Will Lindy Ruff win the Jack Adams Award?

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Puck decisions weren't very good.

You're playing a team that's battling as hard as a kin to stay in a playoff picture.

They won more battles.

I don't think that has anything to do with being sluggish.

That has a lot to do with willpower.

To get over the puck and make sure you win your battle.

And we didn't win enough of them.

It started the game and then you watched some of our puck play in the second period

that we just gave them opportunities.

The third period we got back to playing our game.

Lindy Ruff, the Sabers, lose in overtime to Boston.

Next up Detroit here tomorrow night at a much more well-appreciated start time of seven.

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TNT has to be like all sort of the bully and like, oh, we're going to 730.

What happened on TNT about Coach of the Year?

By the way, did I get from it?

I'm only going on secondhand information.

I saw some of their studio stuff, but not a lot and not this specific conversation.

I heard Jeremy and Joe on our morning show here on WGR today say that at some point,

whether it was, I don't know, it could have been pre-intermit.

Whatever, everyone knows when they're there.

I'm before and during and then after the game.

There was a discussion about Coach of the Year.

There was Darren Payne and Anson Carter.

Bisonat and Liam McHugh.

Bisonat, thank you.

Everyone said, or at least the former players all talked about John Cooper.

Their analysis was basically, I can't believe there's never won it.

How in the world does he never won it?

They all said that they would vote for him.

I think broadcasters are voting for that award.

They are broadcasters.

I don't know if they are broadcasters who are voting for the award,

but it would make sense if they are.

Unless it's maybe the broadcast teams from all 30, I don't know who it is.

It'd be a mix, probably.

Anyway, so I didn't see or hear it, but Jeremy Joe said that, you know,

they just sort of like matter exactly said.

It's going to be John Cooper, which, you know, I didn't like hearing.

I'll say three things.

One, you and I have a bet on Lindy.

So full disclosure, inherent bias.

I don't need Lindy rough to win.

I'd like to win $350.

Sure.

So that's out there.

That's one.

Two, I think, I mean, Tampa is probably the better team

and could still very well beat out the Sabers for first place.

In which case, you know, voting Lindy is tougher.

But of course, as we all know, the Sabers are coming from a darker place.

So you could still consider it a better coaching job.

Three is really, for me, I have to admit number one.

If instead of Lindy Roth, we're talking about the coach of the ducks or somebody,

which is, I have made fun of this award for at least 15 years.

For it almost always going to the King of PDO,

which is the King of your team had the best shooting percentage

and save percentage in the league, which is hardly at all about coaching.

It's mostly about luck.

You could have the very best players and the very best goalie

and lord over those stats and like, okay, but often it goes to teams

that that's inherent in the consideration for this award.

It's like, wow, I didn't expect that.

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And a lot of people in hockey don't even are sort of blind to.

Well, what you think you don't need to care about is luck because you're supposed to be better than that.

You think you're better than that.

You think you know the game so well that there probably isn't any luck in it for you.

And so that can't be anything.

All right.

Well, this team was supposed to have 75 points and it has 90.

There's your coach of the year.

And then they're fired in two years because they actually weren't that good in the first place.

There's always so far I can go with this Lindy Ruff case.

Because the sabers are a little bit that team.

They're good, but they're not like the kind of team where you can't deny anything about them.

They're winning like crazy.

A lot of these games are on the edge.

And yeah, sometimes you know like the last couple they lose.

We might not like hearing it all.

You know, when when Greg Wiesinski references the shooting percentage and the save percentage, which is what PDO is.

But it's true.

Like they are the goal saved above expected lion is among the league leaders.

And that's not something you would have seen coming.

So it's kind of like a bolt of lightning.

Sorry.

In into your team, you know, for a season in Luke and in has, you know, had a couple of games here that have hurt those numbers.

But he's been in the top 10 in that metric all year too.

Along with line.

So their tandem has been excellent at saving more goals than they should.

That's what that is.

So tell me how that has anything to do with coaching.

Right.

Maybe a little.

They're shooting percentage to me.

Like they're not a team that just shoots pucks to them.

They're not a pucks to the net team.

So they're selective.

And they are, they do have a good shooting percentage, but they're also selective.

And I think that that might, that might mitigate that being a fluke.

We'll see.

I guess maybe the playoffs will tell us whether or not, you know, last night, you know, I heard Paul this morning say, you know,

I had a couple of posts.

Well, yeah.

I mean, teams hit posts.

You know, like that's, that is puck luck to an extent, right?

I mean, a half an inch or whatever the other way.

And you've got a bar down and in on tux short handed try early in the game.

Same for Krebs.

But, you know, I can't, you can't, to me, go there.

Like if you're going to accept that there is some luck involved, like that's just, that's going to happen to you.

So the thing about the Cooper thing mostly to me is, I think when you don't have, there's not someone else presenting themselves.

As like one of the stories of the year in the league, which I think is what the sabers have been here easily, right?

If, if that isn't happening.

And so you're like, well, could I give it to the team that has the best record?

Colorado?

Or can look around and find a guy that's doing a good job, a division leading type team, which, you know, Tampa is close enough for this.

They still could win the division.

They still have two games in hand and are only three points back now.

