At this point who cares?

How many people can name NHL coaches let alone assistant NHL coaches?

I don't care who they hire, just make it the right guy for the job at the time.

Ellis has certainly helped Casey before a NHL player. It's usually those journeymen type players that make the best coaches
- Stripes77

Good post

not sure why that's a problem...if they're blowing it up trading jack and sam, this year will be geared towards developing the youngins in an nhl setting, which is what ellis does anyway
- Michael Pachla

Regardless, the most expensive guy does not really need to be the best guy for the situation. In most cases, it isn't.

My source has been strangely quiet


- Hank Balling

Your source is a Whig and a traitor to this country.

Regardless, the most expensive guy does not really need to be the best guy for the situation. In most cases, it isn't.
- TheSabresTaco

sounds like donnie g felt really comfortable with matt freakin ellis and girardi, especially in regards to getting across to the players what was required of them

sounds like donnie g felt really comfortable with matt freakin ellis and girardi, especially in regards to getting across to the players what was required of them
- Michael Pachla

This may sound silly and basic, but aren't assistant coaches essentially development coaches?

Your source is a Whig and a traitor to this country.
- TheSabresTaco

What in Davy Jones' locker did ye just bark at me, ye scurvy bilgerat? I'll have ye know I be the meanest cutthroat on the seven seas, and I've led numerous raids on fishing villages. I be trained in hit-and-run pillaging and be the deadliest with a pistol of all the captains on the high seas. Ye be nothing to me but another source o' swag. I'll have yer guts for garters and keel haul ye like never been done before, hear me true. You think ye can hide behind your newfangled computing device? Think twice on that, scallywag. As we parley I be contacting my secret network o' pirates across the sea and yer port is being tracked right now so ye better prepare for the typhoon, weevil. The kind o' monsoon that'll wipe ye off the map. You're sharkbait, fool. I can sail anywhere, in any waters, and can kill ye in o'er seven hundred ways, and that be just with me hook and fist. Not only do I be top o' the line with a cutlass, but I have an entire pirate fleet at my beck and call and I'll damned sure use it all to wipe yer arse off o' the world, ye dog. If only ye had had the foresight to know what devilish wrath your jibe was about to incur, ye might have belayed the comment. But ye couldn't, ye didn't, and now ye'll pay the ultimate toll, you buffoon. I'll poop fury all over ye and ye'll drown in the depths o' it. You're fish food now

Hank Balling: 2021 NHL Draft Class – Tier III – Brandt Clarke (+ Eichel Skating)
- Hank Balling

Feels like most experts just cut and paste their poopty reviews without thoughts on changing them to the player they are reviewing.

This may sound silly and basic, but aren't assistant coaches essentially development coaches?
- TheSabresTaco

If that's who Donny wants, I'm on board. Was just hoping for a little more experience next to him. That's not to say they won't do a great job.

Feels like most experts just cut and paste their poopty reviews without thoughts on changing them to the player they are reviewing.
- jochfr

It certainly feels that way sometimes

Garf just retweeted a now-deleted tweet from Strickland. Based on Garf's tweet it seems as though something was close with Eichel.

Garf just retweeted a now-deleted tweet from Strickland. Based on Garf's tweet it seems as though something was close with Eichel.
- Slump Buster

It was about Gabe Landeskog

It was about Gabe Landeskog
- Stripes77

Yes.

It was that Gabe would want $9-$10 on open market. Garth said we may have $10m open.

Yes.

It was that Gabe would want $9-$10 on open market. Garth said we may have $10m open.
- Lilroot9

Ah, ok. Now way I'd want to pay him that much and no way he'd want to come here. Everyone is happy.

Craig Rivet is irate with Kaprizov turning down 9 mil a year.

What in Davy Jones' locker did ye just bark at me, ye scurvy bilgerat? I'll have ye know I be the meanest cutthroat on the seven seas, and I've led numerous raids on fishing villages. I be trained in hit-and-run pillaging and be the deadliest with a pistol of all the captains on the high seas. Ye be nothing to me but another source o' swag. I'll have yer guts for garters and keel haul ye like never been done before, hear me true. You think ye can hide behind your newfangled computing device? Think twice on that, scallywag. As we parley I be contacting my secret network o' pirates across the sea and yer port is being tracked right now so ye better prepare for the typhoon, weevil. The kind o' monsoon that'll wipe ye off the map. You're sharkbait, fool. I can sail anywhere, in any waters, and can kill ye in o'er seven hundred ways, and that be just with me hook and fist. Not only do I be top o' the line with a cutlass, but I have an entire pirate fleet at my beck and call and I'll damned sure use it all to wipe yer arse off o' the world, ye dog. If only ye had had the foresight to know what devilish wrath your jibe was about to incur, ye might have belayed the comment. But ye couldn't, ye didn't, and now ye'll pay the ultimate toll, you buffoon. I'll poop fury all over ye and ye'll drown in the depths o' it. You're fish food now
- Hank Balling

If the scurvy don't kill ya, the syphilis will, ya flapdoodle.

Ellis and girardi have "tremendous hockey experience" said meatballs..."they were able to help me and help us convey our message to the players, excite the players, be part of it..."


the "meatballs-effect" of he and his staff on the team when he took over:

"the psyche was real damaged. we didn't believe, we didn't see how we could win, we felt vulnerable...we convinced ourselves we were vulnerable and we even saw our vulnerabilities...

"i wanted to challenge the psyche...i looked around the locker room, i watched these guys skate, they're incredible, they're fierce, they're physical specimens...the strongest and the weakest thing in your body is your mind and we need to acknowledge that...

