I’m torn, because well I think his coaching style really did make for some absolutely atrocious decisions, and really burned us come playoff time. You can’t argue that being as defensively sound as we were through the season with our supbar D-core is a huge achievement.
Astrowelkyn
I now expect Helle to be a finalist for the Hart.
timriedel
Well-deserved for the results we saw during the regular season. Also, in his end-of-season interview, he took full responsibility for how the players executed the plan during the playoffs.
Useful_Respect3339
Did we get the desirable playoff results? No.
But you can’t argue that he didn’t change the culture of this team from a toxic locker room and not a playoff team to Jennings award and guys seemingly playing as a team.
CoolWhiip
He’s not a perfect coach, but he took a team that had just won 39 games and missed the playoffs while getting absolutely lit up every night, and turned them into a 52 win team that allowed the least amount of goals against in the entire league, in the span of 2 years.
The playoffs and some personnel decisions throughout the year have clouded the minds of some people. He isn’t perfect. There are very few coaches who get everything right. But he’s still a damn good coach and was exactly what we needed.
Even if it’s time to move on, can we not give the guy his flowers??
whiskybean
Awkward just because we got skunked in the first round? Did people really complain when Cooper was nominated after being swept by the blue jackets?
We finished 4th overall, 2nd in probably the toughest division in hockey – he did a great job and is deserving
RememberThatDream
Being in the shadows of our playoff performance it’s hard to feel like this season was a success but think of where we were last summer. Scheifele and Helly on the trade block. Everyone talking about a possible rebuild. All of a sudden both guys get signed, we become the best defensive team in the league, Helly for sure will win the Vezina and even though Bones won’t win he’s a finalist for the Jack Adams. We got run over in the first round by a semi but I think this was a good year overall and this acknowledgment recognizes that
halfpints
Well deserved. The problem is his style doesn’t translate to the playoffs. We can play through slumps during the regular season with « stick to what we do best » once your playing the same team over and over again while they are making adjustments sticking to what got us here doesn’t work anymore.
zyxqpa1999
This isn’t unusual for pro sports- Dwane Casey won coach of the year the year the Raptors fired him, and Monty Williams was fired a year after winning the award.
Since it’s a regular season award it doesn’t really translate mean much if a coach is on the hot seat and is expected to take a team deep into the playoffs.
TheGreatStories
I’m surprised the January collapse didn’t tank his chances,
Canadian__Ninja
Second in the central, 4th in the league one year after being 4th in the central and… far down the league. Nothing wrong with the nomination. It’s a regular season award anyways
Greendaydude22
I mean anyone that wants him fired cause of lineup decisions are off their rocker and are being dramatic in my opinion, the team won the Jennings and finished in 4th, team missed playoffs the year before he started coaching us. He brought structure and culture. He’s a good coach, I don’t agree with his lineup decisions but he clearly knows what he’s doing and knows how to utilize this team to the best for their abilities. I just think the avalanche have a much better roster, they’re hot and confident right now. . Nothing is going to stop them and I’d bet they go to the west finals atleast, but I’m predicting they win the cup.
kingwoodballs
Awkward lol
Please.
No one picked the jets the even make the playoffs.
They were 2nd in the conference and 4th in the league.
choicestk
This situation happens quite a bit in sports a coach can take a team to a certain level and they plateau. If you look at his coaching history except for the outlier season with Dallas in 2019-20 (even more of an outlier because he was an interim coach) his teams have never had deep playoff runs. The tough decision for an organization is always is there still room for improvement or is a different approach and voice needed to go to the next level. Looking at his coaching history this seems to be a pattern and it is not going to improve from here, so better to make the hard decision now than to waste another year of this teams window with its core players.
ML00k3r
Plenty of Jack Adams winner have been fired after winning it recently. Not really an uncommon thing lol.
