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I Hate Jeff Blashill because ...

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The team looked confused/lost and was mistake prone all season long. To me they looked ill prepared and/or his system was crap (probably a bit of both). This team imo is way better then Blashill was able yo get them to play. I think the team is younger with more talent then we have seen in a while yet the power play that was near league best last season sucked gigantic blue veiny beach balls. Face offs? what are those? Clearly NOT something that was practiced. How about CLEARING THE ZONE? Not practiced... What was practiced (and used a zillion times a game) was the lame zone entry of forwards skate puck to blue line then stop, pass back to defenseman and wait for him to carry it in.... SO STUPID!!! With all the speed this team has dump and chase for Pete's sake. Let those young speedy kids retrieve them pucks. This should have been the season Pav, Z and Kronwall down shifted to get them a break rather then expect they produce like they were 25 again.

Worst of all we lost out on the chance for some really good coaches for this failed experiment.

Can I start the bring back Dave Lewis thread now?

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I don't hate Blashill, I feel sorry for him. Holland is to blame here.

Blashill ran the powerplay not holland

Blashill limited athanasiou's linemates and over played the vets not holland

Blashill responsible for sending mantha down not holland

Point is Blashill is the one who made a lot of questioning moves with this team in the post season and is to blame , there's too much talent on the roster to score 1 goal a game , heck even nyquist and Tatar's goal scoring went down severely this season

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I don't hate Blashill why should I ? He doesn't have a lot to work with and that's the responsibility of someone else. But it's of course nice to see how the Anti Babcock crowd now has seen first hand that you can't replace the best coach in all of hockey and expect a flawless transition. AHL success is great and everything but the NHL is a different beast.

Not calling up Mantha and giving him a chance to play with Pasha is pissing me of in tremendous fashion, there was nothing to lose for crying out loud the PP flat out sucked! I don't care about a correlation it didn't work!

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The real thing we should be hating here is the make up of the roster IMO. Lets face it, with what we would consider a better coach, we barely made the playoffs last year, and have been out in round 1 the last 3 years. There are bigger problems here than the coach. It's the roster. Z and Pav are shells of their former selves. The D-men are... bad. There's a lot of "good" players on the roster, but that's it. Nyquist, Tatar, and Jurco are great examples of that. Good... but it doesn't look like they're going to get beyond that. They'll never carry the team like we expect them to.

Now did Blashill make some mistakes with lines etc... Yeah, maybe. But there's an easy argument to be made for just not having enough goal scorers on this team to get the job done in the playoffs, against Bishop, a guy who's bigger than the damn net.

Edited by brandon27

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I don't hate him. I don't like him as our coach, but this team with a great coach wouldn't have gone further than round 2. He's an average coach who will only take the team as far as they are constructed to go. Our PP was absolute dogs***, but look at Boston that year they made the finals. That team was coached by the guy most will be clamoring for this offseason. At least he was smart enough to make the Glen - Abby - Sheahan line, and to put Mrazek in.

Most of this season falls on the management and father time. Having Datsyuk, Z, and Kronwall all heavily decline in the same year is unfortunate.

I think we're expecting a lot cause two of our three last coaches are two of the best all-time.

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Blashill ran the powerplay not holland

Blashill limited athanasiou's linemates and over played the vets not holland

Blashill responsible for sending mantha down not holland

Point is Blashill is the one who made a lot of questioning moves with this team in the post season and is to blame , there's too much talent on the roster to score 1 goal a game , heck even nyquist and Tatar's goal scoring went down severely this season

Blashill himself doesn't make the decision on who to send down or call up. You honestly think that Holland after all his time with this organization isn't providing some feedback to Blashill about roster moves? You are so misinformed. I agree with some of your other comments and like I said he made some glaring mistakes but blaming him for everything that went wrong is ignorant and incorrect.

