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smyth260 wrote on Thu, 22 November 2018 15:01 |
Adam wrote on Thu, 22 November 2018 10:18 |
His best seasons are now almost 20 years behind us.
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I have seen similar statements around the web. Like you, I am skeptical. But if Hitchcock has anything, it is a standout regular season record. That includes this decade. His record with St. Louis and Dallas is 290-156-49 spanning from 2011-18. And I don't see the evidence of stunting production of top players. We can look at Pietrangelo, Tarasenko, and Klingberg as examples that refute that. Overall his teams do score less, and give up less too. I just don't see it with top players.
All of that said though, I am tired of the Oilers hiring the warm body. Hitchcock, Edmonton born Team Canada staple, is the closest guy the Oilers could possibly hire outside of the 80's boys. There have always been rumblings of Hitchcock returning to his hometown throughout the years. I am jealous of how St. Louis is handling their situation. Hiring an interim and the GM publicly casting a net from NHL coaches to junior to Europe. Wouldn't that be nice?
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I'm not all in on the Hitchcock hiring. Time will tell, but he is third all time in games won and I think he's a pretty safe bet as a short term solution. You also would like to think that even though he's 66 years old, he can and has adapted to the game as it changes. From what I've heard in a couple of his interviews that appears to be the case. There's also no substitute for experience, especially coming into as difficult a situation as this one. I think he has a good chance to fix it but it's like he said, the players all have to buy in.( It's a lot more fun winning than losing.) In this case I think being from Edmonton is a plus. He will have pretty big fan support right from the start.
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