New coaching candidate - enter Dave Tippet

by Kent Wilson on Jun 10, 2009 3:19 PM PDT Comment 14 comments

The Stars announced the axing of Dave Tippett today. The Erstwhile Dallas coach guided the Stars to a number of impressive finishes over the years before last season's debacle.

I've never taken too much time or effort to scrutinize his coaching style, but I know two things about the Tippett:

1.) Dallas was always, ALWAYS a challenge for the Flames whenever the two teams clashed.

2.) The recent 12th place finish probably wasn't his fault.

The stars as a club took a lot of hits last year from the cruel hand (fist?) of fate. Firstly, they were decimated by injury. Brendan Morrow, Brad Richards, Jere Lehtinen, Sergei Zubov and Steve Ott all missed huge chunks of time. Secondly, Marty Turco was awful. His overall SV% of .898 was good for 42nd in the league (marginally worse than Peter Budaj and Jose Theodore). His 5-on-5 SV% was the same (.898) according to Desjardins; several ticks below his expected SV% of .906. Put those two things together and it's remarkable they won any games at all.

Tippett finished in Dallas with a record of 271-156-28-65. That's 115 games over .500 and it includes last year. If, for whatever reason Brent Sutter does end up behind the Flames bench, I'd have no problem with Tippett getting the job.

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I was waiting for you to post this...

…so I could say “Agreed”

by maimster on Jun 10, 2009 3:50 PM PDT reply actions

If you take Darryl Sutter at face value, he was most unhappy with the defensive play of the Flames the past 2 years. I’d think Dave Tippett would be the sort of coach who’s philosophy would meld with that outlook. He’s a good coach. If he ends up in Cowtown, the Flames will be OK on that front at least.

by Robert Cleave on Jun 10, 2009 4:30 PM PDT reply actions

But can he make Kipper good again? Can he?!

by Subversive on Jun 10, 2009 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions

heh, poor tippet, from one bad goalie situation to another

by shep_ on Jun 11, 2009 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions

Whoever the Flames pick, at least it won’t be Crow. Double win, I’d say. Dallas might get healthy and end up better, but I doubt he’s any sort of long term answer for the Stars. Second, and possibly more important, he’s off my teevee.

by Robert Cleave on Jun 11, 2009 7:44 AM PDT reply actions

The Neiuwendyk era begins by with a Tippett firing and a Crawford hiring? Yiiiikkkes. Bad time to be a Stars fan.

This off-season is getting real interesting.

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by Kent Wilson on Jun 11, 2009 8:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Given the disaster the Avs are, we’re probably looking at a 13 team Western conference next year. Anything that makes our opponents implode is a good thing.

by Resolute on Jun 11, 2009 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Agreed.

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by Kent Wilson on Jun 11, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions

I was about to disagree owing to “lack of playoff success” but that conference final appearance last year, with that team, kind of cancels that out. Agreed, excellent coach. Though the Flames would play a much, much more boring game with him behind the bench, I think.

by duncan on Jun 11, 2009 8:32 AM PDT reply actions

Duncan, if Darryl Sutter takes over I’m not sure there will be any firewagon stuff. His ‘04 and ’06 teams didn’t exactly cheat for offence.

by Robert Cleave on Jun 11, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions

Winning in the playoffs

is always exciting.

by CalTach on Jun 11, 2009 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Joe and Stars off to a bad start

Tippett vs Crawford coaching records against each other:

13-3-4 (Tippett’s lead)

Consider most recent 6 seasons
Wins: Tippett = 55%. Crawford = 47%
Playoffs: Tippett=5 of 6 Crawford=2 of 6

Could someone please tell me why Joe picked an unethical, ungracious, unwinning replacement for a highly ethical, gracious, winning coach?

Why not fire Hull (I like Les) and the others behind recruiting, and give the coach better material?

It seems obvious that we had a great coach and we had and have a very weak set of GMs.

Lot’s of luck Tip. Somebody is going to be very fortunate.

I wish it were Big D.

by Stars1Fan on Jun 14, 2009 2:04 PM PDT reply actions

Wish I had answers for you Stars Fan. I don’t. Firing Tippett in the first place didn’t make sense to me, let alone replacing him with Crawford.

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by Kent Wilson on Jun 14, 2009 6:46 PM PDT up reply actions

I’m also quite surprised by this whole situation…I thought bringing Joe in was a good move at first but he turned that around pretty quickly. Maybe he knows something we don’t.

-Colin

by Colin S on Jun 14, 2009 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions

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