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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Agreed. This wasn't a knee-jerk reaction. The people who are trying to create a narrative around Boudreau are going to be disappointed. This won't be a quick search, and I doubt Boudreau ends up with the job. Treliving is going to beat the bushes, including a lot of guys with no NHL head coaching experience, to find his guy.
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GM's that seek out "their guy" to coach the team which he runs typically don't have a long shelf life. It's all about finding the best coach not "his guy". Take a look at the coaches in the playoffs this year and the common theme is that the majority of the teams have proven winners as head coach as you have Sutter, AV, Boudreau, Trotz, Hitchcock, Quenneville, Laviolette, Ruff, Yeo (kind of a stretch here but they do make the playoffs). A GM can try to find the next great young coach but the landscape is littered with failures and maybe going out on a limb to hire a guy like Travis Green that is getting rave reviews is one thing but the GM better know what he's doing as letting a proven winner like Boudreau slip through his fingers to hire some obscure guy like Huska for example is a surefire way to stall a rebuild and put a GM on the firing line.
As a Raiders fan I still recall rookie GM Reggie McKenzie hiring his first head coach and he hired a first time head coach Dennis Allen kind of out of the blue and all through his press conferences referred to him as "his guy". Guess what his guy wasn't ready to be an NFL head coach and after 2.5 losing seasons Reggie had to can him to hire a proven head coach that in his first season took the team back to respectability. I really, really, really hate the "my guy" or "his guy" talk as that reeks of a GM that is intimidated by coaches that have more experience then he does and is seeking more of a malleable coach that's not going to question him.