Le fait que les trois coupes du Diable soient remportées par des entraîneurs différents, c’est incroyable pour moi.
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Imsorrymanyt
@Devils du New Jersey
Le fait que les trois coupes du Diable soient remportées par des entraîneurs différents, c’est incroyable pour moi.
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Imsorrymanyt
36 Comments
Its Lemaire.
Jacques Lemaire or Larry Robinson.
Hischer is the best two way forward
Its fucking Pat Burns and it isn’t close.
Pat Burns
Can it be both Pat Burns and Jacques Lemaire?
Lemaire.
My biased vote is for Robinson, but you can’t go wrong with either him or Lemaire. Both had profound impacts on the team’s history.
It’s Lemaire. He was a brilliant defensive coach who helped mold our team culture. He lead the team to their first Cup in team history. When he came back in the late ’00s, he did the unthinkable and helped turned Kovy into a capable two-way player.
The only knock against him is that the defensive system he put in place was so staggeringly effective that we still have to listen to people bitching about it 30 years later.
Robinson
Jacques implemented a system so effective it « broke » hockey. Larry and Pat were incredible but they were working off Jacques’ foundation.
It’s Alain Nasreddine, no question.
(It’s actually Jacques Lemaire, with apologies to Burns and Robinson.)
It’s Lemaire… they had to change the rules to get around his system…
Pat Burns, that’s it.
Lemaire no question. Burns is a real close 2nd
Gotta be Lemaire. Burns deserves all the praise he got, though.
Lemaire or Burns
I want us to pick Lindy just to see the carnage, but yes it is Lemaire.
Has to be Jacques,but I loved Pat Burns.What a shame they didn’t vote him into the Hall til after he died
Lemaire and Robinson. Those two helped shape the devils. Everyone always credits the devils for bringing the trap to the league, but it was really the Canadiens and the devils just aped it from them to great success.
Lemaire, Robinson, Burns. Take your pick
Debour is runner up for 4th place.
Lemaire gave the devils their identity
Pat Burns
Lemare obviously.
But I gotta throw a vote out there for Jim « have another doughnut » Schoenfeld. I mean, come on! He made the league [bring in replacement refs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpcb5aTnPk)!
Lemaire
It has to be Lemaire right? Burns is up there but I’m leaning towards Lemaire
Lou Lamoirello. Of coaches who coached more than 5 games, he’s got the 5th best point percentage of all time.
Check out https://www.hockey-reference.com/coaches/NHL_stats.html
Sort by point percentage.
I’m going to say Robertson.
Robertson was on the coaching staff for all 5 finals appearances. The 2000 team wouldn’t have won if Lou didn’t make him head coach. The Devils best ever regular season IMO was the 2001 season after that.
Lemaire was a great coach but there were some very disappointing early playoff exits in the late 90s (while Robinson was coaching elsewhere).
If Jacques Lemaire didn’t exist, I would vote Pat Burns.
Jacques Lemaire was the architect of the greatest defensive team in NHL history. He’s not only the devils greatest head coach, he’s on of hockey history’s greatest coaches
Larry Robinson
Lemaire
Lemaire is the reason people say we ruined hockey. I love that.
Sheldon Keefe
Burns
Robinson