When first asked to comment, he said he didn’t know he was fired. When told the GM had fired him, he responded, “I didn’t hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.”
capitals are 2pts behind them with a game at hand. flyers are 1pt behind with two games at hand. blue jackets are 1pt behind with a game at hand.
despite all that pressure the islanders have lost 4 in a row and are 3-7-0 in their last ten. they could have locked the spot up but instead are fumbling
exerscreen
That’s some serious desperation. Are coaching changes on the playoff doorstep by contending teams normal? I feel like this is a new monkey see monkey do thing 🐒
FreelancerTex
We bullied them into a coaching change Lmao (/s if it wasn’t obvious)
wildwildwaste
They hired PDB to replace him. I’m sure their lone goalie holding the team together will be treated with respect by him. I mean, he never did Otter wrong, did he?
WoodsFinder
That’s two coaches now fired late in the season with their team in a playoff position. Has that ever happened before? Seems like it’s usually teams that are out of contention that fire their coaches.
CasTimber
So weird how every season a bunch of coaches and positions like that get fired, and then inevitably rehired by other teams. Forget bringing in some new blood, just keep passing John Tortorella around and see if it starts working 🤷♀️
gooch_norris_
Linger?
CatchASvech
their team is a bunch of middle-sixers and elderly citizens carried by a rookie defenseman and a vezina caliber goalie. i don’t think Roy is a great coach but literally what more can he do?
Mike_Dubadub
Another reminder that Rod would instantly be nabbed by like 95% of the teams if he was available.
JoeMorgue
This mentality cannot hold forever.
There’s 32 teams and that number is only going to go up. There’s only one Stanley Cup. And even if they mess around with the playoff format there’s a finite amount of playoff spots and most teams aren’t going to make the playoffs.
Even if every team in the league is playing transcendently perfect flawless hockey… a lot of teams aren’t going to make the playoffs and only one is going to win the Cup.
Firing coaches when your team is in a playoff position in a league where any team that makes it into the playoff can make a deep playoff run (we’ve had plenty of « Wildcard team goes on a run » moments in the recent years) is just so silly to me.
And there’s not some unlimited supply of NHL quality coaches we can just burn through, which is why it just seems to be teams swapping coaches around more than anything.
By some people’s logic 31 Coaches should be fired every season.
JoeMorgue
It does seem though like Rod is the exception when it comes to « Good player becomes good coach » as far as long term accepted success.
I mean Gretzky couldn’t save the Coyotes from tanking during some of their worst on-ice (as opposed to when they were tanking due to business and behind the scene stuff) years.
UpperDefinition4960
If I had a nickel for every time a team sitting in a playoff spot fired their head coach with 2 weeks left in the regular season, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.
No_Still9501
So what did he really do?
canadian__girlie
Kinda sad about this. I was raised a Habs fan and he’s my all time favorite goalie. ☹️
21 Comments
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
God he was my childhood goalie hero. It hurts.
3rd in the metro isn’t good enough? Sheesh
We broke them.
That’s baseball
When first asked to comment, he said he didn’t know he was fired. When told the GM had fired him, he responded, “I didn’t hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.”
https://preview.redd.it/mebcqo40metg1.jpeg?width=1050&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2937aa54f18a5546ca364dffef5a51cb1006678
capitals are 2pts behind them with a game at hand. flyers are 1pt behind with two games at hand. blue jackets are 1pt behind with a game at hand.
despite all that pressure the islanders have lost 4 in a row and are 3-7-0 in their last ten. they could have locked the spot up but instead are fumbling
That’s some serious desperation. Are coaching changes on the playoff doorstep by contending teams normal? I feel like this is a new monkey see monkey do thing 🐒
We bullied them into a coaching change Lmao (/s if it wasn’t obvious)
They hired PDB to replace him. I’m sure their lone goalie holding the team together will be treated with respect by him. I mean, he never did Otter wrong, did he?
That’s two coaches now fired late in the season with their team in a playoff position. Has that ever happened before? Seems like it’s usually teams that are out of contention that fire their coaches.
So weird how every season a bunch of coaches and positions like that get fired, and then inevitably rehired by other teams. Forget bringing in some new blood, just keep passing John Tortorella around and see if it starts working 🤷♀️
Linger?
their team is a bunch of middle-sixers and elderly citizens carried by a rookie defenseman and a vezina caliber goalie. i don’t think Roy is a great coach but literally what more can he do?
Another reminder that Rod would instantly be nabbed by like 95% of the teams if he was available.
This mentality cannot hold forever.
There’s 32 teams and that number is only going to go up. There’s only one Stanley Cup. And even if they mess around with the playoff format there’s a finite amount of playoff spots and most teams aren’t going to make the playoffs.
Even if every team in the league is playing transcendently perfect flawless hockey… a lot of teams aren’t going to make the playoffs and only one is going to win the Cup.
Firing coaches when your team is in a playoff position in a league where any team that makes it into the playoff can make a deep playoff run (we’ve had plenty of « Wildcard team goes on a run » moments in the recent years) is just so silly to me.
And there’s not some unlimited supply of NHL quality coaches we can just burn through, which is why it just seems to be teams swapping coaches around more than anything.
By some people’s logic 31 Coaches should be fired every season.
It does seem though like Rod is the exception when it comes to « Good player becomes good coach » as far as long term accepted success.
I mean Gretzky couldn’t save the Coyotes from tanking during some of their worst on-ice (as opposed to when they were tanking due to business and behind the scene stuff) years.
If I had a nickel for every time a team sitting in a playoff spot fired their head coach with 2 weeks left in the regular season, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.
So what did he really do?
Kinda sad about this. I was raised a Habs fan and he’s my all time favorite goalie. ☹️