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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 5:05 pm 
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The DP says the Avs are set to begin interviews.

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/18/co ... andidates/

According to this article the candidates are:

Jared Bednar, head coach of the Lake Erie Monsters

Lane Lambert, assistant coach in WSH

Scott Arniel, associate head coach with the Rangers (hmmmm)

Travis Green, head coach of the Utica Comets

No idea where Boughner's name went but speculation has it SJ didn't let him interview.

I'm guessing Bednar is the odds-on favorite due to his Columbus connections with former Jackets assistant GM Chris McFarland, who is now an assistant GM in Colorado. That, and he just won the AHL championship, that kinda helps. If Boughner was in the mix I can't help but think he'd be a lead candidate as well.

That's not a terrible list. I'm kinda wary of Arniel as he had a pretty disastrous stint as a head coach in the NHL (but of course it was Columbus so...) but he's the only guy with actual NHL head coaching experience. Either way this is simultaneously a plum job and a tough assignment. This team is young and there's plenty of talent, but at the same time this upcoming season will be a tough one and there are plenty of holes in the roster and prospect base yet to fill.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:59 am 
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Jared Bednar, head coach of the Lake Erie Monsters


My first reaction to seeing that name was did this guy http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdis ... ?pid=50539 change his name?

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My first reaction to seeing that name was did this guy http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdis ... ?pid=50539 change his name?


:lol: Yeah, my first thought was whether or not his name was pronounced "Bed-nash."

Many years ago my buddy Jeff wanted to use an EA NHL game to put together a line of Karel Pilar, Jaroslav Bednar, and Stanislav Neckar, and call it the "Kissmyar" line.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 6:08 pm 
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Bosc wrote:
My first reaction to seeing that name was did this guy http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdis ... ?pid=50539 change his name?


:lol: Yeah, my first thought was whether or not his name was pronounced "Bed-nash."



I had the same thought.

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Terry Frei tweets that former Avs player Brad Larsen is in the mix as well. Currently an assistant in, yes, Columbus.

Chris MacFarland sure seems to have earned quite a bit of influence in a short amount of time.


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Too lazy to post the links, but the Avs are reportedly set to name a new head coach at the end of the week. And contrary to some reports I read earlier, Bob Boughner and Kevin Dineen are the frontrunners. I'm hoping it's Boughner, but whatever...I just want this team to not suck anymore.


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Whoever this guy is.........

http://www.tsn.ca/avalanche-hire-bednar ... h-1.555141

Apparently he won the Calder cup with Eerie last year.

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Whoever this guy is.........

http://www.tsn.ca/avalanche-hire-bednar ... h-1.555141

Apparently he won the Calder cup with Eerie last year.


Yeah, right after they won it they rechristened the team the Cleveland Monsters, which doesn't sound nearly as cool as "Lake Erie Monsters." Did people seriously not know where the fuckin' team played? Obviously they did not play in or on top of Lake Erie. And they also had some fairly snazzy thirds that had CLEVELAND emblazoned on the front. I guess some people just need more guidance.

The last time the Avs hired a guy fresh of a Calder Cup win, he guided the Avs to the Stanley Cup about two years later. Hopefully history repeats itself.

The Avs have suffered from an extraordinarily insular culture under Pierre Lacroix. It was easy to ignore his blatant cronyism

This is a bit of a surprise. From what I read from both Ohio- and Denver-based reports it was coming down to Boughner or Dineen, both of whom have ties to Colorado, and Bednar wanted to stay in Cleveland (there's a joke in there somewhere but I won't go there). Looks like they managed to win him over, either with a strong pitch, $$$, or both.

So this will now be the Avs' third hire from Columbus. It started with AGM Chris McFarland and former Lake Erie, er, Cleveland assistant Nolan Pratt, and now they snagged Pratt's boss. Sakic is definitely not going with the same old-boys-club mentality that Lacroix had, though I'm not entirely sure getting a bunch of guys from the Columbus Blue Jackets organization is a surefire recipe for success.


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:56 pm 
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On a side note, longtime Devil postseason hero John Madden replaces Bednar in Lake Erie Cleveland.

http://bluejackets.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=891786

It'd be cool if he could hire Jay Pandolfo as an assistant.


