Daily Faceoff’s Naftali Clinton reports that Frank Seravalli and Tyler Yaremchuk discuss a surprising topic in today’s podcast:
Tyler Yaremchuk: You think Derek Lalonde could be the first coach to lose his job?
Frank Seravalli: So I actually took that out of the final cut but I do think that Steve Yzerman for one is feeling a little bit of heat. This is year five of the Yzerplan, they need to take a step forward. I also think that he was pretty unhappy how last season played out and the comments Lalonde made when he was on TV for Sportsnet during the playoffs that the Lightning had to come out and refute.
I think he was probably not thrilled to be in that situation, not to make too big a deal out of that but its pretty rare to see second-year coaches end up getting the gas pipe. So I doubt that it happens, I wasn’t bold enough to put that in. But what’s really interesting about this is this year on the coaching front is that I don’t think there are many guys who enter the year on the hot seat, that it was kind of hard to pinpoint one in particular.
Continued; I do not think that Derek Lalonde is “on the hot seat.” I know that Steve Yzerman may have been frustrated by some of Lalonde’s remarks on Sportsnet, but that’s not grounds for dismissal.
