2018 USA Olympic Women's Hockey Team

[Timothy A]

Re: 2018 USA Olympic Women's Hockey Team

I'm fine with not having the Stone "experience"...

In hindsight, yeah she sucked. But she has more experience that Stauber.

[D2D]

Re: 2018 USA Olympic Women's Hockey Team

In hindsight, yeah she sucked. But she has more experience that Stauber.

All coaches have to coach some games to gain experience. Apparently USA hockey thought Stauber had enough experience and was the best candidate for the job. Hope they were right...

[ne7minder]

That's been tried.

So they of course won Olympic gold

[shelfit]

All coaches have to coach some games to gain experience. Apparently USA hockey thought Stauber had enough experience and was the best candidate for the job. Hope they were right...

As long as he wins Gold. Nothing else will be good enough. Even getting the Silver will mean he was the wrong choice.

[ARM]

Re: 2018 USA Olympic Women's Hockey Team

Is Stauber's resume any worse than Schuler's resume? It would seem like one country is going to win gold despite any coaching resume deficiencies.

[Eeyore]

Re: 2018 USA Olympic Women's Hockey Team

It's funny. Eight months ago, everyone thought Stauber was great.

[ne7minder]

Re: 2018 USA Olympic Women's Hockey Team

It's funny. Eight months ago, everyone thought Stauber was great.

Not to Tim, Coach Stauber was never good enough & his main complaint was his having been a Gopher

[Timothy A]

Re: 2018 USA Olympic Women's Hockey Team

It's funny. Eight months ago, everyone thought Stauber was great.

Not me. I was critical of his experience from the start. Where he went to school is not a factor.

[shelfit]

Not me. I was critical of his experience from the start. Where he went to school is not a factor.

I was also critical of him from the beginning. Still feel the same way. Only capturing Gold will change that, maybe. Any former goalies ever turned into top level coaches? I can't think of any. Maybe some of you can.

[Blackbeard]

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Any former goalies ever turned into top level coaches? I can't think of any. Maybe some of you can.

Patrick Roy.

[Puckdrop14]

Patrick Roy.

Gerry Cheevers, Emile Francis, Eddie Johnston and Roger Crozier. Not many in the new era of the NHL.

[pokechecker]

Re: 2018 USA Olympic Women's Hockey Team

the most legendary HS coach in MN boys hockey

It's funny. Eight months ago, everyone thought Stauber was great.

he was only named coach May 1 and I must have missed all the Stauber love here, because most have been critical of the choice, in fact I don't recall anyone saying it was a good choice

when your D doesn't know which direction their goal is and *star* players play like they don't want to wrinkle their uniforms, maybe it is a coaching problem

[brokentwig]

Re: 2018 USA Olympic Women's Hockey Team

The only mistake I see with Stauber is having so many old veterans back on this team. Some of these gals have been around too long and are past their prime. Being on this team was a way to make more money than the pro team they are on. We need the new blood with the fresh legs who will listen to the coach.

[shelfit]

Patrick Roy.

Lol, what a terrible example!

[shelfit]

Gerry Cheevers, Emile Francis, Eddie Johnston and Roger Crozier. Not many in the new era of the NHL.

Better examples, although very outdated, so it's clear that very few goalies become top level coaches.

With so many Golds for the various US teams in non-Olympic events over the years but choking at each Olympics since '98, only Gold at the upcoming Olympics will be acceptable. I feel there is actually more pressure on Team USA to win this time than there is on Team Canada. Most Canadians feel their team is big and slow compared to Team USA, and poorly coached, so I think their expectations are lower than ever before.