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It's Adrian Dater writing for Woody Paige, so take it for what it's worth.

http://woodypaige.com/adrian-daters-hoc ... avalanche/


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I'll post links later, but continued speculation surrounds not just players Roy wanted in the organization but personnel as well. He reportedly pushed HARD for Benoit Groulx, only for the team to turn around and hire Nolan Pratt. It wasn't long after Pratt's hiring that Roy tendered his resignation.


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Roy answering questions at the World Cup.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/patr ... decisions/

Guess he's still getting paid by the Avs for this year so he's going to take some time off.


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Roy answering questions at the World Cup.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/patr ... decisions/

Guess he's still getting paid by the Avs for this year so he's going to take some time off.


Dude left so I doubt he's getting paid. Sounds like he has a year left but he wouldn't be getting paid for it.

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Bosc wrote:
Av-merican wrote:
Roy answering questions at the World Cup.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/patr ... decisions/

Guess he's still getting paid by the Avs for this year so he's going to take some time off.


Dude left so I doubt he's getting paid. Sounds like he has a year left but he wouldn't be getting paid for it.


I figured he wouldn't be but the way he mentioned it...could he have negotiated some sort of severance? Maybe he just doesn't want any sort of snafus to happen should someone hire him while he's technically still under contract.


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Avs players talk about the Roy departure.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/avalanche- ... 43644.html

Two quotes stand out:

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Johnson was a significant voice in the days after Roy quit, expressing dissatisfaction with the situation and saying that while “90 percent” of Avalanche players like Roy, there were 10 percent that were likely happy to see him go.

“That’s a pretty good number for a coach. You don’t have that in a lot of teams,” said Johnson, reflection on the comment.

“The core group of our team really liked him. But there’s only so much ice time to go around. You can’t make everybody happy. There are always guys that are going to feel slighted at the end of the day,” he continued. “As a person, we all really appreciated him. Respected him. He wanted us to be better players. A lot of coaches don’t take a lot of input, but he did … which, some might say, is good and bad. But we really liked him. We wish him well.”


Now everyone's wondering who the "10 percent" are. Iginla? Zach Redmond? Brandon Gormley?

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“It caught us off-guard. We knew he had just signed a new deal for two more years, and then he resigned a couple of weeks later,” said Varlamov. “I’m not going to lie. Patrick has been very helpful to me and to the whole team. I was in a good spot.”


That would be surprising if true. The general understanding is that this was the final year of Roy's deal. Someone on HF said it was a four-year deal with an option for a fifth. Perhaps Varly is confused.


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Dreger says there was a "heated exchange" before this year's draft.

http://www.todaysslapshot.com/nichols-n ... avalanche/

Also says the decision whether or not to pursue Alexander Radulov played a role as well.


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Maybe I'm reading a little too much into this but, uh...

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How much time did Bednar spend looking at tape of last season's games?

"It's a lot," he said. "We shoved the video aside once we had enough. Gone back a couple of times, looked at different scenarios. More power play, special teams, special situations. It's a lot. I've seen what I needed to see from last season, I'll put it that way.


http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?blogger_id=188


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Maybe I'm reading a little too much into this but, uh...

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How much time did Bednar spend looking at tape of last season's games?"It's a lot," he said. "We shoved the video aside once we had enough. Gone back a couple of times, looked at different scenarios. More power play, special teams, special situations. It's a lot. I've seen what I needed to see from last season, I'll put it that way.
http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?blogger_id=188
What exactly are you reading into? That perhaps he didn't really watch a lot of Av's games last year so doesn't know the personnel as well as he should in order to be hired as head coach at this stage? Or enough about the league in general?


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What exactly are you reading into? That perhaps he didn't really watch a lot of Av's games last year so doesn't know the personnel as well as he should in order to be hired as head coach at this stage? Or enough about the league in general?


I got the impression he didn't watch a lot because he thought what he saw was really bad.


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http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/13/jo ... erry-frei/

Not much to be added to the mix at this point, but it appears Sakic and Roy had met after last seasons abysmal finish and Sakic made it clear he wanted the team to start addressing the systemic issues that were keeping them dead last when it came to possession. Yet another thing Roy likely took issue with.

Players are really trying to be careful what they say but so far they're very much on-board with Bednar and his system. And what's more, it's interesting to note that both Jared Bednar and Eric Veilleux, head coach of the Avs' AHL affiliate in San Antonio, are implementing the same system. That was definitely NOT the case last year with Roy and Dean Chynoweth.


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