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Originally Posted by JohnnyT
Retro brought up the change from Sutter to Playfair on the morning show today I think that's comparable. Sutter was a drill Sargent, as was Hartley, and then you bring in a guy who isn't suppose to do that, problem is with a young team they now have to motivate themselves on a daily basis and there's a definite learning period for that. Add in new contact expectations for your stars and a bad start and now you have a young team trying to find motivation themselves who are a fragile glass ball tumbling down a rocky cliff that feel like every mistake they make ends up with a red light going on.
I don't think Gully is that bad of coach, he definitely has his issues, but he's been setup to fail this season. I think playoffs are already essentially out of the picture this season, now management has to decide if they stick out with and hope that the team starts to perform under Gully and next season is better, or do they fire him and hope whoever comes in the interim can reinstill an indentity in this team. If you do fire him, then the question becomes A) can you hire another players coach, or have your core learned nothing and we need to go back to basics? B) Who is out there coaching wise that could be with your team for the foreseeable future?
Not a fun time to be in hockey ops, but you've made decisions that got you to the point you're at now and now your being paid to fix it.
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I was thinking about the Playfair experiment as well and how it was rumoured that he never quite had the room.
And if you believe the rumours that Hartley was let go partially because some members of Generation Snowflake thought he was too big of a meanie and they wanted a more easy going coach, it makes me wonder if GG is too afraid to call out and punish the wrong guys.