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 Adam
Messages: 7757
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 11 January 2023 12:59 |
| PlusOne wrote on Wed, 11 January 2023 12:10 |
Luckily the success of the team no longer has a bearing on my enjoyment. There a few players I am happy to watch, and 2 megastars I feel lucky to see. Other than that wins are just a bonus at this point.
Go entertaining hockey go!
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I don't know if this happened because I became the same age as old people or if the Oilers just beat the emotion out of me. I just enjoy watching and talking hockey now. Truthfully the Kings game was great for me. A lot of good pregame chatter here, I had pizza for dinner, then I got a high scoring fight filled game with a lot of drama afterwards. I even tuned in to a radio postgame show. I was entertained.
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Well, I wish you both well in your detached emotional state. I haven't yet been able to get there. I still care deeply about this team's success or failure and haven't yet become completely numb - much to my chagrin most of the time, as a lot of their failures are so easy to see coming a mile away.
They should beat the Ducks. They got embarrassed the other night and the last time they played this team, and it's coached by a muppet who is objectively one of the worst NHL coaches of all-time. His points percentage is .413 after 363 games behind the bench, and that's in the post-lockout era, when points are easier to come by. The only coaches with a lower winning percentage in over 200 games are:
Butch Goring (1986-2001) - 240 games .410
Glen Hanlon (2004-2008) - 239 games .408
Rick Bowness (1989-2023) - 680 games .407
Milt Schmidt (1955-1976) - 770 games .406
Mike Murphy (1987-1989) - 229 games .404
Doug Carpenter (1985-1991) - 381 games .403
Alex Delvecchio (1974-1977) - 245 games .400
Nick Polano (1983-1985) - 240 games .400
Vic Stasiuk (1970-1973)- 307 games .394
Red Sullivan (1963-1975) - 364 games .375
Tom McVie (1976-1992) - 462 games .352
Fred Glover (1969-1974) - 424 games .341
Curt Fraser (2000-2003) - 279 games .312
The only active coaches with lower percentages are Bowness, Andre Tourigny (122 games, .361) and Luke Richardson (39 games, .308).
If you era adjust then I think only the bottom 4 and maybe Bowness are comparable. Tourigny and Richardson don't have enough track record to be considered. I doubt many of those coaches have had the talent that Eakins has coached in his NHL career though. He's just flat out terrible, and it should be a complete embarrassment any time you lose to a team where he's at the helm. It is truly baffling that he still has a job in Anaheim. I suspect they just wanted the best chance they could get to draft Connor Bedard.
"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
#FireBobbyNicks
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