Hiring a new head coach

jbaxter · 10-20-2016, 11:27 AM

I fired Michel Therrien, as well I should have, and discovered that my only options for decent coaches were all long-ago dead. Obviously, this is silly.

As with players coming up, coaches in the minors and junior leagues should develop as well. Career won-loss records are an important measure, as are championships. This would be helpful in determining who to hire.

Of course, we should also be able to promote from within and have the coach grow into the job relatively quickly. It doesn't take a rookie coach more than a year or two to become very well established, and they're usually fired (in the NHL) by year 4. Then they start their next job with the experience from the last one. You may be doing this, but it happens far too slowly.

Case in point, it's silly that Claude Julien and Todd McLelland are both considered "very inexperienced" and "still inexperienced". They both have more than 10 years of NHL coaching experience. I suspect these are not the only examples.

yippykiyey · 10-20-2016, 11:42 AM

haha I just posted something of the same about the dead coaches.

JeffR · 10-20-2016, 03:36 PM

Yeah, I added the old guys last month so they'd be in the leaderboards, but the editor apparently didn't save the "retired" flag properly. And then I re-set them all last week...and it didn't save again. It'll be fixed before the release.

10-20-2016, 11:27 AM	#1
jbaxter Minors (Double A) Join Date: Oct 2016 Posts: 102	Hiring a new head coach I fired Michel Therrien, as well I should have, and discovered that my only options for decent coaches were all long-ago dead. Obviously, this is silly. As with players coming up, coaches in the minors and junior leagues should develop as well. Career won-loss records are an important measure, as are championships. This would be helpful in determining who to hire. Of course, we should also be able to promote from within and have the coach grow into the job relatively quickly. It doesn't take a rookie coach more than a year or two to become very well established, and they're usually fired (in the NHL) by year 4. Then they start their next job with the experience from the last one. You may be doing this, but it happens far too slowly. Case in point, it's silly that Claude Julien and Todd McLelland are both considered "very inexperienced" and "still inexperienced". They both have more than 10 years of NHL coaching experience. I suspect these are not the only examples. Attached Images Last edited by jbaxter; 10-20-2016 at 11:50 AM.

10-20-2016, 11:42 AM	#2
yippykiyey Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2016 Posts: 6	haha I just posted something of the same about the dead coaches.

10-20-2016, 03:36 PM	#3
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 16,625	Yeah, I added the old guys last month so they'd be in the leaderboards, but the editor apparently didn't save the "retired" flag properly. And then I re-set them all last week...and it didn't save again. It'll be fixed before the release.