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Blashill himself doesn't make the decision on who to send down or call up. You honestly think that Holland after all his time with this organization isn't providing some feedback to Blashill about roster moves? You are so misinformed. I agree with some of your other comments and like I said he made some glaring mistakes but blaming him for everything that went wrong is ignorant and incorrect.

I don't understand why the GM is making these kinds of decisions. He's not coaching the team.

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Haha, now there are rumors abound that Z was overruling Blashill's lineup decisions. Drama at its finest. Do consider that one of the sources is some guy who has a hatred for Detroit sports @JeffMossDSR

Edited by puckbags

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Blashill himself doesn't make the decision on who to send down or call up. You honestly think that Holland after all his time with this organization isn't providing some feedback to Blashill about roster moves? You are so misinformed. I agree with some of your other comments and like I said he made some glaring mistakes but blaming him for everything that went wrong is ignorant and incorrect.

If blashill told holland he needed mantha in his lineup and actually used him he would of stayed ... Sure holland is the one who technically sent mantha down but that's because Blashill wasn't using him in the lineup

Thus Blashill's fault

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I don't understand why the GM is making these kinds of decisions. He's not coaching the team.

In the playoffs Holland would/should be way less involved but during the regular season he would have to be involved because of cap implications, roster size, roster restrictions, waivers etc...

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If blashill told holland he needed mantha in his lineup and actually used him he would of stayed ... Sure holland is the one who technically sent mantha down but that's because Blashill wasn't using him in the lineup

Thus Blashill's fault

You are so blinded by your hatred of a guy who coaches a hockey team you enjoy watching that if you tripped right now and fell on your face and Blashill was 1000 miles away from where you are you would find a way to blame him.

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Question ... how does changing lines and TOI actually work?? So often, we blame the coach for amount of time on the ice but what I understand is that players just jump on and off for shifts ... it's like they intuitively know when they go. I mean, I don't ever see coaches tapping on players shoulders to say 'you three are next'. Maybe during time outs, a coach can send guys out specifically for a play. So ... how does it really work?

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Question ... how does changing lines and TOI actually work?? So often, we blame the coach for amount of time on the ice but what I understand is that players just jump on and off for shifts ... it's like they intuitively know when they go. I mean, I don't ever see coaches tapping on players shoulders to say 'you three are next'. Maybe during time outs, a coach can send guys out specifically for a play. So ... how does it really work?

The coaches tell the players when they're up

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I dont blame Holland for sending down Mantha if Blashill was only going to play him for 1-5 min per game ala AA and Andersson. If someone is going to get 1min 30 seconds of ice time, it should be Andersson. I would rather Mantha be playing 20+ min a night in Grand Rapids.

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Question ... how does changing lines and TOI actually work?? So often, we blame the coach for amount of time on the ice but what I understand is that players just jump on and off for shifts ... it's like they intuitively know when they go. I mean, I don't ever see coaches tapping on players shoulders to say 'you three are next'. Maybe during time outs, a coach can send guys out specifically for a play. So ... how does it really work?

It's pretty simple. The coach calls the name of the line thats going out next, usually by the name of the center. So if you're RW on Zetterbergs line and you hear Blashill calling "Z" or "Zetterberg" you know its your turn. Then you wait for your "changing partner", in this case the RW currently on the ice. If he comes up for the change you go.

I'd give Blash some time. It was his first season, he made the playoffs. He also made a few questionable decisions, but I want to see him coaching another year before I decide if I hate him.

Edited by derblaueClaus

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If that's true, Blashill is useless and Z should lose the C. I don't think Zetterberg can make Smith a healthy scratch, though, so that's where it loses me a bit. If Blashill wanted Errorson to be a scratch , he would have been. Edited by Hack & Whack Rule!

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I read the initial story a few days ago. I did not know what to think of it except if it were true, Blashill should be fired, because no coach should let the players run the team, and Zetterberg should be traded or lose his captaincy, because anybody who wants Ericsson in the line-up over anyone is not fit to be Captain.

All hearsay, not much concrete to go on at this point.

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