04-10-2017, 10:04 AM
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#1
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Vancouver fires Desjardins
Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie
VAN has fired Willie Desjardins as head coach.
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04-10-2017, 10:04 AM
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#2
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Springfield
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Willie was the least of their problems.
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04-10-2017, 10:05 AM
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#3
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: ...the bench
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LanceUppercut
Willie was the least of their problems.
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this.
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04-10-2017, 10:05 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Seemed like a good coach. For how bad that team was they seemed to be hanging in a lot of games they had no business in.
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04-10-2017, 10:05 AM
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#5
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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What else was he supposed to do with that roster? I thought they overachieved if anything.
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04-10-2017, 10:06 AM
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#6
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Self-Retired
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Was this a Linden call or Benning call, I wonder.
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04-10-2017, 10:07 AM
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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Jayson Megna is having a bad day
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04-10-2017, 10:07 AM
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#8
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Taking a while to get to 5000
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Well, at least now Willie has the free time to finish whatever it is he keeps chewing behind the bench.
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04-10-2017, 10:07 AM
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#9
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#1 Goaltender
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It was the coaches challenge that iced it for him. Anti-tank.
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04-10-2017, 10:07 AM
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Willie they find a new head coach to get the job done?
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04-10-2017, 10:08 AM
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#11
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Self-Retired
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The Avs and the Nucks taking the Coil approach... hire alumn to steer the ship and then fire everyone to save your jobs while picking top 3... it's a bold strategy..
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04-10-2017, 10:09 AM
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#12
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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Vancouver's Brent Sutter equivalent in their analogous fall from grace.
Do the Canucks bring in Marc Crawford now as their old-school re-tread? Or, does the team try to skip that portion of the comparison and go right to Travis Greene, their Gulutzan equivalent?
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04-10-2017, 10:10 AM
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#13
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Franchise Player
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He wasn't a good coach and even considering what he was given he should be fired.
But yes he is the least of their concern. There isn't a coach in the league that gets them even remotely close to the playoffs or plays kids that aren't remotely ready for the NHL.
Until Benning is canned the team will be at the bottom of the league. They have some young pieces but the problem is they are average pieces when you look around the league. A bad team doesn't become good by plugging in an average collection of youth.
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04-10-2017, 10:11 AM
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#14
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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It's pretty apparent the players checked out over the past few months but Willie had them playing hard most nights. You simply aren't going to win many games when you don't have talent to put the puck in the net. The fact their first line has two 36 year olds on it tells you all you need to know about how lacking the organization is on talent. I can sctually see them being worse next season with another head coach but maybe that's what they want.
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04-10-2017, 10:12 AM
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#15
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Elbows Up!!
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i'm guessing travis green gets it, but secretly pulling for Dallas Eakins.
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04-10-2017, 10:12 AM
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#16
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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If he can't find a head coaching job I wouldn't mind him on the Flames staff.
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04-10-2017, 10:12 AM
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#17
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First Line Centre
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Good of them to pull the trigger right away and get on with it. I never understand why this kind of decision takes a month or more to get done.
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04-10-2017, 10:16 AM
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#18
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Vancouver, B.C.
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Abortion of a hockey team.
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04-10-2017, 10:22 AM
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#19
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Self-Retired
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Does this open the door for Bob Hartley?
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04-10-2017, 10:22 AM
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#20
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Franchise Player
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The Team 1040 sees Hitch coming in as a replacement.
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