Coaching and management changes around the league

[herman]

https://twitter.com/njdevils/status/1201974394823806977

Peter Horachek, currently one of their pro-scouts, will be stepping behind the bench to assist.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1204925586017325056

 

[bustaheims]

Man, coaches are just falling like leaves!

 

[WAYNEINIONA]

Boughner taking over.

 

[WAYNEINIONA]

They also fired 3 assistant coaches as well.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

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.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

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.

Why would that happen?

 

[Zee]

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.

Why would that happen?

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]

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.

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.

 

[Bates]

Many have Babcock in the same camp as well.

 

[Nik]

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.

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.

 

[Zee]

What are we up to now?  5 coaches fired before Christmas?  Is this a record?

 

[herman]

What are we up to now?  5 coaches fired before Christmas?  Is this a record?

5 coaches have been fired/resigned since Detroit won its last hockey game.

 

[Frank E]

What are we up to now?  5 coaches fired before Christmas?  Is this a record?

5 coaches have been fired/resigned since Detroit won its last hockey game.

And you're going to tell me that Detroit's own coach isn't one of them?

 

[CarltonTheBear]

What are we up to now?  5 coaches fired before Christmas?  Is this a record?

5 coaches have been fired/resigned since Detroit won its last hockey game.

And you're going to tell me that Detroit's own coach isn't one of them?

Detroit's season is going exactly the way Yzerman wants it to. Why step in now?

 

[herman]

What are we up to now?  5 coaches fired before Christmas?  Is this a record?

5 coaches have been fired/resigned since Detroit won its last hockey game.

And you're going to tell me that Detroit's own coach isn't one of them?

Detroit's season is going exactly the way Yzerman wants it to. Why step in now?

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.

 

[Deebo]

What are we up to now?  5 coaches fired before Christmas?  Is this a record?

I thought the same thing, but it turns out that 5 were fired before Christmas last year.

John Stevens in LA on Nov. 4
Joel Quenneville in Chicago on Nov. 6
Mike Yeo in St. Louis on Nov. 9
Todd McLellan in Edmonton on Nov. 20
Dave Hakstol in Philadelphia on Dec. 17

 

[Frank E]

What are we up to now?  5 coaches fired before Christmas?  Is this a record?

5 coaches have been fired/resigned since Detroit won its last hockey game.

And you're going to tell me that Detroit's own coach isn't one of them?

Detroit's season is going exactly the way Yzerman wants it to. Why step in now?

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.

 

[Zee]

What are we up to now?  5 coaches fired before Christmas?  Is this a record?

I thought the same thing, but it turns out that 5 were fired before Christmas last year.

John Stevens in LA on Nov. 4
Joel Quenneville in Chicago on Nov. 6
Mike Yeo in St. Louis on Nov. 9
Todd McLellan in Edmonton on Nov. 20
Dave Hakstol in Philadelphia on Dec. 17

So maybe one more for the record? Boudreau still in play?

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1213189351552606208