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Originally Posted by cowtown75
I have been doing some research on Ralph Kruger and I got to say I don't understand the hype here. 48 Games NHL head coaching experience and most of his success was as a tier 2 german league coach (1994-98), and then he switched to premier league football in 2014 ? The guy isn't even in hockey anymore since 2014 and had a brief cup of coffee back in 2012-13. Besides writing a best seller book, I don't understand how people think he should be a front-runner for the job. He is in soccer right now people ! since 2014.
If this is all about being a good motivational speaker, then let's hire Tony Robbins because from what I'm researching here, I would take back Hartley over Kruger in a heartbeat. I even work with an Oilers fan who said Kruger was a good coach but where's the proof and the results on north american soil ? How can an opinion on him being a good NHL coach even be formed ? IDK, but, am I taking crazy pills here that people would rather a guy in soccer right now to be the coach of the Calgary Flames ? Not only has he been out of the game for 2 years and in soccer, but has limited NHL coaching experience to boot ( 48 G ). Yikes !
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The big thing about Krueger is that he was arguably the most instrumental player in building the Swiss national team. NHL experience is an asset but not required and his brief cup of coffee that you seem adamant to write off was probably the only time over the last 8 years the Oilers showed major signs of improvement, the only coach the players seemed to buy into.
Krueger is thought of very highly in hockey circles from everything I have read, probably more so than any candidate being suggested.