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Senators - Reaction to the Hiring of Travis Green as Head Coach
In this episode of The Hockey Writers Senators Roundtable, Ottawa Senators writers Jacob Billington and Paul Quinney get together to react to Travis Green being hired as head coach.
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What were your initial thoughts on the hiring
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I mean, I guess at a high level, my first reaction was, what, who, what
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Travis Green. I mean, he wasn't even on my radar screen. I wrote an article back a couple of months ago
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listed five candidates who I thought could be considered. And so Green came out of left field
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You know, I was talking Beirut Bay, like others were, and McClellan and Claude Julien
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So this was a surprise. It's not going over that well on social media here in Ottawa, that's for sure
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I think the feeling is that among Ottawa fans was, it would have been nice to get someone
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with more pedigree, but. Yeah, I agree, but I actually have a stat here
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I'm gonna bring up, but you're right. The initial reaction from a lot of Senators fans
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and people on social media is incredibly negative and they're not happy about it
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Obviously he didn't have a great tenure with the Canucks, but they liked him in Vancouver
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It just wasn't working out. So a lot of people are saying
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and I was talking to Matthew about this yesterday, that he's a players coach
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He'll stand up for his players. The players like him. But on the other side of that
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he's gonna demand the absolute most out of all of his players which is something that Ottawa needs
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He's notorious for having incredibly difficult training camps and bag skates and all these things that help players
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kind of with their integrity and make them work harder. I forget the wording you just said
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but they were hoping for somebody with a little bit more pedigree. Out of all of the Senators coaches that they've hired
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where does Green rank, do you know, in previous games played or previous games coached
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I can't rank them, but just reading that, I think he coached, I'm gonna say 135, 133
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335. 335. 335 games as a head coach in the NHL. And based on all of the head coaches that Ottawa has hired
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he is ranked third in career games coached before coming to Ottawa
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So before coming to Ottawa, Brian Murray had over 1,000 and Hertzberg had 443 and Green is next with 335
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And they have Cluston, McLean, Cameron, and Smith with zero games before coming to Ottawa
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So they got somebody with a bit more pedigree than they're used to hiring, which is good
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But you're right, when you look at the names that were in the mix, like Berube or Todd McClellan
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or even if you think of Jay Woodcroft, or even some of these guys
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that nobody was really thinking of, they all have much more pedigree than Travis Green
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But I do think that this could end up being a pretty good hiring
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