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 CrusaderPi
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Registered: December 2003
Location: Downtown Edmonton
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| Adam wrote on Thu, 12 January 2023 12:12 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 12 January 2023 12:06 |
| Adam wrote on Thu, 12 January 2023 11:57 |
| kungpaobenji27 wrote on Thu, 12 January 2023 09:50 |
Good thing Anaheim didn't start their backup for this one....
If the goal is to tank, then Eakins is a perfect coaching candidate....esp in a strong upcoming draft class.....
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Yeah, I was thinking about that list of terrible coaches yesterday. Most of the longer tenured ones (like Bowness, for example) have had SOME good seasons that might make a team believe there's something there, or they only had one stint. Many of the shorter tenured ones got just over 200 games (so 2.5-3 seasons) with an expansion team or otherwise dreadful team, and never worked again.
Eakins is unique in that he's never had an expansion team, always had some star players, and yet has never had a single winning season, even though he's coaching in the Bettman era, when every year, 70% of the teams are above .500. He's incredibly bad.
He's still got some big boosters in the Toronto media from his time with the Marlies - he definitely cultivated some relationships that he's really relied on - but it's been pretty amazing he's got four seasons in Anaheim. Haven't heard any noise about firing him either...the Ducks probably don't want to hurt their chances for Bedard!
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The Ducks picked up an option to have him coach this year too. I think I read somewhere that Verbeek knew the team was going to be bad this year and didn't want to waste the coaching bullet on a hopeless season. And who better to coach a hopeless team than Mr. Hopeless himself? I'd bet they're just saving money and waiting for the guy Verbeek wants to become available.
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He makes his teams worse - so while it's probably really bad for development of their young players, he does improve lottery odds. If it's short-term, then maybe you can hope the next guy can get back the young guys after a year or two wandering in the wilderness. They'll all be so glad not to see Eakins and his whiteboard presentations, so maybe it'll help with buy-in? And in the meantime you add one more young star...
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Hey it worked for the Oilers!
I can't imagine that Eakins hasn't learned a few lessons in his six years of NHL coaching, but he was unbelievably stubborn here and the Ducks are so very bad.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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