Bob Stauffer, Edmonton Oilers radio analyst, joined Shan, RJ, and Bobby to provide in-depth insight on the Dallas Stars’ potential new head coach, Glen Gulutzan. While it’s not official yet, Stauffer called it the worst-kept secret in hockey, as all signs point to Gulutzan becoming the next head coach. He discussed the coaching dynamic between Pete DeBoer and Gulutzan and explained why Gulutzan would be a better fit for today’s NHL player and a strong hire for Dallas.
00:00Bob, you know, we were just talking about how, you know, maybe some of the prickling nature to Pete DeBoer got him in trouble here.
00:22And, you know, some of this handling of just comments about whether it be, you know, their play style or the way he handled the otter situation.
00:29And then talked about it afterwards in terms of those sort of things, the little abrasive nature and some of those issues with the media.
00:37Are those kind of things not going to be an issue you're confident with Glenn Gullitson or see somebody who also maybe has a little bit of an edge to him and can handle players that way?
00:45Well, it's funny, right? Like I'm and maybe it's because I like I spent eight years as an SID at a Canadian university.
00:53I had a message to anybody that's coaching right now. If you think breaking players down and building them up is the way to coach.
00:59You should get out of coaching. Yeah, it's just you wouldn't like you wouldn't let anybody do that to your kids.
01:06You'd have a call. You take them for a little walk and have a little conversation.
01:09If you saw somebody trying to break your kids down and build them up.
01:12No, that's that's not how you get the most out of people. I'm not saying that's what the board did.
01:16I'm just saying that today's athletes different.
01:19The key to success, in my opinion, to dealing with today's athlete is to treat them with respect and dignity from the beginning of a relationship.
01:26And when you do that, you engender passion from them and then they don't want to they don't want to fail you because you've treated them the right way right from the beginning.
01:36And I have 100 percent complete confidence that Glenn Galtz would go into Dallas and do that because, frankly, I mean, he's he's got about as close a relationship as a coach can have with two of the best players in the world.
01:50Conor McDavid and Leon Dreisaitl, you know, so, you know, you know, he spent seven years with them through five head coaches.
01:57So, yeah, he's he to me is today's coach in terms some might say, well, maybe you got to be a little a little bit tougher at times, but on a day to day basis, you know, I think I think you've got to make sure that you have a real positive relationship with people to get the most out of them.
