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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Agreed with your post. However, the ranting and raving is completely gone from the NHL it seems. Easier to fire a coach than to move a big contract. I remember Keenan talking about it a couple of years after he was let go from the Flames. Maybe he was just using it as an excuse (the whole 'semi-retired' thing), but he was nothing like "Iron" Mike Keenan while with the Flames. He felt that was a thing of the past as the salaries increased substantially for players.
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There has been a coaching culture change in the last 10 years or so, but I don't see it eliminated. There seems to be less tolerance for coaches that motivate their team through yelling and more negative methods then those who educate and take a more business sort of stance towards coaching. John Torterella (while fired now and I doubt sees another coaching position for quite some time) is definitely an example of this as is Dave Tippet and I think to an extent Dallas Eakins. Tippet is protected through politics with the Coyotes, but there were a number of examples of when he lost the room because of his methods and reporters would mention how you could hear him screaming post game down the hall. Or he'd pull players from interviews while on air to put them in the room and scream at them. He easily should have lost his job at the end of the season. Eakins, well I mean we see many examples of how he lost the room and his temper. There are still coaches who seem to think that method is effective despite the results saying otherwise and have GM's that are backing them up. Eakins I believe has his support via the "old boys club" way of thinking, Tippet because Maloney is an incompetent GM scrambling to do anything he can to keep his own job.