Then I think you can get to like, yeah, you know, we should appreciate John Cooper and the job he's done all these years, because we don't have a better idea.

To me, Lindy is clearly whether it's a flawed process or not, because it does always go the way you're describing.

But that doesn't mean it shouldn't this year, right?

Just because John Cooper, like someone decided before the sabers got out that maybe it's time for John Cooper to win the Jack Adams.

That's not a good process either.

So, um...

Well, he might be, this is what I sort of get mad at.

And I don't even know if I'm, if I'm right here, if this is fair, but he's been around for so long, that's the point.

Canadian Olympic team, you know, maybe he's everybody's friend in the media, you know?

I don't know if Lindy isn't, but Cooper might have this sort of personality that he might have a machine working for him that gets the...

Why do we keep hearing this point?

It works on me. I like him. I've liked him for years.

It's, you know, news conferences, even during in-game interviews, like I feel like he's as personable as I had coach in any sport, really can be.

Good face, good name.

I think that helps.

Sure. Good face, good name.

Good team.

Good team, but good face, good name.

Uh, and by the way, the team that leads the NHL this year in PDO is Tampa Bay.

They're tops in shooting percentage, and close enough in save percentage, very close to the Sabers. Sabers are fifth.

All right.

But that's not fluky, because they have Vasilesky and...

Well, right.

And, and a great, you know, bunch of players.

Right.

At least more well-known players.

They really, it's Kudroff, largely.

I don't know who should win, really.

I mean, Ruff's a fine choice. Maybe Cooper is okay.

I don't know.

Is there a team?

There's not a team so down.

I mean, some of the teams in the Pacific Division are so low on this list, but even though they're in playoff positions, they don't have the points.

They're just sort of in playoff spots.

So I wouldn't want to do that.

We... I mean, I'm not sure if Sam Penny out of it is necessarily the authority on who wins the Jack Adams, but he did say a couple of weeks ago, it's one or the other.

Ruff or Cooper.

Yeah. I think I'd probably agree with that.

Tampa home to Seattle tonight.

Probably a pretty good favorite.

I would expect. I've not looked yet, but yeah.

They probably really healthy.

Red Sox, Red's coming up.

You got to be pumped.

Oh, yeah.

Half an hour.

Yeah, you asked me who's starting the opener, and I didn't even know.

That's how dialed in I am.

You would have gotten there.

No.

Shays your number one.

He's your opening day. Easily opening day guy.

Yeah.

Watching the meds today on what is this?

Peacock.

I guess.

It's on NBC.

The met pirate baseball opener is on NBC right now.

I miss that news.

Me too.

NBC getting back in the baseball places.

I'm here for it.

I'm sure.

Even though Fubo doesn't have NBC.

Why do I have Fubo?

Just for the sabers?

For the sabers.

How did I get trapped into that?

I don't know.

I can't watch the food network.

And I can't watch NBC programming.

I can't watch the Premier League.

There are like six things I like to watch.

Yeah.

And they have half of them at least.

I agree.

And I'm dead on all of it.

That's never changing.

And the.

I said why I wanted.

That's not there.

The video.

It's terrible.

The picture.

I have it only for the sabers games.

Right.

That aren't on TNT.

You know which picture looks the worst.

Like if I'm watching.

If I got hockey on three different things.

Right.

TNT, ESPN plus.

And.

And Fubo.

Guess where the worst picture is going to be.

Fubo.

A hundred times out of a hundred.

It's not even close.

I get it.

I get an Amazon prime feed on ESPN plus.

Like Monday night.

Canadian.

Special.

And it looks like.

I mean, it looks like it's fake.

It's so bright.

I can't even believe it.

And I'm watching this game on on a service that I hate.

The picture's terrible.

And the only reason I have the service is for that picture.

It's so worst.

Well.

Peacock is pretty.

Yes.

The video is.

Fantastic on.

The game's been something.

Paul Schienz didn't get out of the first inning.

Carson Bench.

Was on our show.

Well, not really.

He was mentioned.

On our show.

Earlier this week.

Has just homered in his major league debut.

So it's met over the pirates 10 years ago.

As just homered in his major league debut.

So it's met over the pirates 10 to 5 in the sixth.

This is not going to set the land speed record for a baseball game.

But that's okay.

Lots.

Lots has happened in this game.

10-5 met in the sixth.

I don't think we'll need the bottom of the ninth.

So that'll truncate the game a little bit.

It's trending that way.

Yeah.

It's like a nice, really nice day and a healthy crowd at Cityfield.

Oh my gosh.

It looks packed.

Where would you rather be than there right now?

I don't know.

I was jealous watching this game.

The set up.

The lineups introductions and everything.

I was, I made a note of it to mention.

I have never been to an opener.

A major league opener.

And I kind of wish I had done that.

And I think the Mets are as good a choice as anybody.

They kill it on opening day.

They have easily the best record in baseball in openers.

And when I was a Mets fan,

I was always a thing that I walked around knowing.

Like the Mets never lose the opener.

And so far that looks like that's going to happen today too.

Big lead on the pirates.

And it does look like it's a great day there.

Yeah.

Sonny.

Sal Capaccio coming up at four.

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