After waiting for 4 months from google to find out why none of my topics were posting I decided to wipe it clean and start anew. Maybe it had to do with the 90 or so posts I had saved as drafts that I was in the process of writing... who knows.
The more I think about the hiring of Quinn and Renney the more intrigued I am on how the heck it's going to work. Both guys have very different approaches on how to handle the bench and how they use their forwards.
Vic made a comment on LT's Pat Pending article, about how Quinn tends to be quite the throw back in that he typically runs his lines 1-2-3-4-1-2-3 (depending on penalties). You can really see that in both his players TOI and the shift charts from those seasons. You can basically scroll down the list and find out who played with who based on their ES TOI totals.
Renney seems to bit a bit more of a line matcher and more interested in doing things like throwing 2 centres out for an own-zone draw, and making sure he gets the right guys out there depending where the face-off is.
These are 2 unique styles of coaching coming together under the label of coach and co-coach. It will be interesting to see how it gets broken down in terms of who controls what aspect of the team.
If Quinn mans the forwards, I think we are in for a long year. Gagner and Cogliano have still been pretty sheltered up to this point, but the difficulty of their job is going to get much harder. They'll have a less skewed ratio of offensive/defensive zone draws (it will be heavier towards the defensive zone than it has been), and that might be well above what they are capable of right now.
I think we'll see some of the guys who usually do the grunt work have a pretty good year (Horcoff, Pisani-if healthy), but some other guys might have some problems with a drastically increased work load.
I think our best bet as Oiler fans is Renney running the forwards and Quinn running the blueline... or better yet Renney running them both and Quinn providing the motivation and leadership.
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The other thing about Quinn that isn't getting much type:
He coached the Canadian Team wit a very passive style in the Olympics. The media criticized the Canadian opponents for trapping against us (as if it were some form of cheating) but really, they should have been looking at the Canadian team as well.
The last full season that Quinn coached in he NHL, his Leafs played a hard trap from game 1 to game 82.
Prendergast was on the radio (I think it was JAG) shortly after the Smid signing.
He was asked about how the coaching would be run. KP said Renney would be running the D corps during the games. So it would appear Quinn will be running the forwards.
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