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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I think LA getting the results they have through changing coaches (promotion from within) showed teams just what a culture shift from a coaching point of view can do.
I think Vegas doing what they've done stresses the importance of strong leadership from the bench, and the results it can yield.
Does Chicago opt to copy LA? Kevin Dineen's name has been talked about around the league for ages - do the Hawks promote him? If that happens, alongside the rumoured end of AV with the Rangers...what sort of chain reaction does that start?
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Didn't the Kings fire Darryl Sutter who was a 2 time Stanley Cup winning coach who so many posters here yearn for? Well if John Stevens is a better coach then Darryl and Stevens is barely out performing Gulutzan, would that mean that Darryl is worse than Gulutzan?
As for the Knight's Gerard Gallant, guy is a decent coach. But he doesn't even match lines. He just throws whatever line out there willy nilly and lets his incredibly fast and skilled team take care of the rest. Gallant isn't some supreme tactician of the game who's won cups or had unreal playoff success, he's just lucky he inherited a helluva team who nobody has heard of. Their speed and skill trounces our edge and truculence all day and any day.
As for AV and Quennville and etc, they'll go to make a ton of dough but they better choose a team wisely or they may end up in a rough situation like McLellan who interesting may also be canned this summer even though he's owed millions for the next couple seasons.