KingPizzaPop
Imagine coaching 2700+ NHL games with zero Cups and saying you’d rather play your way and lose, than change or adapt to win. Brutal.
waitwhosaidthat
They had a great regular season. Whatever happened in the playoffs is just so weird.
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I’m torn, because well I think his coaching style really did make for some absolutely atrocious decisions, and really burned us come playoff time. You can’t argue that being as defensively sound as we were through the season with our supbar D-core is a huge achievement.
I now expect Helle to be a finalist for the Hart.
Well-deserved for the results we saw during the regular season. Also, in his end-of-season interview, he took full responsibility for how the players executed the plan during the playoffs.
Did we get the desirable playoff results? No.
But you can’t argue that he didn’t change the culture of this team from a toxic locker room and not a playoff team to Jennings award and guys seemingly playing as a team.
He’s not a perfect coach, but he took a team that had just won 39 games and missed the playoffs while getting absolutely lit up every night, and turned them into a 52 win team that allowed the least amount of goals against in the entire league, in the span of 2 years.
The playoffs and some personnel decisions throughout the year have clouded the minds of some people. He isn’t perfect. There are very few coaches who get everything right. But he’s still a damn good coach and was exactly what we needed.
Even if it’s time to move on, can we not give the guy his flowers??
Awkward just because we got skunked in the first round? Did people really complain when Cooper was nominated after being swept by the blue jackets?
We finished 4th overall, 2nd in probably the toughest division in hockey – he did a great job and is deserving
Being in the shadows of our playoff performance it’s hard to feel like this season was a success but think of where we were last summer. Scheifele and Helly on the trade block. Everyone talking about a possible rebuild. All of a sudden both guys get signed, we become the best defensive team in the league, Helly for sure will win the Vezina and even though Bones won’t win he’s a finalist for the Jack Adams. We got run over in the first round by a semi but I think this was a good year overall and this acknowledgment recognizes that
Well deserved. The problem is his style doesn’t translate to the playoffs. We can play through slumps during the regular season with « stick to what we do best » once your playing the same team over and over again while they are making adjustments sticking to what got us here doesn’t work anymore.
This isn’t unusual for pro sports- Dwane Casey won coach of the year the year the Raptors fired him, and Monty Williams was fired a year after winning the award.
Since it’s a regular season award it doesn’t really translate mean much if a coach is on the hot seat and is expected to take a team deep into the playoffs.
I’m surprised the January collapse didn’t tank his chances,
Second in the central, 4th in the league one year after being 4th in the central and… far down the league. Nothing wrong with the nomination. It’s a regular season award anyways
I mean anyone that wants him fired cause of lineup decisions are off their rocker and are being dramatic in my opinion, the team won the Jennings and finished in 4th, team missed playoffs the year before he started coaching us. He brought structure and culture. He’s a good coach, I don’t agree with his lineup decisions but he clearly knows what he’s doing and knows how to utilize this team to the best for their abilities. I just think the avalanche have a much better roster, they’re hot and confident right now. . Nothing is going to stop them and I’d bet they go to the west finals atleast, but I’m predicting they win the cup.
Awkward lol
Please.
No one picked the jets the even make the playoffs.
They were 2nd in the conference and 4th in the league.
This situation happens quite a bit in sports a coach can take a team to a certain level and they plateau. If you look at his coaching history except for the outlier season with Dallas in 2019-20 (even more of an outlier because he was an interim coach) his teams have never had deep playoff runs. The tough decision for an organization is always is there still room for improvement or is a different approach and voice needed to go to the next level. Looking at his coaching history this seems to be a pattern and it is not going to improve from here, so better to make the hard decision now than to waste another year of this teams window with its core players.
Plenty of Jack Adams winner have been fired after winning it recently. Not really an uncommon thing lol.
Imagine coaching 2700+ NHL games with zero Cups and saying you’d rather play your way and lose, than change or adapt to win. Brutal.
They had a great regular season. Whatever happened in the playoffs is just so weird.