It's Been 72 Hours Since The Flyers Season Ended, Why Is Berube Still Here
With everyone getting excited about the Stanley Cup Playoffs starting tomorrow, Philadelphia Flyers fans are still over here with our junk in our hands just waiting for Ron Hextall to finally pull the plug on Chief Berube. I get the guy didn’t deserve to get fired immediately after the season ended and that he had his player exit interviews yesterday. But now we’re here today, a full 72 hours later, and for some reason so is he. I think it’s safe to say that Berube has coached his last game in Philadelphia, but I just hate waiting. Especially when nothing that has been done or said in the past 3 days has done anything besides make matters worse for Berube staying in Philly.
Yesterday, Vincent Lecavalier made it abundantly clear that either Berube goes or he goes. The two of them working together anymore is just not even an option.
Vinny hasn’t’ done anything during his time here that should really allow him to be dick swinging like this. He’s sucked since he’s been here in Philadelphia and everyone knows it, including him. But as I’ve mentioned before, he came to the Flyers to play for Peter Laviolette. One of the top coaches in the league. Then 3 games into his tenure here, Laviolette gets shit-canned and in comes Berube. You’d be pissed too. They’ve both been assholes this year but Berube has easily been the bigger, wider, more gaping asshole. So I’m all on board with giving Lecavalier a second opportunity here to see what he can do in another coach’s system. But he’s not the only player who has a rocky (to say the very least) relation with Berube.
Heading into the season, everyone wanted to see more offensive production out of Sean Couturier. Sure, he always gets stuck with some of the hardest defensive assignments, but the fans want more out of Coots. Myself included. But even I, just an idiot with a keyboard, realize it’s difficult to make drastic offensive developments when you’re starting all your shifts in the defensive zone. Apparently, Craig Berube doesn’t quite understand how there can be any problems with that.
Okay first off, saying “If Bergeron can do it than so can Coots” is essentially the same thing as saying if Alex Ovechkin can score 53 goals this season than so can Chris VandeVelde. Coots is a little closer to Bergy than VV is to Ovechkin, but you get the point. And as for the second quote, yes, he’s completely right. If Couturier ever wants to be the Selke kind of guy that everyone is hoping he will be, he has to learn how to produce starting in his own zone. But 37 points on a team that, for large portions of the season, played like complete dog shit isn’t really all too bad. Could be better, but at 22 years old I think there’s still another couple of years before you can completely close the book on Couturier’s game. It just doesn’t make sense for Berube to come down on the kid like this, and couple all of that in with his rocky relationship with Steve Mason and it’s basically a no brainer that this dude needs to get the hell out of the Flyers locker room. He’s completely incompetent and should probably take a year or 50 away from any and all ice rinks. Give me Babcock, give me Bylsma, give me Gordon Bombay, just give me anyone who isn’t Craig Berube. Also, don’t give me Tortorella either.
