Kelly McCrimmon

It's a hard job being an NHL head coach.

There's a lot of pressure.

There's pressure from media.

There's pressure from management, from ownership that comes into play.

And I think that, you know, eventually when you push as hard as you have to push to be successful, sometimes it wears on players.

And that's where you get to...

The point where some of that passion and enthusiasm that you need to be successful starts to waver a bit.

And I'm making that as a blanket statement, not necessarily per se to our own situation that we're just going through.

But when you ask the question sort of overall, yeah, when you look at the longest tenured coaches, it's a list that's got some names on it that you wouldn't expect based on them not being in their teams very long.

Well, you're asking a good question.

I think you need to be careful, you know, making the association that the goaltending is completely the reason that our team is playing like we're playing.

It's part of it, right?

And it's really...

It's been an interesting year with our goaltending.

I've said a few times, I don't love our goaltending, but I like our goaltenders.

I think they need to be better.

Aiden's won a Stanley Cup.

He's a proven NHL player.

I know that he can do it because I've seen him do it.

Carter Hart, who made a really good impression in a short period of time, has been out of the lineup now for three months.