One thing with the Sutter hire is that outside of Calgary Puck (maybe Calgary in general media excluded) everyone thought it was a bad hire. The entire hockey media disagreed with it. Here we were celebrating it as a great move but Liwekies position was matched by 100% of the media and likely most hockey minds in the league. Its tough to blame Liwiekie for having the same opinion as 90% of people.
Also he didn't meddle, he told his GM that this hire is on you, screw it up and you are out. Its not a big vote of confidence but as an employee I would appreciate that bluntness from my boss.
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