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Post by Captain Obvious on Dec 30, 2019 9:24:04 GMT -4
Salvis was upstairs Saturday as well. This could be an excellent learning opportunity for him as a young coach, Lacroix has spent a lot of time as a video guy, first when he was with the Cats, and later in the NHL. I know in his early years as an NHL assistant coach he was the eye in the sky - does anyone know if he eventually spent time behind an NHL bench, or was he always in the video role? At Saturday's game, Hepditch was running the forwards, Boyce had the defense ... Hepditch seemed to be the one closer to Lacroix with whom he was consulting throughout the game, while Boyce appeared to be a bit more off in the corner at the far end of the bench. Kind of an interesting twist in all of this to see Hepditch back so soon after he couldn't agree on contract terms in the offseason - can't imagine the money offer suddenly got that much better over night, and I sort of have a hard time believing RKI would have let him walk over a few dollars this summer ... it would appear that either Torchetti did not care for him, or the other way around. Perhaps the rumors of Torchetti not treating the support staff well extended to his assistant coaches? In any event, whatever lead to Hepditch's departure apparently did not cause RKI to hold a grudge. I always figured he would be the first former Cats player to become head coach one day ... appears he has once again leapfrogged back into the pole position for it ... Maybe it’s just me, but I get the impression that Hedpitch was RKI’s “inside man” which Torchetti did not care for. I would rather see Salvis get more responsibility than brining Hepditch back, under him the defense never seemed to progress and they managed to run Bellamy out of town in favor of 3-4 journeymen that were all gone a year later. Strikes me as a move by RKI to ensure he has an idide man which Salvis may not have wanted to do. On this topic, I guess Torchetti went up one side and down the other of RKI for all the meddling. I don’t condone some of the stuff he did, but it’s not a good look on the team that the owner needs to be Dan Snyder/Harold Ballard like of putting his stamp on the team. It’s probably why Bathurst, SJ and Halifax are winning Memorial Cups and the Cats have not. |
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Post by hockeylaw on Dec 30, 2019 10:46:43 GMT -4
Salvis was upstairs Saturday as well. This could be an excellent learning opportunity for him as a young coach, Lacroix has spent a lot of time as a video guy, first when he was with the Cats, and later in the NHL. I know in his early years as an NHL assistant coach he was the eye in the sky - does anyone know if he eventually spent time behind an NHL bench, or was he always in the video role? At Saturday's game, Hepditch was running the forwards, Boyce had the defense ... Hepditch seemed to be the one closer to Lacroix with whom he was consulting throughout the game, while Boyce appeared to be a bit more off in the corner at the far end of the bench. Kind of an interesting twist in all of this to see Hepditch back so soon after he couldn't agree on contract terms in the offseason - can't imagine the money offer suddenly got that much better over night, and I sort of have a hard time believing RKI would have let him walk over a few dollars this summer ... it would appear that either Torchetti did not care for him, or the other way around. Perhaps the rumors of Torchetti not treating the support staff well extended to his assistant coaches? In any event, whatever lead to Hepditch's departure apparently did not cause RKI to hold a grudge. I always figured he would be the first former Cats player to become head coach one day ... appears he has once again leapfrogged back into the pole position for it ... Maybe it’s just me, but I get the impression that Hedpitch was RKI’s “inside man” which Torchetti did not care for. I would rather see Salvis get more responsibility than brining Hepditch back, under him the defense never seemed to progress and they managed to run Bellamy out of town in favor of 3-4 journeymen that were all gone a year later. Strikes me as a move by RKI to ensure he has an idide man which Salvis may not have wanted to do. On this topic, I guess Torchetti went up one side and down the other of RKI for all the meddling. I don’t condone some of the stuff he did, but it’s not a good look on the team that the owner needs to be Dan Snyder/Harold Ballard like of putting his stamp on the team. It’s probably why Bathurst, SJ and Halifax are winning Memorial Cups and the Cats have not. Why wouldn't the Wildcats give more responsability to Salvis ? I know it seems they are trying to priviledge Hepditch but people seem to forget that Salvis has tremendous Head Coaching experience in Jr A where they had a very successful season and won a championship with the Edmundston Blizzard. In that capacity, he coached many former Q players and saw some of them have very good season/playoffs in points production and exceed expectations for many of them: www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0083822018.html |
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Post by Captain Obvious on Dec 30, 2019 10:50:40 GMT -4
Maybe it’s just me, but I get the impression that Hedpitch was RKI’s “inside man” which Torchetti did not care for. I would rather see Salvis get more responsibility than brining Hepditch back, under him the defense never seemed to progress and they managed to run Bellamy out of town in favor of 3-4 journeymen that were all gone a year later. Strikes me as a move by RKI to ensure he has an idide man which Salvis may not have wanted to do. On this topic, I guess Torchetti went up one side and down the other of RKI for all the meddling. I don’t condone some of the stuff he did, but it’s not a good look on the team that the owner needs to be Dan Snyder/Harold Ballard like of putting his stamp on the team. It’s probably why Bathurst, SJ and Halifax are winning Memorial Cups and the Cats have not. Why wouldn't the Wildcats give more responsability to Salvis ? I know it seems they are trying to priviledge Hepditch but people seem to forget that Salvis has tremendous Head Coaching experience in Jr A where they had a very successful season and won a championship with the Edmundston Blizzard. In that capacity, he coached many former Q players and saw some of them have very good season/playoffs in points production and exceed expectations for many of them: www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0083822018.htmlI have a lot more faith in Salvis than Hepditch, I just don’t think the WC feel the same based on bringing Hepditch back and putting Salvis in the press box. |
