Coaches are dropping like flies, 4 now, who's next?

[Standing Room Smoking Cigs]

I know the cap has something to do with this, so many teams near or at the limit... but the life span of an NHL coach is getting pretty precarious.

[Thorner]

[inkman]

Not Granato I can tell you that much 

[Stoner]

19 minutes ago, Standing Room Smoking Cigs said:

I know the cap has something to do with this, so many teams near or at the limit... but the life span of an NHL coach is getting pretty precarious.

The cap?

[MattPie]

9 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

The cap?

I'd assume that with the cap, it's harder to ship out players and easier to ship out a coach.

[PerreaultForever]

2 minutes ago, MattPie said:

I'd assume that with the cap, it's harder to ship out players and easier to ship out a coach.

It's always been easier to fire the coach(es). 

The usual failed build/rebuild goes something like new GM, keeps coach and changes some key players but then fires that coach after a year to bring in his own guy, then fires that coach, maybe one more, then he gets fired, rinse and repeat until you get it right. 

GMs generally get 2-3 coaches before they get axed. 

Deconstructing a roster of players is always harder. 

[PerreaultForever]

At 71 is Martin the oldest coach in NHL history?

Who gets hired next, Don Cherry? He's only 89. 

[Doohicksie]

1 hour ago, Standing Room Smoking Cigs said:

who's next?

[Getpucksdeep]

🧆🙏

[Thorner]

2 hours ago, inkman said:

Not Granato I can tell you that much 

We are becoming a model of consistency 

Edited December 18, 2023 by Thorny

[Stads]

32 minutes ago, Thorny said:

We are becoming a model of consistency 

Consistently mediocre

[SABRES 0311]

I can tell who is not next. 

Edited December 19, 2023 by SABRES 0311

[ExWNYer]

4 hours ago, Thorny said:

We are becoming a model of consistency 

 

[SwampD]

13 hours ago, Stads said:

Consistently mediocre

Consistently improving. Granted, not as fast as most would like, myself included, but they have gotten better every year under him.

[Doohicksie]

20 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Consistently improving. Granted, not as fast as most would like, myself included, but they have gotten better every year under him.

[Derrico]

28 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Consistently improving. Granted, not as fast as most would like, myself included, but they have gotten better every year under him.

[Wyldnwoody44]

50 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Consistently improving. Granted, not as fast as most would like, myself included, but they have gotten better every year under him.

This year? 

The year they were supposed to take an actual jump. 

This year is a big regression for all intents and purposes. 

[Pimlach]

56 minutes ago, SwampD said:

Consistently improving. Granted, not as fast as most would like, myself included, but they have gotten better every year under him.

[Stoner]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

Consistently improving. Granted, not as fast as most would like, myself included, but they have gotten better every year under him.

Was going to pile on with a meme but Sari isn't working. It's like the start of Leave the World Behind.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

Consistently improving. Granted, not as fast as most would like, myself included, but they have gotten better every year under him.

This is the correct answer.

[Weave]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

Consistently improving. Granted, not as fast as most would like, myself included, but they have gotten better every year under him.

Pick your metric. There isn’t anything in the data or the eye test to back that up this season.

[SwampD]

Check in with me again if we miss the playoffs.

[Pimlach]

Jacques Martin is still in the game? 

I suppose he will be demanding and will try to wake them up, maybe get them to play harder and be more consistent, but interim means interim.  This is actually his 3rd time being a mid season interim replacement in the NHL.  

 

Granato will survive the year.  Unfortunately he just got extended but I really think it is time to move on and bring in a coach with proven NHL success.  Looking at Laviolette in NY, he had no trouble installing a system that included offense and defense and special teams in one off-season.  We have to get the NHL club out of the developmental mode, that is for Rochester.   

Granato is a great guy and he did a fine job to the point that he can.  He has not been given a full NHL roster either but his system, and his glacial pace of teaching it, is not NHL level.  

IF you are not improving you are getting worse.  We are getting worse again.  Teams just know how to stop us and we have no counter.  

[Big Guava]

It better be Granato after tonight

[Doohicksie]

On 12/18/2023 at 3:49 PM, Doohickie said:

On 12/18/2023 at 2:42 PM, Standing Room Smoking Cigs said:

who's next?

No.  Really.