Coaching Carousel

[Ravin]

Mac-T back to the TSN Panel. Shut out of every job so far.

[Guest]

Mac-T back to the TSN Panel. Shut out of every job so far.

What is weird is that the two hires this week- Dallas and the Wild- have hired coaches without experience while those with experience have been shut out of jobs. I wonder why that is, because Ken Hitchcock interviewed for both, and was shut out as well.

[Ravin]

What is weird is that the two hires this week- Dallas and the Wild- have hired coaches without experience while those with experience have been shut out of jobs. I wonder why that is, because Ken Hitchcock interviewed for both, and was shut out as well.

Ken Hitchcock I'd never hired. He did a terrible job in Columbus, and I have this feeling his attitude fucked the team hard. I just don't see him being the go to guy to turn a team around right now.

Mac-T, honestly, I don't think he becomes a head coach if it wasn't in Edmonton, his old stomping grounds. I'm not 100% on him either.

Plus, teams are now seeing the benefit of hiring coaches from within their own group. By bringing a guy up from the AHL, you basically know what you are getting since you have had an eye on him anyway. It is a growing trend in the NHL to appoint the AHL coach to the NHL job, and I for one like the idea, rather then, as you so named this thread, a carousel of coaches going back and forth.

[Guest]

Ken Hitchcock I'd never hired. He did a terrible job in Columbus, and I have this feeling his attitude fucked the team hard. I just don't see him being the go to guy to turn a team around right now.

Mac-T, honestly, I don't think he becomes a head coach if it wasn't in Edmonton, his old stomping grounds. I'm not 100% on him either.

Plus, teams are now seeing the benefit of hiring coaches from within their own group. By bringing a guy up from the AHL, you basically know what you are getting since you have had an eye on him anyway. It is a growing trend in the NHL to appoint the AHL coach to the NHL job, and I for one like the idea, rather then, as you so named this thread, a carousel of coaches going back and forth.

I see that point, as the Capitals promoted Bruce Boudreau because he had experience with about half of the roster coaching them in the AHL.

However, what happens when their message becomes stale? You either keep them on or fire them. If you promote internally again, you likely don't have the AHL coach who spent time with a majority of the players, losing that advantage.

I also like the benefit of going outside of the organization when things are going badly to see what an outsider thinks and what they can do to correct the problem.

[Guest]

The final coach in the history of the Atlanta Thrashers will not be the first coach of the new Winnipeg franchise.

Craig Ramsay was informed on Monday that he will not be retained by new general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff. Former Edmonton Oilers head coach Craig MacTavish, who interviewed for the position with Winnipeg, has also been told he will not be selected.

In Ramsay's only season behind the bench in Atlanta he compiled a 34-36-12 record as the Thrashers missed the playoffs.

Prior to that, Ramsay also spent single seasons behind the bench in Philadelphia where he lead the Flyers to the playoffs and in Buffalo where he was a mid-season replacement for Scotty Bowman.

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=369529

[killgod]

I like the trend. The NHL needs more new blood behind the benches.

The days of Crawford, Hitch, Lemare, Quinn, etc, ...are long over.

The game has changed and these guys are old goats.