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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
People want GG to shorten the bench and roll 2 lines only 15 games into the season? Sounds like a great way to make sure your top guys are injured or burnt out by game 50.
The bottom 6 has struggled and personally I feel like they need to play their way out of it - benching them isn’t going to help their confidence issues and GG can only play the guys he has on the roster. It’s not like it’s his fault we have too many old vets in the bottom line.
It shouldn’t be surprising though - people wanted GG fired 10 games into the season last year, and then again after they were swept in the first round of the playoffs but lost because of 7 soft goals in 4 games. He will never be accepted by lots on this board since he was never the “sexy” hire and was the one coach most didn’t want.
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I don't want him fired. I'm just openly questioning when the the promise of all these offseason upgrades is going to turn into reality on the ice. I'm willing to give him into 2018 this season before declaring a coaching change needs to be made. The reality is that he's going to coach out this season regardless of what happens as I can't see him getting fired for Cameron to take over. I do think that with all the picks given up to improve the roster today that he's probably not going to make it to the 3rd season of his contract if this team doesn't at the very least meet expectations which is probably getting into the 2nd round. I suppose losing a competitive first round series may be enough for Treliving to bring him back but it they just scrape into the playoffs and get smoked again I think there will be a lot of pressure for Treliving to move on.