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Originally Posted by polak
I don't get why everyone acts like first we need to find this magical candidate that the entire league seems to have ignored and THEN we can fire Hartley.
Fire Hartley, Place Gelinas as the interm coach and have a normal candidate headhunt. The list of candidates for an NHL coaching job is not exclusive to ex-NHL coaches with plenty of experience. Every great coach got the "first shot" from some one.
When someone is absolutely bombing at work, day in, day out for over a month and your company starts to get destroyed by the competition, do you wait until you find the perfect candidate to replace them? No you fire them, take over their responsibilities and start looking for a replacement candidate. It makes even more sense in the NHL cause you have a whole team of support staff under this guy that know how to run the day to day duties.
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If you fire a head coach you almost always don't want his assistants either. Firing without a plan for replacement at the beginning of the year especially, is no plan at all. You can sometimes see it towards the end of the year, when there's nothing to salvage.
"First shot coaches" are not hired because the GM didn't have a plan. It's because the plan was to to give that coach a chance.
ETA: My quote of you beat your stealth edit.