The 3 longest starving coaches are Cooper (13 years), Bednar (10 years), Brindy (8 years). The next two are Maurice (4 years) and MSL (4 years).
All are with analytics driven organizations and I imagine are heavily influenced by the nerds. Maurice is the only one that was a non- first time...
I want a coach who in game 5 OT intermission brings in the analytics team to ask what we can exploit, instead of going with an 0 man forecheck because he’s scared.
I’m on board for a coach that’s willing to let the analytics department carry the water on x and os and usage.
Don’t really care about experience or if he’s “a great motivator”.
Berube hockey was painful to watch. Easily the worst leafs coach in my lifetime. I’ve never not wanted to watch games before no matter how bad they were.
At least Carlyle let Phil be Phil.
Marner for Cassidy, McKenna and a 1st
You have to wonder if they are pulling a Devils with Mehta since the Cassidy stuff got out yesterday.
A real process worked for GM though.
The hard part is getting the #1.And that may not happen this offseason. But Colorado has Malinski and Kulak playing top 4 minutes in the playoffs. Carolina has Walker and Chatfield.
Contrary to popular belief the league has not caught up to the nerds yet. Especially on D where everyone is...
He had a bad year but he was elite for a few years before that and a massive part of the Stars runs. Still pretty young too.
Stars have made a lot of bad D decisions.