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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
I find that when it comes to choices like this from a fan's perspective, priority number 1 seems to be that the team hire a coach that gives the other fan bases the least amount of ammunition to say negative things about the hire.
Thus the Carlyle fear. OMG, people will call it a Leafs Re-tread hire, how will I cope at the bar when I'm grabbing a drink with my Oiler buddies, or how will I manage the trolls on the interslice............I want someone else.
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I think for Carlyle it's more that his teams have had some of the worst underlying stats since we have begun tracking them, less concern about what other fan bases think.
It would also be odd hire because he would be the exact opposite of a coach that Brad had originally described when Hartley was fired.