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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Kr55 wrote on Wed, 11 February 2026 14:47 |
| Adam wrote on Wed, 11 February 2026 12:11 |
| Skookum Jim wrote on Wed, 11 February 2026 01:09 |
I think they give KK the end of the year to see how it shakes out.. the defensive coach(s) might be sweatin' though .. 😬
Friedman saying Coffey isn't comin'.. which I'm OK with.. Coffey was telling the D to "make plays" .. which leans more offense.. our D's problem is they can't make defensive plays if their careers depended on it.. only decent D man that can play defense effectively is Ekholm.. and our PK is bottom of the NHL.. not Coffey's territory.
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There was apparently a lot of tension and dissent with Coffey there. That's not always productive.
That said, they've made some changes this year that clearly haven't worked. The coaching staff should be working double time to figure out what is going wrong and address it.
The unit last year and the year before was VERY good at suppressing chances. They were under-rated as a defensive unit but the stats suggested that they were strong defensively - just with mediocre netminding. This year, that's no longer the case. Goaltending is still pretty bad, but the defending also is way leakier. Not a good recipe.
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Was the tension with the players or the other coaches? Other coaches, then there probably is a bigger issue here.
I'm hesitant to give Coffey all kinds of credit for being some kind of technical defensive hockey genius, but boy oh boy have our defensive metric fallen off a cliff this season. Is it what guys are being coached to do? Or is there a level of accountability that isn't being demanded this year vs the previos half decade or so.
Our defensive metrics are the worst they have been in a long time, before the age of Skinner. We are back to the Eakins days basically in the quality of chances we are allowing. Abd Eakins achieved that by telling guys to just not care about the slot and overload chasing pucks on the boards.
I'm not sure if these guys are determined to prove that Skinner was never the issue by just sabotaging everything about playing defensive hockey, or there is some other big issue happening that Coffey was helping address while he was here.
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Rumour has it that there was lots of friction between Coffey and the coaching staff. Not sure about the players.
That's not THAT surprising. Coffey is a buddy of management and the owner and was not a Knoblauch hire, just as he wasn't a McLellan hire. McLellan hated him so much that he gave an anonymous and yet very obvious interview with Mark Spector, blasting the "Red Wine Summits" and talking about how little Coffey liked to do anything with the other coaches among all kinds of other gripes.
There is some player friction against Knoblauch as well though - some of the guys further down the lineup blaming him for their struggles. Frederic had some quote about hoping you don't get a whistle in the offensive zone or an icing or a TV timeout or anything, because you know you're coming off the ice then. And Derek Ryan, who was in the room last year, also piping in on that and saying if the depth guys don't get more of a defined role, then it's always just Connor & Leon's team.
Gregor did a comparison vs the other playoff teams in the West and our bottom-6 isn't getting significantly less minutes than any of the other teams, but they're scoring less. He didn't look at zone starts, but I suppose that could be a factor if they only ever start in D-zone or neutral ice. That said, their production is pretty miserable so hard to convince the coach that a winning strategy is putting them on the ice more.
I don't love that we have guys like Tomasek wanting out of here fast though. That definitely suggests there is something there and he felt there were things at play that were going to prevent him ever being successful here.
I wonder if some of the other teams don't go more power vs power and let the third lines play each other, especially against weaker opponents - leading to more offence? If you're giving young guys like Howard, Savoie, etc. no O-zone starts then it would be somewhat frustrating I'm sure. They want to produce but sometimes you have to spoonfeed guys a little bit to get them going. That doesn't really seem to be the case though if this is accurate:
https://www.nhl.com/nhl-edge/comparisons/skaters/David-Tomas ek-8485493/20252026/2/Isaac-Howard-8483455/20252026/2
Pretty even usage according to that. And Frederic's aren't much worse - 28% o-zone, 36 neutral, 35 d-zone.
I don't know. Something's wrong. The team is paying good money to a bunch of people to figure out what the hell it is.
"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
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