Comments for Scott Arniel - Fired! at http://hockey.dobbersports.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://hockey.dobbersports.com Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/19-nhl-deals/4273-scott-arniel-fired#comment-18779 [b]RE: Short term bounce theory[/b] I think it depends on how you look at it... If you look at it from a perspective of wins and losses then there's probably no effect after a coaching change. What a coaching change does do is that it brings new life to the dressing room, players now have a different leader in charge and it helps translate to changes on the ice. If it ends up for the better (Hitch) then players keep that momentum going, but if it's still status quo then that momentum quickly disappears and it's same old same old. So I think Dobber is right in a way that a coaching change does have short term impact, it whether or not it's sustained by the players... - Ryan Ma Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:44:22 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/19-nhl-deals/4273-scott-arniel-fired#comment-18775 The short term bounce theory is false. I did a study on every mid-season coaching change since the lockout a couple of years ago. The prevailing trend was that it took on average 10 games to generate a significant improvement under the new head coach. - steve laidlaw Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:01:01 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/19-nhl-deals/4273-scott-arniel-fired#comment-18774 Question whether the short-term bounce theory still holds true. Happened this season with St. Louis but not Anaheim, Carolina or Washington. - John H. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:18:53 +0100