"do we need to win to believe?...or can you believe before you win?...

"again, the belief system wasn't there and i challenged our guys...we don't need to win to believe, to manage our psyche...and they embraced that...

"it's easy for me to say that but what we had to do, and here is where i compliment the whole staff, lack of confidence and a damaged psyche [means] there's no vision...they don't see how they can win, how they can imprint the game with their skill-set, their talent individually or collectively...

"confidence, i guess, is a belief that you can do it but maybe not a vision and we needed to get to a real conviction that we could do this, a clear, a vision of how we were going to do it...

"and that's where i think the staff was incredible"

Wow how greedy can Landeskog be.

Colorado is offering to set Landy and his family up for life but He wants to be greedy.

Something something career ending injury.

Ellis and girardi have "tremendous hockey experience" said meatballs..."they were able to help me and help us convey our message to the players, excite the players, be part of it..."


the "meatballs-effect" of he and his staff on the team when he took over:

"the psyche was real damaged. we didn't believe, we didn't see how we could win, we felt vulnerable...we convinced ourselves we were vulnerable and we even saw our vulnerabilities...

"i wanted to challenge the psyche...i looked around the locker room, i watched these guys skate, they're incredible, they're fierce, they're physical specimens...the strongest and the weakest thing in your body is your mind and we need to acknowledge that...

"do we need to win to believe?...or can you believe before you win?...

"again, the belief system wasn't there and i challenged our guys...we don't need to win to believe, to manage our psyche...and they embraced that...

"it's easy for me to say that but what we had to do, and here is where i compliment the whole staff, lack of confidence and a damaged psyche
- Michael Pachla[means] there's no vision...they don't see how they can win, how they can imprint the game with their skill-set, their talent individually or collectively...

"confidence, i guess, is a belief that you can do it but maybe not a vision and we needed to get to a real conviction that we could do this, a clear, a vision of how we were going to do it...

"and that's where i think the staff was incredible"

How was the synergy though?

How was the synergy though?
- Hank Balling

About as honest as my jar of snake oil and bag of magic beans.

What in Davy Jones' locker did ye just bark at me, ye scurvy bilgerat? I'll have ye know I be the meanest cutthroat on the seven seas, and I've led numerous raids on fishing villages. I be trained in hit-and-run pillaging and be the deadliest with a pistol of all the captains on the high seas. Ye be nothing to me but another source o' swag. I'll have yer guts for garters and keel haul ye like never been done before, hear me true. You think ye can hide behind your newfangled computing device? Think twice on that, scallywag. As we parley I be contacting my secret network o' pirates across the sea and yer port is being tracked right now so ye better prepare for the typhoon, weevil. The kind o' monsoon that'll wipe ye off the map. You're sharkbait, fool. I can sail anywhere, in any waters, and can kill ye in o'er seven hundred ways, and that be just with me hook and fist. Not only do I be top o' the line with a cutlass, but I have an entire pirate fleet at my beck and call and I'll damned sure use it all to wipe yer arse off o' the world, ye dog. If only ye had had the foresight to know what devilish wrath your jibe was about to incur, ye might have belayed the comment. But ye couldn't, ye didn't, and now ye'll pay the ultimate toll, you buffoon. I'll poop fury all over ye and ye'll drown in the depths o' it. You're fish food now
- Hank Balling

It would seem we have reached an impasse

How was the synergy though?
- Hank Balling

so synergistic it obliterated the psyche as mere mortal minds couldn't handle it

It frightens me less if MFE is going back to player development.

Who's the lucky one that gets to coach a PP without Jack and Sam? That's what frightens me.
- Powerslave

Really who is gonna give a shat what the PP does if jack and Sam are not here. I would expect nothing less then another 2-3 years of Top 5 picks.

Craig Rivet is irate with Kaprizov turning down 9 mil a year.
- ImThatGuy

Rivet. Is. Hommie?

No offense Hommie.

so synergistic it obliterated the psyche as mere mortal minds couldn't handle it
- Michael Pachla

Ellis and girardi have "tremendous hockey experience" said meatballs..."they were able to help me and help us convey our message to the players, excite the players, be part of it..."


the "meatballs-effect" of he and his staff on the team when he took over:

"the psyche was real damaged. we didn't believe, we didn't see how we could win, we felt vulnerable...we convinced ourselves we were vulnerable and we even saw our vulnerabilities...

"i wanted to challenge the psyche...i looked around the locker room, i watched these guys skate, they're incredible, they're fierce, they're physical specimens...the strongest and the weakest thing in your body is your mind and we need to acknowledge that...

"do we need to win to believe?...or can you believe before you win?...

"again, the belief system wasn't there and i challenged our guys...we don't need to win to believe, to manage our psyche...and they embraced that...

"it's easy for me to say that but what we had to do, and here is where i compliment the whole staff, lack of confidence and a damaged psyche
- Michael Pachla[means] there's no vision...they don't see how they can win, how they can imprint the game with their skill-set, their talent individually or collectively...

"confidence, i guess, is a belief that you can do it but maybe not a vision and we needed to get to a real conviction that we could do this, a clear, a vision of how we were going to do it...

"and that's where i think the staff was incredible"

Good stuff Pach.

It occurs to me that his comments support the claim that the organization had no vision for who they are and no (few) players had a self-identity on how they fit that overall vision.

Sounds like Meatballs-The Don saw this and set forth to change it.
Good on him.