coaches are grossly overrated at the professional level. Outside of football, they are largely just psychologists. They really only start to have comparatively more value when they are coaching really competitive teams where it is difficult to get better and improvements are incremental.Not impressed at all. Long losing streaks and lack of any in-game adjustment are fully on the coach. If you disagree and think “these athletes should be able to figure it out”, then the argument is that we shouldn’t have coaches at all.
Washington has 0 first line centres and barely any top 6 players outside of Strome and ovechkin and they’re ahead of us. Not an excuse for these absurdly long losing streaks
Bolded is false. Almost every game you get fans bitching that the 7pm game doesn't start at 7pm.What does "preparing his team" consist of exactly? No cliches. Just tell us what he should be doing differently to "prepare" his team. Every f***ing fan on earth knows when the game starts. It is pretty common knowledge published on schedule. Why grown men being paid millions of dollars need to have another grown man cup their nuts and spank them on the ass and tell them to be ready to play is beyond me. Pride alone and fear of embarrassing yourself should be incentive enough. Perhaps we need more internally motivated players.
For the record our inability to start on time dates back to the final years of Pav and Z. We have seen it through three head coaches and god knows how many assistants.
If Yzerman thinks the team has tunned him out, let him go and find someone new. Expecting materially different results, however, is extremely foolish given it is the players who play the game.
Indeed…It’s as though they really worked hard at becoming mediocre by the end of the season.It's amazing the peaks and valleys of this team. Yet they still somehow never manage to find the middle ground and just be consistently average for really any time period.
Oh, so now you are telling me the team doesn't have access to the internet in 2024? Please don't tell me that you literally think not knowing when the game starts is the issue. Please, please, please don't tell me that is your position.Bolded is false. Almost every game you get fans bitching that the 7pm game doesn't start at 7pm.
If coaches aren't the vehicle to hold players and their actions, ie starting on time, accountable then what are they even there for?
Had a shitty plant manager once that was bitching that he couldn't control one of the supervisor's attendance. Like "MFer that's literally your job.". If coach has a problem with starts, fix it or find someone that can. That manager, predictability got fired by a higher up manager that did have an understanding of what their job was.
I strongly disagree. Philly is better than us with a worse roster. Coaching matters.Coaches are grossly overrated at the professional level. Outside of football, they are largely just psychologists. They really only start to have comparatively more value when they are coaching really competitive teams where it is difficult to get better and improvements are incremental.
Let him go, hire someone else and the results will largely be the same. In the long run, water always finds its level.
And over time, the novelty of Torts will wear off and they will play to the level of their collective talent. If this did not invariably happen, Torts would never get fired.I strongly disagree. Philly is better than us with a worse roster. Coaching matters.