How will next year be better?
by El Kabong (2024-11-16 21:45:34)

It's one thing when there's a coaching change and someone new comes in and there's a cleansing of the palate.

But Sheahan is already on this staff. If the players are tuning Jackson out, what makes anyone think they won't tune out an assistant who gets promoted to the head coaching position?


Sheahan's teams in the USHL scored. 1st in the league
by wearendhockey  (2024-11-17 10:44:47)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

twice and 2nd once in his 3 seasons as a head coach. His lone year leading the AHL Chicago team they were in the top 3rd in scoring. From what I gathered he coached an offensive style that involved all 5 guys on the ice aggressively looking to generate offense, forecheck and possess the puck, all the things teams who can figure out how to score enough goals to win a game do. Even Jackson's best teams tended to wait until a good forecheck was established to make sure to aggressively involve 5 skaters in offense.

I don't know that players are tuning Jackson out. I do know his brand of coaching and the players he preferred over the last number of seasons won't win. I also don't know squat about recruiting but I do know the recent change to allow major junior players into the NCAA will present a shift in recruiting. How big a shift is yet to be seen. Some think it will be seismic. So maybe Sheanah will be successful in bringing some more offensive capabilities to Notre Dame.

I just wish Jackson would have stepped aside after last year instead of a year of wondering what the staff will look like, and at the same time knowing it will be quite different. I doubt very highly either Slaggert or Pooley will be back and absolutely don't want to see Pooley remain. I do know the further this program gets from 2018 (the last year we saw a top level team getting almost all out the season they could -- the loss in the final game was really the biggest missed opportunity in Jackson's entire head coaching career) the harder it will be for any coach to re-ignite what Jackson started here almost 20 years ago.


Hopefully he brings new offensive philosophy and with it an
by zahm82  (2024-11-16 22:30:08)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

improvement in recruiting