Coaching and management changes around the league
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bustaheims
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Man, coaches are just falling like leaves!
WAYNEINIONA
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Boughner taking over.
WAYNEINIONA
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They also fired 3 assistant coaches as well.
OldTimeHockey
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Pretty poor timing on the part of the Sharks. Despite them saying it's a pure hockey move, he will be lumped in with all the other coaches being fired right now.
OldTimeHockey said:
Why would that happen?
Zee
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CarltonTheBear said:
Yeah that doesn't make sense to me either. If you're a GM and not happy with how the team is playing and you want to fire the coach you have to wait now because there's other coaches being fired for abusive or racist behavior? They fired him and said it was only hockey related, that's enough.
bustaheims
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Zee said:
Agreed. There's no reason one team has to wait to dismiss an underperforming coach because others are dismissing racist or abusive ones. DeBoer will get lumped in to the "a whole bunch of coaches got fired in a short span" group, but not with those that are being let go for stuff outside hockey. Unless stories come about him, the fact that he was let go around the same time will mostly be forgotten in a year or so.
Kin
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OldTimeHockey said:
I'm sure some people might think this is pedantic but I think the reason De Boer won't be lumped in with "all the other coaches" being fired right now because of the growing push to change hockey culture is because only one coach has been fired because of that(and, technically, none have). Babcock got fired for hockey reasons, the other stuff came out after. Peters did get canned for the stuff with Aliu but he technically resigned. Everyone in Dallas is saying Montgomery didn't get fired for Peters-y reasons.
So there's no real lump to be put in. Sure, when I first read that DeBoer was fired I wondered why but that's just because I didn't off-hand know what the Sharks record was.
Frank E said:
Detroit's season is going exactly the way Yzerman wants it to. Why step in now?
herman
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CarltonTheBear said:
They're doing a bang up job. The capsheet looks decently projectable, drafting the past couple of seasons has been really good with some surprise gifts on top of it. Soft-tank one more year after this and the number of bad Holland deals left is down to 1-ish.
Frank E
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CarltonTheBear said:
I'm not debating that, and they're definitely on track to maximize their one 1st, 2 second rounders, and 2 third third rounders.
They've also got Nielsen for another 2 years after this one at $5.25m, and Abdelkader for another 3 years after this one at $4.25m. They've got a bunch of RFA's to sign, including Bertuzzi and Athanasiou.
4 of their defensemen are UFA, Green (34), Ericsson (35), Daley (36), and Biega (31).
Might be an interesting trade deadline for Detroit.