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Post by hockeylaw on Dec 30, 2019 10:58:46 GMT -4
Why wouldn't the Wildcats give more responsability to Salvis ? I know it seems they are trying to priviledge Hepditch but people seem to forget that Salvis has tremendous Head Coaching experience in Jr A where they had a very successful season and won a championship with the Edmundston Blizzard. In that capacity, he coached many former Q players and saw some of them have very good season/playoffs in points production and exceed expectations for many of them: www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0083822018.htmlI have a lot more faith in Salvis than Hepditch, I just don’t think the WC feel the same based on bringing Hepditch back and putting Salvis in the press box. Weird on their part. Well, by doing so, they run the risk that Salvis will eventally get a better opportunity somewhere else and it will be the Wildcats loss. The guy clearly has good headcoaching pedigree and experience winning it all in his first experience. Wildcats surely have a weird way of conducting their hockey business. |
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Post by upndown on Dec 30, 2019 11:06:01 GMT -4
We will never win the big one dumb moves all the time
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Post by Captain Obvious on Dec 30, 2019 11:26:20 GMT -4
I have a lot more faith in Salvis than Hepditch, I just don’t think the WC feel the same based on bringing Hepditch back and putting Salvis in the press box. Weird on their part. Well, by doing so, they run the risk that Salvis will eventally get a better opportunity somewhere else and it will be the Wildcats loss. The guy clearly has good headcoaching pedigree and experience winning it all in his first experience. Wildcats surely have a weird way of conducting their hockey business. Part of the problem is the guy calling the shots isn’t a hockey guy and he values loyalty to him and being a company guy over results. |
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Post by hockeylaw on Dec 30, 2019 11:32:47 GMT -4
Weird on their part. Well, by doing so, they run the risk that Salvis will eventally get a better opportunity somewhere else and it will be the Wildcats loss. The guy clearly has good headcoaching pedigree and experience winning it all in his first experience. Wildcats surely have a weird way of conducting their hockey business. Part of the problem is the guy calling the shots isn’t a hockey guy and he values loyalty to him and being a company guy over results. How dare you say he is not a hockey guy ? 😂 Doesn't he proudly walks around at games wearing team colors/logo (cap) ? That's all he needs to be a hockey guy, right ? 🤣 |
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Post by Penguins23® on Dec 30, 2019 13:10:05 GMT -4
I assume that means Salvis goes back to the press box? Yes. Yes it does. |
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Post by hockeyfanatic on Dec 30, 2019 14:47:56 GMT -4
Has this situation ,Coach leaving a top team around Christmas , ever happened in the CHL before ? And how did the team respond/ play ?
I’m not sure I would go all in in this situation , I know the timing is horrible , not trying to be negative but hopefully my gut feeling is proven wrong .
Thoughts ?
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Post by Jack Bauer on Dec 30, 2019 14:52:20 GMT -4
Has this situation ,Coach leaving a top team around Christmas , ever happened in the CHL before ? And how did the team respond/ play ? I’m not sure I would go all in in this situation , I know the timing is horrible , not trying to be negative but hopefully my gut feeling is proven wrong . Thoughts ? You're not in 1st because of the coach. It's because of the veteran core you've assembled. If you had a young team and the coach left...yeah buying might not make a lot of sense. But you can't undo how old your team is or how good they've looked so why not give them a shot at winning? The coach is just 1 factor involved. If you were in 4th or 5th in the conference buying might not make sense. But from where you started the trade period...going all in makes a lot of sense. Coaching distraction or not. |
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Post by yesisaiditfirst on Dec 30, 2019 14:55:51 GMT -4
Has this situation ,Coach leaving a top team around Christmas , ever happened in the CHL before ? And how did the team respond/ play ? I’m not sure I would go all in in this situation , I know the timing is horrible , not trying to be negative but hopefully my gut feeling is proven wrong . Thoughts ? it's normal for contending teams to have coaching changes mid season- they normally are fired for poor performance under expectation starts they dont normally "walk away". I can think of 2 very late season coaching changes with Memorial Cup hosts (Halifax in 2000 and Regina 2018) fired coaches after their playoff loss so that a new coach took over for the cup. That's the extreme. Atleast Moncton got their charade out of the way b4 tge rubber really hits the road. |
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Post by hockeylaw on Jan 6, 2020 20:20:53 GMT -4
Laviolette is now available...
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