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Coaching and management changes around the league

CarltonTheBear said:
Crake said:
Wasn't the rumour that Babcock and Holland didn't like each other by the end of their time together?
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Well he reportedly still made him a 5-year contract offer that would have made him the highest paid coach in the league.
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True but around that time it's tough to say if that was a Holland thing or an Ilitch thing.
 
Crake said:
CarltonTheBear said:
herman said:
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/TSNRyanRishaug/status/1125040188994899969
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#HireBabcock
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I gotta say if there really is any squabbling between Dubas and Babcock this gives everyone involved the perfect opportunity to end the relationship and have everyone save face. So if Babs stays we really need to retire this narrative that they hate each other and passive aggressively trade barbs in the media and on twitter.
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Wasn't the rumour that Babcock and Holland didn't like each other by the end of their time together?
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Absence makes the heart fonder
 
https://twitter.com/tsnbobmckenzie/status/1128477197264719872

I was hoping we could pick him up as an assistant, but obviously the head coaching job is his better option.
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/tsnbobmckenzie/status/1128477197264719872

I was hoping we could pick him up as an assistant, but obviously the head coaching job is his better option.
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Didn't sound like he had any interest to be an assistant.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
herman said:
https://twitter.com/tsnbobmckenzie/status/1128477197264719872

I was hoping we could pick him up as an assistant, but obviously the head coaching job is his better option.
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Didn't sound like he had any interest to be an assistant.
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He wanted a POHO role, right?
 
CarltonTheBear said:
herman said:
He wanted a POHO role, right?
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That seemed to be the original report, yeah. So I'm surprised he even took a head coach job.
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Only Ottawa is looking for a POHO and no one on his shortlist even gave Melnyk an interview.
 
herman said:
CarltonTheBear said:
herman said:
He wanted a POHO role, right?
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That seemed to be the original report, yeah. So I'm surprised he even took a head coach job.
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Only Ottawa is looking for a POHO and no one on his shortlist even gave Melnyk an interview.
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It was probably just what he told Edmonton to get them to stop calling him.
 
As expected John Davidson is leaving Columbus, probably to become President of the Rangers.
 
Well if you ever get a chance to snag the President of a team who won 1 playoff round in 7 years and only did so by sacrificing a large part of the teams future you just gotta do it I guess.

I just looked at his track record with St. Louis too. He was President there from 2006-2012. Then with Columbus from 2012-2019. That's 13 seasons. His teams have missed the playoffs in 7 of those, and have won a combined total of 2 playoff rounds.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Well if you ever get a chance to snag the President of a team who won 1 playoff round in 7 years and only did so by sacrificing a large part of the teams future you just gotta do it I guess.

I just looked at his track record with St. Louis too. He was President there from 2006-2012. Then with Columbus from 2012-2019. That's 13 seasons. His teams have missed the playoffs in 7 of those, and have won a combined total of 2 playoff rounds.
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I'm not sure how much power he actually had in St Louis. The team was terrible under him, and for whatever reason, he didn't fire their GM until near the end of his tenure there. Was that his choice, or did ownership get in his way? He certainly made the same move pretty quickly after taking over in Columbus, and, while it obviously hasn't turned them into a great team, under his watch, they did go from a team that only finished better than 11th in the conference once to a team that made the playoffs in 4 of his 7 seasons. He's not a hire I'd be excited about, but not one I'd be upset with, either. He's a perfectly ordinary team president.

I also don't put too much of the trade deadline moves on him. That's on the GM, and, a good team president doesn't meddle too much on that side of things.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Well if you ever get a chance to snag the President of a team who won 1 playoff round in 7 years and only did so by sacrificing a large part of the teams future you just gotta do it I guess.
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Our team President has won 0 playoff rounds in 5 years.
 
https://twitter.com/prospects_watch/status/1131550320591552513

So many good options  ;D

edit: Swish!
 
herman said:
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A handful of other candidates went through the song and dance of applying, interviewing, outlining their long term plan for success with the Oiler franchise. Oilers brain trust throws money at Holland, the available name brand GM who has put his current team into the exact same situation the Oilers are in, sans McDavid.
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His team was a juggernaut for several years. They were due to crash and burn then have to rebuild.
They are not in the same position as the mess the Oilers are in unless all you're referring to was missing the playoffs.
 
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