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Trotz resigned
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Tuesday June 19, 2018, 07:21:04 PM Eastern --- Trotz was to become a free agent had they not won the Stanley cup. I honestly think that GMBM had decided long ago that Reirdon was going to be the coach next season. That's why they blocks teams from talking to him. There were going to just let Trotzs contract run out. They obviously didnt think they would win the cup. Winning the cup actually gave Trotz 2 more years. This while thing is making the Caps look like a mickey mouse organization.
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Exactly.
zerofox:
I'm not too disappointed. Quite frankly for the first 30 or so games in the season when we were struggling, I attributed it to "new players getting used to the system & injuries" so I gave Trotz a pass. Things got better later on in the season but we had our struggles and there were some extremely frustrating coaching decisions that just made me feel like Trotz had to go after the season was over.
Turns out we won a Cup. Who saw that shit coming? Still, just because we won a Cup doesn't mean he's not going to make some of the same boneheaded decisions he made previously. I absolutely give him credit for getting us two President's Trophies and a Stanley fucking Cup. But I do also feel we need a coach who will lean more on young guys, for the betterment of the team going forward. Guys like Vrana and Burky and Djoos and others need legit opportunities to develop further, and I don't think Trotz is the guy to spearhead that change.
I'm less concerned that we lost a Stanley Cup winning coach, and more concerned that the replacement might have his own issues.
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: zerofox on Tuesday June 19, 2018, 09:06:24 PM Eastern ---I'm not too disappointed. Quite frankly for the first 30 or so games in the season when we were struggling, I attributed it to "new players getting used to the system & injuries" so I gave Trotz a pass. Things got better later on in the season but we had our struggles and there were some extremely frustrating coaching decisions that just made me feel like Trotz had to go after the season was over.
Turns out we won a Cup. Who saw that shit coming? Still, just because we won a Cup doesn't mean he's not going to make some of the same boneheaded decisions he made previously. I absolutely give him credit for getting us two President's Trophies and a Stanley fucking Cup. But I do also feel we need a coach who will lean more on young guys, for the betterment of the team going forward. Guys like Vrana and Burky and Djoos and others need legit opportunities to develop further, and I don't think Trotz is the guy to spearhead that change.
I'm less concerned that we lost a Stanley Cup winning coach, and more concerned that the replacement might have his own issues.
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Because we have been going through growing pains with Burakovsky and Vrana you think Trotz isnt good with young players. We have other young players that have developed very well under Trotz. Kuzy, Grubauer and Orlov developed under Trotz and we had a lot of rookies contribute this year. I honestly feel Trotz has done can excellent job in DC.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Tuesday June 19, 2018, 09:28:23 PM Eastern --- Because we have been going through growing pains with Burakovsky and Vrana you think Trotz isnt good with young players. We have other young players that have developed very well under Trotz. Kuzy, Grubauer and Orlov developed under Trotz and we had a lot of rookies contribute this year. I honestly feel Trotz has done can excellent job in DC.
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Agreed, but Zero is dead on to worried about the new cioach,
The growing pains where correct in the last 6 games. They will now be coming back from a championship and summer of partying.to a new system, new environment and coach that will be trying to win the room and get them to play they finished last yea.
This isn’t just the young problem cases, this is the whole team.
This maybe the worst possible scenario for a coaching chance.
KitFisto:
Yeah, they will be awful. Should phone the season in now. It's time to panic. Fire whoever the new coach is before the season starts. In fact, move the team to rid us of this embarrassing franchise.
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