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    Washington fires their coach

    anyone surprised? I am a little did't think it would be this soon

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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    Ovenchicken isn't getting it done and the coach is probably half the problem. Little surprised when I heard last night that he would be gone in a day or two though.
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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    there has been talk that this was going to happen in the DC area for a few weeks now. They lost 6-3 on Fri to the Rangers then 5-1 to us the following night. Giving up 11 goals in 2 games must have been the last straw.

    To make things worse, rumor is that Ovechkin was frustrated with Boudreau and had basically tuned him out. Seems like this one is on the players more than the coach, but you can't fire all the players and Ovie is only a year or two into a huge deal so they're stuck with him.

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    ovie has been playing like crap all year, and to be honest, he can stay that way... , least when we play the caps.
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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    Carolina's coach is gone too.

    Lindy should be panicking.

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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    haha, The Amerks took out Bruce Boudreau. Losing to a primarily AHL team was the last straw for Washington's owners I guess.
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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    A lot of teams lost to the amerks when we came out of lockout.

    this season is starting to look like that one, we will win more games and play better w/ 35+% of our starting lineup on IR again.

    Hopefully some players get a wake up call, after being shown up by their replacements.
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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    Quote Originally Posted by Cleve
    haha, The Amerks took out Bruce Boudreau. Losing to a primarily AHL team was the last straw for Washington's owners I guess.
    The ironic part is that the Caps probably would have won if our regulars had played instead of our Rochester guys.

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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    Quote Originally Posted by SkateZilla
    Carolina's coach is gone too.

    Lindy should be panicking.
    Lindy ain't going anywhere!" ~ Terry Pegula
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fitzpatrick'sbeard
    Lindy ain't going anywhere!" ~ Terry Pegula
    link?

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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    They'll never fire Lindy unless they finish in last place for 5 straight years.

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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    we came close to that about a decade ago

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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    Quote Originally Posted by OpIv37
    link?
    http://buffalo.ynn.com/content/all_n...-sabres-owner/
    Last edited by Fitzpatrick'sbeard; 11-28-2011 at 05:59 PM.

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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    Quote Originally Posted by Fitzpatrick'sbeard
    Wow, I'm dealing with a regular rocket surgeon here.

    That link is from February when Pegula first officially took over. Just because he said it back then- LAST season- doesn't mean anything about THIS season or anything in the future. People were wondering if Lindy would be forced out with Quinn and Golisano gone, and Pegula had to address it. All it meant was that Pegula intended on keeping Lindy through the ownership transition-nothing more.


    Now, the Sabres did just crush the Caps and have had a lot of injuries to deal with, so I would be shocked to see Lindy fired at this point. But if this skid continues into January and/or we miss the playoffs, Pegula damn well better at least consider firing Lindy to shake things up.

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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    technically every GM/Owner says that when they sign the contract, as its a contract and not a simple job offer sheet. But once a coach loses the players the GM/Owner has the right to terminate the contract (depending on the contract, payout the rest of the term or not).

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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    Ducks hire Boudreau as head coach, dump Carlyle

    "It didn't take Bruce Boudreau long to find another job.

    Boudreau was hired as the new head coach of the Anaheim Ducks late Wednesday, replacing Randy Carlyle, who coached the Ducks to their only Stanley Cup title. The announcement from the Ducks came less than an hour after Carlyle led the Ducks to a 4-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens..."



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    Re: Washington fires their coach

    I was surprised he got picked up soo quickly. It always amazes me how one team can fire someone for poor performance and another team scoops them right up

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