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Originally Posted by dino7c
don't be a fanboy and get all defensive, they have been terrible every year under Marty and he has no track record as a coach...last in the division three years straight. I don't want to hear about how great a coach he is until we see some results. If he wasn't a former star player he would certainly be taking more heat. Montreal needs to take some steps this season, they haven't made legit playoffs in 7 years.
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At this point judging him for Montreal's point performance is a bit unfair, that team is expected to be bad and has been in full rebuild mode since he was hired.
He's been a pretty good developmental coach so far. Caufield, Slafkovsky, and other young Montreal players have really praised him so far in helping their games.
If they don't get 80+ points and at least start to push for a playoff contention this season then I think you'll start to hear more criticism of St. Louis, but at the same time I think more people expect Buffalo, Detroit, and Ottawa to take steps in that division before Montreal, and Florida, Tampa, Toronto, and Boston aren't going anywhere.
They pretty much are expected to be last in that division and kind of rightfully so. Up until now I think he's mostly done what's been asked of him in terms of helping to develop the young players, but the Heat will start to turn up.
And man it's hilarious to see you call somebody else a fanboy...