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Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Oooh, that didn't take very long at all. :( Lindy Ruff will not be returning to the Stars.

https://www.nhl.com/stars/news/dallas-stars-announce-lindy-ruff-will-not-return-as-head-coach-for-2017-18-season/c-288605456

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Welp!

Weren't the Stars pretty okay for a couple of years before this? Was the problem this year coaching?

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
DA Part of the problem was injuries this year, but I definitely think coaching was also an issue. The special teams have been dogshit since last season but then we were outscoring the problems so if they don't also fire Curt Fraser, I'm gonna be pissed.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
AYRT

Their problem this year was that they were a clusterfuck of injuries and bad defense, but the coaching didn't help. He's made some seriously questionable choices (Cody Eakin First Line Centre, anyone?) and didn't manage to fix any of the obvious problems. We also have a terrible, terrible power play. Like, worst in the league terrible.

I actually don't think Ruff is a bad coach, but his contract was up this summer anyway so it was a question of renewing it, and this season didn't play out in a way that suggested he deserved to be renewed. But here's hoping the sweep extends to special teams because those coaches have GOT TO GO.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Side note, but I wonder if that means there's a chance Val Nichushkin is coming back now.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Not surprised since Ruff's contract is up and a change after this awful season might be good.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Honestly, I hope there is some movement with Nill. He doesn't have to go, but he has to do something. Not very fond of Ruff's coaching this year, but he was impacted for sure by the lack of anything done over the summer to address the Stars weaknesses last season-and that to me is more on Nill.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
Some of his summer moves were bad, especially in regards to the defense and giving up Sceviour, but the team looked very different in October than they expected it to. The loss of Hemsky and Janmark was a serious blow, Seguin had the World Cup injury he still wasn't fully recovered from, and Jamie wasn't firing on all cylinders, either. Klingberg's early season melt down didn't help any. The team never recovered from the terrible start.

There's plenty of blame to go around, but there was also a lot of bad luck. The only good luck was Hudler's virus not spreading.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
We'll never figure out what that mystery virus was.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? - Playoffs, Here We Come

From: (Anonymous)
I, for one, am open to all possible cracky explanations.