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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

It seems to be exceedingly rare for an elite player to be any good at all at coaching hockey. Larry Robinson is really the only one I can think of.

Maybe part of that is that the stars make more money and thus don’t have the same financial need for continued employment in hockey as the plugs or minor-pro guys who never played in the league.

But I dunno. It also fits with my own personal experience with teachers, where the more naturally brilliant one of them was in a given topic, the shittier they were at teaching others to do it.
 
LeafGm said:
It seems to be exceedingly rare for an elite player to be any good at all at coaching hockey. Larry Robinson is really the only one I can think of.

Maybe part of that is that the stars make more money and thus don’t have the same financial need for continued employment in hockey as the plugs or minor-pro guys who never played in the league.

But I dunno. It also fits with my own personal experience with teachers, where the more naturally brilliant one of them was in a given topic, the shittier they were at teaching others to do it.
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Toe Blake

Robinson

Ummmm yeah hard to think of one
 
LeafGm said:
It seems to be exceedingly rare for an elite player to be any good at all at coaching hockey. Larry Robinson is really the only one I can think of.

Maybe part of that is that the stars make more money and thus don’t have the same financial need for continued employment in hockey as the plugs or minor-pro guys who never played in the league.

But I dunno. It also fits with my own personal experience with teachers, where the more naturally brilliant one of them was in a given topic, the shittier they were at teaching others to do it.
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It makes sense.
It is hard to teach someone to just go end to end and get a goal like the coach did in his prime. But a scrub that had to fully understand all parts of the game is probably better suited to teach it.
 
I think he’s probably a bad coach but he’s willing to play the kids, especially the midgets, which is what the habs need.

Last thing they need is a real coach that benches Suzuki, Hutson and Caufield for not being 6’5 all day.
 
leafman101 said:
I think he’s probably a bad coach but he’s willing to play the kids, especially the midgets, which is what the habs need.

Last thing they need is a real coach that benches Suzuki, Hutson and Caufield for not being 6’5 all day.
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Those three are the bulk of our offense
 
MindzEye said:
So...just one 1st rounder then?
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At this point we'd have to give up 2.

Actually he's playing better than before but nowhere near where he should be. They'd need to find a rebuilding team with cap space to dump him. Currently that's us thanks to Price's LTIR but they'll need to move him before that contract is up. Even with the cap increasing greatly it's a bad contract. Even Gallagher has 7 goals this year so at least he's giving some sort of roi, anderfuck not so much 9pts in 18gp.
 
Habsy said:
At this point we'd have to give up 2.

Actually he's playing better than before but nowhere near where he should be. They'd need to find a rebuilding team with cap space to dump him. Currently that's us thanks to Price's LTIR but they'll need to move him before that contract is up. Even with the cap increasing greatly it's a bad contract. Even Gallagher has 7 goals this year so at least he's giving some sort of roi, anderfuck not so much 9pts in 18gp.
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At every point you would have needed to give up 2
 
Actually both Gallagher and Anderson are doing surprisingly well so far this year.

If I'm the Habs, I'm putting feelers out there at all times, hoping that one desperate sucker shows up to take one off my hands at the deadline without making me pay them something or retain.
 
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