Laviolette says Goodbye, We have dug ourselves in a hole

Recently on 850 the Buzz, Peter Laviolette thanked the fans and community in his exit statement. It was really crushing because he was a great coach. After all he did lead us to a Stanley Cup in 2006. It was a very classy move by a very classy guy. If you would like to hear it go here. 

But look who we are stuck with now, Paul freakin Maurice, who owns both the tile of winningest coach in franchise history and losingest coach in franchise history. Sure, you can tell me he is a nice guy, but come on What the hell were you thinking JR? I still completely resent this move and hate thinking about it. This is the most WTF? moment we have ever done. I'm sorry but I don't want to crawl up and die in a hole when we only have 20 wins. 

Laviolette is Canned, Maurice named new head coach

TSN announced a new coaching change this morning. I'll just sum it up short. Maurice is back, back again, Maurice is back, Maurice is back, Maurice is back. After having a struggling start of 12-11-2, the Canes have replaced long-time coach with a coach that served an even longer term here. GM Jim Rutherford obviously did not want to miss the play-offs for a third straight season. Puck Daddy makes a good point by saying our offense has dropped from averaging about 3 goals a game last season to about 2.5 goals a game this season. One thing he also pointed out was Eric Staal only has two more points than Dennis Seidenberg.  “It wasn’t about [the players having] confidence in the coach or the system,” Said Rutherford “It was confidence in themselves.” 

With the hiring of Maurice, we have lost a good coach in Peter Laviolette. Its actually really strange this happened because Laviolette was hired to replace the fired Maurice. So far JR has been extremely criticized for this hiring but I don't think it is too bad. I criticize Rutherford myself because hiring Captain Mo may be the most freakin' torture the fans have ever felt or it may turn out to be one of the greatest moves our franchise has ever done. Maurice did after all seem to last here for 8 years and he led us to a Stanley Cup final appearance. Joining him on the bench will be the hall-of-famer Ron Francis. It is not sure how long these too will be in Carolina because currently they only have deals until the end of the season. Please leave your comments.