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 Adam
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| mightyreasoner wrote on Mon, 10 June 2013 14:34 |
| Adam wrote on Mon, 10 June 2013 14:24 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Mon, 10 June 2013 13:51 |
I've got to stop listening to these things. Too many things happen that make me mad.
I don't like that this seems to have been decided on the fly.
I also don't like that the first thing Eakins talked about is "time" and "character".
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MacTavish was part of the three-headed interview monster that decided the Ralph Krueger was the best choice a year ago, over Tom Renney, Brent Sutter, Jon Cooper and others.
Then he hung out with MacTavish a lot this spring, they decided they needed an associate coach. They interviewed Paul Maurice and Rick Bowness, then sometime in the last 10 or so days they offer Bowness the associate position under Krueger. Bowness declines and goes to Tampa, MacTavish interviews Eakins, decides he philosophically differs with Krueger, agrees in principle on a deal with Eakins, then fires Krueger, then signs Eakins.
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I don't get the impression MacTavish was ever that high on Krueger. I think he was at best lukewarm. He kept it professional, but whenever he was asked about him, it seemed calculated and careful rather than candid. I could be wrong, but I just get that feeling.
Do we know that Bowness was given an offer? I read that somewhere, but I thought it was only one place and wasn't really substantiated or confirmed.
I still am under the impression that the last few days were more about being pro-Eakins than anti-Krueger.
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I think your last statement is exactly right. Eakins is the bright, shiny free agent coach of the summer. He's Scott Arniel. He's Peter DeBoer. He's Jon Cooper. There's a lot of hype around him...maybe more than with any of the others because he coached in Toronto, in a year where there was a lockout and they only had Marlies to cover AND he coached Nazem Kadri, explaining to him the value of a very high shooting percentage ahead of his jump to the NHL.
So when it was clear he'd only come here as a head coach, I think that the Oilers knew they'd have to get rid of their less new, shiny and sexy head coach to make way.
I think that if MacTavish wasn't sure on Krueger as the right guy to run the team, then he did the right thing in terminating him. Hell, I wasn't sure I agreed with Krueger a lot of the time - I think as much as he may be a motivator, telling Ryan Whitney that he'd be no better than a third pairing guy no matter what he did was a stupid, stupid move with no possible upside. I also disliked that the fourth line played twelve minutes a game during the playoff stretch drive. I think you have young studs, roll them out again and again...especially if they're the only thing going on your team. Mike Brown was never going to get us wins.
That said, I think they treated him poorly in this, just as they treated Renney poorly a year ago and Quinn poorly two years before that. I think that they never just let a guy go and they never seem sad to do it.
The list of players that have had serious issues with Lowe and MacTavish to the point where they seemed happy or relieved to leave town is a long one too. Mike Comrie, Patrick Thoresen, Jason Chimera, Todd Marchant, Sheldon Souray, Dustin Penner, Ryan Whitney...it goes on and on. At some point you have to look at the common element in all of that. People aren't just leaving thinking "Well, it's a business." They're leaving personally offended and upset. What do you bet that Horcoff and Hemsky leave with a bad taste in their mouth?
There's more wrong here than we see on the surface, and I kind of doubt that firing Krueger for Eakins and firesaleing Horcoff and Hemsky are going to fix the problems...
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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