Who will be this year's first coaching casualty?

[Dirty Dangles]

Not looking good for Mr. Maurice.

What do you mean? Other than his line combos and starting goalie suck balls and they have looked very disjointed in the first two games, why should he be worried? I mean, Lowry would obviously be on my top power play unit with all of the high threat players on that team, Perrault too!

[pmorrow]

Julien
Trotz
Vigneault
Bednar
DeBoer

[Luffy D Monkey]

Paul Maurice 100%

[The Black Panther]

Ya gotta think Maurice is target number 1.

I thought about Blashill....buttttttttt it's not like they have expectations this year. Plus I'm sure Stevie will want to bring in a coach when he comes this offseason

Caught it. While I think it's a real possibility that he returns sometime down the road you gotta think he's with TBay for a bit yet as they are Stanley cup contenders.
But the return does make sense.

[Jouko-Pouko]

I really hope Winnipeg stops wasting this opportunity they have.

Laine at $925k
Ehlers at $894k
Morrissey at $863k
Trouba at $2.8M

These guys are making a total of $5.5M. Next year, it might be around $17M. In two years, I'm guessing that number is somewhere around $24M. You don't get opportunities like this very often. If your coach can't get the job done, find someone else. It's really that simple.

[havanablast21]

Poor Maurice... the Rodney Dangerfield of NHL coaches.

But yeah... prob him. Sooner see AV go first though. Loved watching the Leafs toy with him last night. Blow out... nope... great moves AV, you’re team is back in it... wait what? ... nope... blow out.

[butch]

chevy and maurice both have new deals - idk much about wpg ownership and their patience level but I'd venture to say they've given gm-coach a long leash

[The Bottlenecker]

The chants for Hakstol's head in Philly just keep getting louder and louder. I'd be surprised if he isn't the first to go this season.
However, I surprised that we are this deep into the season and nobody has been let go yet.

[hawkdog]

Todd McLellan

[hockeyrobot]

Ben McAdoo for sure.

After that....definitely Hakstol on the hot seat. Blashill could go if someone else opens up.

[parky777]

Todd McLellan

if they’d blown their lead last night I think that would be a possibility...hard to believe that the Eberle trade and Matt Hendricks could suck so much talent from this team.

Phil Housley could be gone 1st. I wonder if Eichel doesn’t like him either...PP is not working. They expected to be better this year.

[MZac]

Haskol has to be the front runner. 10 games without a win. Housley a close second. I think McLellan makes it through the season.

[Godin]

A new candidate could be emerging. Guy Boucher. The Sens have lost 7 of their last 8 and are losing tonight. Karlsson no points in his last 9 games and is minus 11.

Probably isn't in danger quite yet, but if this keeps up, something will have to give.

[newfcollins]

A new candidate could be emerging. Guy Boucher. The Sens have lost 7 of their last 8 and are losing tonight. Karlsson no points in his last 9 games and is minus 11.

Probably isn't in danger quite yet, but if this keeps up, something will have to give.

That makes sense. The Sens like to get rid of coaches every couple of years on average.

[2014olympicgold]

It would take a terrible run (like media asking why Boucher hasn't been fired yet for a month) for Ottawa to pay Boucher to not coach for the team and a new coach. He's got this yr and next yr on his contract still.