[NHL] Andrew Brunette a finalist for the Jack Adams award
Rick Bowness, Andrew Brunette and Rick Tocchet are the three finalists for the 2023-24 Jack Adams Award.
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by ScrewOff_
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hide your golf carts
Contrary to the inevitable “we should have kept Brunette” comments, I don’t believe he deserved a promotion after putting himself in the position of getting arrested for DUI while on a work trip.
Good for Saros. I mean Bruno
Incoming sub meltdown in 3….2….1….
22-23 was such an anomaly that it’s hard to pin on one thing. Team was healthier, bottom 6 was solid, better goaltending…there’s inevitably too many factors to say Bruno was the key. I do think he should’ve gotten the job just to be rid of Lindy but we’ll never know for sure if he really was the difference
That said, this scenario will haunt us forever if we don’t get the next coach right
Good for Jusse Saros. Happy for him.
Lindy Ruff won it in 06
Saros wasn’t a world beater this season…
He wasn’t even top 20 in save percentage (min 25 gms), so some of these comments on here to try to discredit Brunette are just stupid.
https://www.statmuse.com/nhl/ask/which-nhl-goalie-has-the-best-save-percentage-of-2024
He had a negative expected goals saved rate (69th in league). The two other Preds goalies had positive rates.
(Filter for regular season)
https://moneypuck.com/goalies.htm
Two of his worst months came at the end of the season while the team was performing
https://www.statmuse.com/nhl/ask/jusse-saros-save-percentage-by-month
Man who cares
If only screwoff would do so.
Everyone does better when they leave the devils
Well deserved.
The histrionic certainty that both sides have on this debate is amusing. Luckily, it doesn’t really matter what the fans arbitrarily decide without enough information. It’s up to Fitz, the man who actually knows Brunette personally, to judge what kind of influence he’d have been on our team.
He wasn’t going to be head coach here anyway. Good for him.