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 Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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| 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.
"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
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