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 Adam
Messages: 7124
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| oilfan94 wrote on Thu, 15 February 2024 09:44 |
| Adam wrote on Thu, 15 February 2024 11:39 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 15 February 2024 09:31 |
It's too bad. I though Jarmo did some really good things to make the Blue Jackets almost relevant for a brief period of time.
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I was always just impressed by his clairvoyance related to Finnish players. He just somehow knew everything about how their careers would turn out, and was able to just masterfully navigate the Blue Jackets to all their success as a result.
He did really manage to last a very long time, considering how little success he actually brought the team. 10 full seasons, plus the end of the 2012-13 year and the first 60% of this season. Five playoff appearances, one real series win, plus a play-in series win in 2020 Covid playoffs.
I do wonder how much the Babcock stuff put the final nails in his coffin this year. Team can't have been stoked to hire a coach not even to have him make it to the first exhibition game.
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I think he was on the verge of being fired for a while. I think Babcock and the resulting failures this season is probably what did it, but previous trades and signings not panning out has been contributing to this for a while. Johnny Gaudreau and Patrick Laine are supposed to be the offensive leaders, but both have taken steps back in Columbus. The coaching there has been terrible outside of Tortorella's years. I hope they actually get something decent going, I always hate hearing people say that Columbus should move when fans would flock to the team if they could have even an ounce of success.
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Good market, but not a well-run team ever. They basically always go for old-school hockey guy hirings at both GM and Head Coach and it never ever works out. Also outside of a couple years of Bobrovsky, they've almost never had a decent goalie. They're a lot like Arizona and Buffalo as teams that just never, ever get it right. (Edmonton would be on that list too if we weren't lucky enough to have McDavid & Draisaitl...)
"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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