NHL head coaches get fired too often. A major league team is a complex organism with a lot of moving parts, and a coach can be fired for any number of problems that aren’t really his fault.
Having said that, there are at least three coaches around the league for whom the clock should be ticking.
That number may seem small, but in a lot of cases, firing the coach is a move with no discernible payoff. Peter Tanner of FiveThirtyEight demonstrated this convincingly in 2014 when he found that on average teams that kept their existing coach in the summer improved or declined the following year by the same rate as teams that hired a new one.
Additionally, many bad teams have burned through coaches in quick succession, doing themselves more harm than good in the process.
When a new coach comes in, the existing problems with the roster remain, but now the new guy has to start from scratch learning all the lessons the old guy had already absorbed. Likewise, the team now has to adapt to the demands of their new bench boss.
Nevertheless, sometimes a move is necessary. In these three cases, we ...
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NHL Coaches Who Should Be on the Hot Seat
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