HOT SEAT STATUS: Seriously, who among us thought that Torts’ seat would be slightly colder than the surface temperature of Neptune? (The planet. You know it’s hot, but it’s only going to get hotter.
HOT SEAT STATUS: Like watching last night’s mac-and-cheese bubble and boil in the microwave.
In both, the team is well below respectable in puck possession (46.17 last season at 5-on-5 Corsi 47.38 this season), leading one to wonder if a team allegedly committed to analytics is even looking at the data. Hynes has coached the Devils for two seasons. Having Cory Schneider second in the NHL in the number of mid-danger shot attempts he’s faced (242, second only to Cam Talbot of the porous Oilers) is inexcusable. A minus-22 goal differential is inexcusable. It’s not just that the Devils are losing – 13-14-7 in 34 games – but it’s how they’re losing. HOT SEAT STATUS: Like scalding hot coffee that you drink anyway because there are no other options.
GOLF WITH YOUR FRIENDS HOT SEAT FREE
Say what you will about Capuano’s failings as a coach – there’s no question that Snow hasn’t given him the soldiers this season, especially after losing Kyle Okposo and Frans Nielsen to free agency. It appears they’re a package deal, which means the likelihood they’re both tossed into the bay when the Islanders hire a new team president soon is increasingly higher. You’d figure the Islanders would have already turfed Capuano given their 13-14-6 record in 33 games and pathetic underlying numbers (45.93 Corsi at even strength).īut he’s Garth Snow’s guy, and he’s been Garth Snow’s guy since he was hired as the full-time head coach on April 12, 2011. HOT SEAT STATUS: Like bleachers at a Little League baseball game in the middle of an August afternoon. “Ryan Road” as in Rex Ryan, that other high-profile, heavily hyped coach Terry Pegula hired that hasn’t gotten results. It’s to the point where it’s now an open discussion among Sabres fans if Bylsma, in just the second year of a five-year contract, should be heading down Ryan Road to the unemployment line too if his team continues to implode: Lately, it seems as if Bylsma has lost his mind. The Sabres need to skate and not think so much on the ice but their coach has to allow them to play that way. Tyler Ennis, when he was healthy, had the same problem.
Zemgus Girgensons clearly can’t make heads or tails out of it. Players’ instincts are stunted in place of where-should-I-be second thoughts. Mike Harrington eviscerated Bylsma in a column this week in the Buffalo News, listing his various lineup sins (including some discipline for Jack Eichel) and his overall game-plan:īylsma’s plodding system is flat-out unwatchable at times. (Such are coach/GM thermodynamics in the NHL.) The heat is coming down on Bylsma and GM Tim Murray, although admittedly it’s a bit warmer for the former than the latter. Their goal differential is minus-20, second-worst in the conference (inexplicably better than that of the New Jersey Devils … more on that in a bit). They’re in the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings at 12-13-8 in 33 games. Which NHL coaches should be seeking an ice bath for their smoldering rumps entering 2017? Glad you asked …
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