Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Succeeding legendary coaches
Poz talks about a few. Other than they are in the spotlight more, ?I don't know that they have any less success than expected. An interesting one is Scotty Bowman, who coached a dynasty in Montreal, only to be succeeded by coaches who would never coach again (*). But then he retired for good two decades later with Detroit, and was succeeded by top coach Mike Babcock.
(*) That's actually my criteria for a determining the quality of a coach. If you fire a coach who you gave his first job to, and he never lands a second job, then chances are, you should never have hired him for his first job. The Canadiens were prime examples of this rule post-Bowman, as were the Expos with Tom Runnells (who had their own longtime in-house candidate at the time in the much beloved Felipe Alou).
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