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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
This is such a ridiculous stance. By this logic, no one on CP can ever contemporaneously react to anything ever. No signings, trades, hirings, firings, draft picks, etc. until things have played out.
This may shock you, but it's possible to have well-reasoned opinion and reaction, based off of information, before things play out.
I hope the best for Huska. He may very well succeed. But because of the complete lack of success at the professional level, I don't like this hire. As such, I have a negative reaction.
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Nah, that logic doesn't track.
This doesn't excite me, personally, but having a negative reaction? Based on a perceived lack of success? I don't know, but that seems kind of ridiculous, too.
He won a WHL championship (and took the team to the Memorial Cup final) and made the playoffs seven straight years with the Rockets.
His AHL record is pretty pedestrian but the AHL involves a lot of "working with what you got" and he didn't have much (especially in net) so I think it's hard to get a concrete read out of it.
As an assistant coach he was in charge of the PK and focused on the defense... both of which were pretty good under his watch.
Anyone can have any opinion they want and react however to this, but I think "well reasoned" is a little bit of a stretch. It's a guess based on pretty limited info at best.