Skookum Jim wrote on Sun, 12 November 2023 19:06

Kr55 wrote on Sun, 12 November 2023 18:00 Skookum Jim wrote on Sun, 12 November 2023 18:56 Kr55 wrote on Sun, 12 November 2023 16:42 Adam wrote on Sun, 12 November 2023 17:03 Skookum Jim wrote on Sun, 12 November 2023 16:59 Rishaug confirming that Coffey's roll as assistant is only temporary.. which make sense.. I doubt the guy wants to be on the road all year doing an NHL coaching gig at this point in his life... Training wheels!!! When your training wheels probably also need training wheels. To be fair I think Coffey is pretty smart with regards to hockey strategy and defensive systems.. we'll see if there is any impact.. they still have Mark Stuart as D-coach.. I doubt Coffey will be running the show. We'll see how these players handle the shock of an in season change.. .. hopefully its a positive reaction. Its a player re-set.. clean slate.. everyone is re-evaluated.. the favoured and un-favoured start fresh. Not sure if Coffey has actually done a thing at any level of hockey outside his playing career to suggest he has proven NHL level coaching ability. A team lacking defensive structure ... does Coffey's career suggest he is the man to solve that? Is it like Gretzky trying to teach guys as a coach? Think super talented players make terrible coaches a lot of the time because they don't grasp how limited typical players are in what they can process on the ice and what they can do with the puck. Guess we will see though. Same kind of gamble we have made forever with ex Oilers. Did work out here and there with coaches at least in the past. Took the same gamble with Woodcroft originally.. turned out well.. for a while..

Woodcraft was around NHL coaching for over a decade though. Coffey coached Jr A for his kids team (got in trouble and was almost banned from the league) and did some zoom calls with our AHL D once a week for a nice 500k payday.

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000