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Its so hard to be a coach in the NHL. You can have an amazing winning record and still get fired. Take Berube and also Gerard Gallant for example.
getting fired before Christmas for a head coach that gets paid millions is a little different than for a typical hockey fan.
I don't think Berube was necessarily the problem, but he clearly isn't the solution either. I don't know if ANY coach is the solution though. The team is just not impressive.
I just want to point out the last 2 coaches have been fired after losing their last game to the Red Wings. You want your coach fired? Lose to the Red Wings.
I actually support this move, not because I thought Berube was necessarily doing a bad job, but that he was the root cause of some very obvious failures.
1: The power play. The structure and application of that facet of the game rested entirely in his hands. We have the players needed to make it very successful. It is, and has been, abysmal. That's on the coaching staff.
2: Misuse of players. Kryou needs benched. I was at the Red Wings game and he flat out sucked a$$ the entire game. He had zero business being out on the ice in that 6 on 4. Also, putting players in positions they aren't used to playing (eg; played left wing their entire career and gets placed on right wing, then punished for failing).
3: Inability to adapt. One of the things that made Berube great early on in his stay with the Blues was his ability to juggle the lines to get the best results in game. For whatever reason, he has mostly lost that skill the last 2 years.
I hear ya when it comes to getting axed at Christmas, but they have to pay him, and he will be with family for the holiday now. Plus, let’s face it, coaches make life altering money now. He really should be fine in that regard. He also has to be on any team’s short list for their next hiring.
What the heck is going on with the Caps? I'm sure you'll cover it soon
I'd love to see Ottawa fire DJ Smith for Evason, Berube, or Woodcroft.
I say they bring Ken Hitchcock back.
Firing Berube is as dumb as hiring Mike Keenan. This is all on Armstrong and his nontradable defense core
This is very sad.
I made a comment to a buddy of mine a year or two ago about having Berube as coach. It made sense on the 2019 team and even on the 2020-2021 teams. He seemed to be able to coach really well when he had a team of guys that could get an early lead and then lock down the game. Big guys that just want to hit and be physical.
This isn't that team anymore. When we traded O'Riley and let Perron walk, it was a sign that we were departing from that type of team.
Signing Thomas and Kyrou to long term deals was a further signal that we wanted to try and build a fast, young team. You could see that the team didn't look the same last year with this signal, and they are very hit or miss this year.
You can blame Armstrong, you can blame Berube. The point is he wasn't right for this version of the team. Time will tell if this version of the team is any good.
I'd take Berube in Buffalo right now.
Army is on thin ice man
Hire Coach Q back. Stillman should fire Armstrong because of his dumbass contracts
If the Blues players can't play for Berube, then whoever they are we don't want them on this team.
Army is on the clock now. He had some leash from the SCF championship, but firing Chief just reeled that slack in. A series of bad decisions and contracts is catching up to him…
the old saying goes, "coaches are hired to be fired". good luck Craig
Is this the second time a coach was fired after a loss to the Wings this season?
I understand there were a lot of empty seats at the Enterprise Center last night. I think that’s part of the reason for this move. The Blues can’t afford to have people NOT come to the arena because the team plays badly. It will be interesting to see what Army says at the presser this morning.
Good Coach gone !!! but he will land another job soon
This one hurts. Chief deserved better
Making the playoffs with this roster never should have been the expectation. Berube's spot should have been safe for at least this season, and he should have had the chance to coach a (hopefully) retooled roster next season. He has earned that right and more. This firing is premature and unfair.
Doug Armstrong has put on an absolute masterclass on thoroughly dismantling a championship team in very short order. Heck, he should write a book and sell it: "How to Destroy a Stanley Cup Team in Just a Few Years".
I can’t help but add one more comment about Sens current coaching…there was something quintessentially apt about Sens stars Stutzle barreling up ice on a power play and having a mid ice collision with his own teammate Brady Tckachuk immediately negating a scoring outcome…this is a team with quality players..
..CJ Smith has been a real positive for Sens…but time is now for a more structured and purposeful game…with a different Head Coach.
Out of all of the firings this season, I think that this is the one that is the one that was so unfair, exactly for the reasons you said, in comparing this with the the other 2. As you'd said, Minnesota & Edmonton were teams expected to win, while, on the contrary, St. Louis wasn't expected to do well. Let me know what you think & if you agree with me that this is on Doug Armstrong (especially if you agree that Buchneivich was A Good Acquisition to play along with Tarasenko, but, not as his replacement, which is what it technically became)
Disappointed to see Berube get canned for something that is really the GM's problem. Berube pulled off a miracle in the Blues cup year. Armstrong hasn't really done the job of building the team to continue as a contender – never should've let O'Reilly go while paying Kyrou 8 million a year. He has made no progress in improving the defense in the short term (although they made some decent draft picks for the future). As a life long STL fan, it's sad to see the Chief get the axe. Would have been a better move to fire Armstrong.
Detroit gets another coach fired
I believe you've got it wrong. Berube now gets Christmas off work to spend with his family, he is still being paid to the end of his contract. It would have been worse to get fired right after Christmas, after missing all that time away from his family.
Just my 2 cents
Columbus should take a serious look at hiring Berube. He's supposed to be a hard nosed, no nonsense guy, and the Bloojax had their best success under Torts.
Didn't see that coming.
Good, I hated Berube as a coach. He had no idea how to use players that don't play physical games, which is 99% of the NHL.
Chief didn't deserve this. He was given a mediocre roster and produced the expected results. No one expected us to be a contender this year, why fire him now? Why fire him at all? This really sucks.
Armstrong must have pictures of Stillman doing something really illegal because the idea that he stays yet Berube goes is ridiculous. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Berube (although I didn’t hate him) but this team is not his problem. Armstrong put together the most hodgepodge team I’ve ever seen. Armstrong is really lucky. He was bad enough to be fired long ago, but he got SUPER LUCKY for that Cup run in 19. This makes no sense. The Blues are back to their old ways. It’ll be a while before we see another run from them. 🥺
I haven't seen a single Blues fan that agrees with the firing on social media