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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
You guys realize he has a former NHL head coach as one of his assistants. If they fire GG, Cameron will be the head coach at least for this year.
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Dave Cameron is a terrible systems coach, but at least that part you describe isn't unprecedented to have results, since he seems to be a decent talent evaluator.
Here were the ice times for some of the players on the 2014-15 Senators before Paul MacLean was fired on Dec 08 2014:
Chris Niel - 10:36
Zach Smith - 13:21
Colin Greening - 11:51
David Legwand - 16:18
Alex Chiasson - 15:48
Mark Stone - 14:20
Mike Hoffman - 13:28
Mika Zibanejad - 15:37
Eric Condra - 12:59
JG Pageau - 0:00
Their record was
11-11-5
Here were the ice times for those same players after that when Cameron took over
Chris Niel - 7:36
Zach Smith - 9:16
Colin Greening - 8:55
David Legwand - 12:57
Alex Chiasson - 12:15
Mark Stone - 18:14
Mike Hoffman - 15:01
Mika Zibanejad - 16:48
Eric Condra - 14:47
JG Pageau - 14:11
The latter ice time distribution seems to make much more sense to me. Like, more common sense. Their record under Cameron was 32-15-8
If Cameron does literally nothing else but get Kulak, Bennett, Jankowski, Mangiapane, Hrivik, Kylington et al some ice time, and cut down on the fourth line shenanigans, at least the regular season could be salvaged in a year we don't have a 1st round pick.