Nhl news today – Ottawa senators fire head coach dj smith and I think you’ll be surprised who joins the coaching staff. You could sense this move coming but the timing is definitely strange coming off another ottawa senators highlights loss vs vegas. Excited to see daniel alfredsson as a coach and jacques martin since we haven’t seen him as a head coach since montreal canadiens . Subscribe for recaps of nhl highlights 2023 , reactions , nhl news and trade rumours, mic’d up and funny moments on-ice and more. Nhl hockey 2023
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As a die hard sens fan
Nothing you said was wrong
Just think of the talent that has run thru that team over the last decade. So dysfunctional.
Sign o the times . It doesn't matter who's coaching if the players can't work together.
It's terrible timing but it had to be done and should have been done, as you say 5 weeks ago. The thing is, the fans are done. They are angry and the players and the new owners were starting to relieve the Stamk of the Mellner Era. They are in a mini rebuild now. I hope the players get benched and some traded. It is time to stop the monkeys from runnng the zoo.
Better late than never, I suppose. I definitely wasn't surprised when it finally happened.
He won't be out of coaching for long
Cool to see Jacques behind the Sens bench again—it’s like I’m reliving a part of my childhood with him back there a second time! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Everything I used to read and hear pointed towards Melnyk’s frugality and penny pinching for the Sens poor performance but now that he’s gone and there’s a new regime that crutch has become moot!
Ramping up Alfie for coach.
The new NHL way.
1. Pay your players way too much for individual accomplishments without winning(or defensive play in most cases)
2. Hire a new coach before you even fire his predecessor.
3. Wonder why your team doesn't get any better. 😂
I think they were opposed to doing this, so the timing is more based on the especially poor quality of play over the last few games. The wheels really came off the wagon on this road trip.
Patrick Roy incoming
Martin is 71 years old!
Poor Giroux. They need to send him back to Philly he’s got a better chance at winning a cup there than Ottawa. Flyers should’ve never traded him anyway then again they have Owen Tippett now which is a godsend. I know I know Totally besides the point of this video. Just feel bad for Claude. Fuck the coaches could care less
This news is awesome but I agree the timing is off
as a sens fan i'm over the moon
Not bashing on Jaques Martin, but I am surprised they didn't flip the idea and have Daniel Alfredsson head coach. But that's more likely because Martin has decades of experience in back bench rolls in different levels and Alfie is comparably green at coach. But I'm also wondering if Daniel is going to be mentored and groomed to become the head coach if not late in the season or for next year's run.
sounds like an old boy's club, bring back hamburgler and complete the hat trick
Sens are a better than their record shows. They have the talent so it's got to be the system isn't working. they should be in the hunt for a wild card, not where they are right now. This is coming from a leafs fan.
Sens hater troll account. This guy is a clown
Atp there not getting into the playoffs just go on a run and get a good draft pick
Many Senator fans knew this was a make or break road trip for DJ, and for the team to fall as flat as they did the first three games, it pretty much forced Staois's hand to replace DJ.
I am excited to see if Martin can give this team some structure. He's defensive minded, and doesn't cater to star players. One of things that got him fired the first time around was scratching a 20 year old Jason Spezza in the playoffs because he wasn't defensively reliable. It will be interesting to see how he treats players like Batherson and Stutzle as intern
At least there’s hope for Senator fans, you can’t trust a playoff predictor called ineffective math…
Their whole team, is full of young, immature, cocky, goons, and assholes, and led by their turdhead captain. That's the problem. No coach will fix that.