On an emergency episode of the “Up In The Blue Seats” podcast with Mollie Walker, Jake Brown and Larry Brooks, they open the show reacting to the Rangers firing head coach Gerard Gallant. They discuss how the firing happened, the search for a new coach, potential replacements, the disappointing season and Chris Drury’s difficult offseason ahead.
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Let’s just say it James Dolan organizations are a cluster fire. A series of hires overrated situations followed by emotional firings repeat. The way in New York is structured and how powerful that man is nobody in the main stream has the gall to say it.
Something went wrong . You don’t fire a coach after two years with the record he had period!
I think Dru and the Organization definitely would have considered keeping Gallant if didn’t get so heated/defensive in the close out interviews. He probably could have handled it a little more professionally – just by the way he answered questions about his job security it seemed if anything he was insecure about it. Could have just said – I’ll stand by my record and see why the team has planned/as of now I’m still the head coach of the team – I think the organization would have considered different assistant coaches as an option to cover in his coaching deficiencies….just my two cents
LGR
Contending is good but this team hasn’t won a cup in 29 years an his not all his fault I understand that an all but you have a bunch of players with long contracts so he had to get them rolling Drury should watch out about his job as well
They remind me of the first two years with Eli and Coughlin. It could have gone either way after Year 2 and the Giants decided (really against Ernie Accorsi's wishes) to reinforce the culture around the head coach and QB and boldly get away from catering to a lot of other players, and it's absolutely the reason they won championships. The Rangers have decided to get rid of the only adult in their locker room based on what I saw in the last 5 games of that series, and are instead catering to a talented roster that now knows it can simply check out and get a coach fired if they don't like him. Losing Gallant and giving Drury yet ANOTHER chance to hire a head coach without much scrutiny on himself, the Rangers are gambling that they have all the right guys in their locker room. I think they're going to find out the hard way what the real problem was next year and beyond. Firing Gallant as a reactionary device is likely to set this franchise back several years.
This was a mistake Dury panicked who's up next. The mix of players was not right Back to finesse players limited Contact Last year they banged they ran you out of the building This year the devils were fast and made the Rangers look slow
One of the best coaches in the league….easily. He'll take another team to the CF someday.