I, and the rest of the wonderful staff here at On The Forecheck, have been rolling non-stop for the past 36 hours. Today alone, we put together a roundtable discussion on Laviolette’s firing, only for John Hynes to be named head coach about 45 minutes later. We covered both of David Poile’s press conferences, cranked out some incredible stories and analysis on the changes, and just when we had a moment to breathe, we all came to a realization...
“Oh yeah...there’s a game tonight.”
Even though this was Hynes’s debut with the Preds, we knew going in his fingerprints weren’t going to be on this game (he wasn’t even here for the morning skate, after all).