[WWP/Pagnotta] Todd McLellan may be shaking up the coaching staff in the offseason
April 25, 2025
[WWP/Pagnotta] Todd McLellan may be shaking up the coaching staff in the offseason
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I would hope so, given their abysmal, record-breaking, shit PK.
If they had an average PK, they make the playoffs.
Wouldn’t be shocking if he did…he had to kinda rush throw together a staff and blend it in with previous staff….would make sense he’d want to make some adjustments/clwar out more of previous staff.
To be expected and also thank God
I’ll take that.. along with a couple physical players
Just keep Tanguay around. Power play was lethal
My guess is it’s other staff and not necessarily Trent Yawney or Alex Tanguay. Yawney seems to go wherever McLean goes (even though the PK this year was abysmal), and Tanguay had a top 4 PP this season.
The way he speaks about Yawney I can’t see them firing him. As bad as the PK was, it was that way all year and he hasn’t had a full season to implement his systems.
Tanguay could be a surprise to me too. The 5 on 5 offense was bad but the PP1 was great. Was that personnel alone? The big drop off to the second group was undeniable so maybe he could get axed
I’m guessing this explains the delay in SY and McEllen end of year pressers.
Tanguay ran a phenomenal power play, Yawney is brand new to the team and is McLellan’s guy, who does that leave? the goalie coach?
Pretty surreal that this will be Larkin’s first offseason with a tenured coach…Blash and Lalonde both being first timers as head coaches.
Which players were on the PK the most. This has far more to do with the PK than the coaching. Justin Holl gone will make the PK improve immediatley
Now do pro scouting
Bye bye Westlund
This is the key ingredient the org was missing in the recipe for success under chef cap all along right?
Who, Westlund? It sure won’t be Yawney or Tanguay.
Is this why todd5/steve havent done any media
I’d be surprised by this. Tanguay has proven to be quite deft with the PP and Yawney has been a guy that Todd has worked with in 4 different organizations. He clearly values Yawney’s hockey mind. I’m not sure Scottie himself could do much with that defense.
Unless this “report” is not referring to assistants.
Can a stats guy/gal tell me how many killed PKs would have gotten us into the playoffs? What is the actual number?
Mid season HC hire makes coaching changes during offseason. I’m surprised /s.
“No changes” would have been newsworthy.
Keep Tanguay for the pp, I don’t give a shit if he nukes every other spot.
Hey, guys, there’s this thing called analytics. Might want to check it out.
It’s not Yawney. If I remember correctly McLellan more or less said that they’re a package deal. Unless Tanguay’s leaving for a HC position I don’t see it being him with how successful the PP’s been. My guess is Varady and Westlund to start with.
We are all trying to find the guy who did this
Yes please.
A hockey coach hired in the middle of a season, changing out personnel he did not hire? Gasp…zounds….let me get my fainting couch…
This should have been expected, McClellan brought his right hand man with him when he replaced Lalond but was not able to change out most of the staff due to the sheer chaos that would have caused.
I am sure he did a full analysis of who he had on staff throughout and at the end of the season, and will replace those that do not fit his system or that had failed to meet his expectations.
I am looking forward to a full season of McClellan and staff being able to get the young players like Kasper going and hopefully holding the vets and the rising stars to a high standard for their play on the ice.
That makes sense, because some of those guys weren’t *his* guys. They were still there from Lalonde.
Hopefully not Tanguay, though? He’s done very well.
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27 comments
I would hope so, given their abysmal, record-breaking, shit PK.
If they had an average PK, they make the playoffs.
Wouldn’t be shocking if he did…he had to kinda rush throw together a staff and blend it in with previous staff….would make sense he’d want to make some adjustments/clwar out more of previous staff.
To be expected and also thank God
I’ll take that.. along with a couple physical players
Just keep Tanguay around. Power play was lethal
My guess is it’s other staff and not necessarily Trent Yawney or Alex Tanguay. Yawney seems to go wherever McLean goes (even though the PK this year was abysmal), and Tanguay had a top 4 PP this season.
The way he speaks about Yawney I can’t see them firing him. As bad as the PK was, it was that way all year and he hasn’t had a full season to implement his systems.
Tanguay could be a surprise to me too. The 5 on 5 offense was bad but the PP1 was great. Was that personnel alone? The big drop off to the second group was undeniable so maybe he could get axed
I’m guessing this explains the delay in SY and McEllen end of year pressers.
Tanguay ran a phenomenal power play, Yawney is brand new to the team and is McLellan’s guy, who does that leave? the goalie coach?
Pretty surreal that this will be Larkin’s first offseason with a tenured coach…Blash and Lalonde both being first timers as head coaches.
Which players were on the PK the most. This has far more to do with the PK than the coaching. Justin Holl gone will make the PK improve immediatley
Now do pro scouting
Bye bye Westlund
This is the key ingredient the org was missing in the recipe for success under chef cap all along right?
Who, Westlund? It sure won’t be Yawney or Tanguay.
Is this why todd5/steve havent done any media
I’d be surprised by this. Tanguay has proven to be quite deft with the PP and Yawney has been a guy that Todd has worked with in 4 different organizations. He clearly values Yawney’s hockey mind. I’m not sure Scottie himself could do much with that defense.
Unless this “report” is not referring to assistants.
Can a stats guy/gal tell me how many killed PKs would have gotten us into the playoffs? What is the actual number?
Mid season HC hire makes coaching changes during offseason. I’m surprised /s.
“No changes” would have been newsworthy.
Keep Tanguay for the pp, I don’t give a shit if he nukes every other spot.
Hey, guys, there’s this thing called analytics. Might want to check it out.
It’s not Yawney. If I remember correctly McLellan more or less said that they’re a package deal. Unless Tanguay’s leaving for a HC position I don’t see it being him with how successful the PP’s been. My guess is Varady and Westlund to start with.
We are all trying to find the guy who did this
Yes please.
A hockey coach hired in the middle of a season, changing out personnel he did not hire? Gasp…zounds….let me get my fainting couch…
This should have been expected, McClellan brought his right hand man with him when he replaced Lalond but was not able to change out most of the staff due to the sheer chaos that would have caused.
I am sure he did a full analysis of who he had on staff throughout and at the end of the season, and will replace those that do not fit his system or that had failed to meet his expectations.
I am looking forward to a full season of McClellan and staff being able to get the young players like Kasper going and hopefully holding the vets and the rising stars to a high standard for their play on the ice.
That makes sense, because some of those guys weren’t *his* guys. They were still there from Lalonde.
Hopefully not Tanguay, though? He’s done very well.
Well jeez-es…I hope so.