Random thoughts:
Aside from admitting you made the initial mistake of hiring Glen, I just don’t see how firing him is a losing proposition for Treliving. Whoever you bring in, if you don’t make the playoffs, looks like we’re heading there anyways under Glen. If we get a new coach and we do make the playoffs, it looks like a shrewd move. If the new hire takes them deep into the playoffs you look like a genius. It will reflect so bad on the GM to give up a first and second round draft pick and stick with the coach who’s going to that pick into a top 10 pick for another team.
As for recycling previous coaches, Hitchcock, Carlyle, Julien, etc. we’re all previously fired from the teams they currently coach for. Sutter was never fired as Calgary’s coach. Not that that makes a huge bearing on the decision to rehire him, just an interesting note. Speaking of Darryl the last time he was hired mid season he took an underachieving team with a record of 16-14-4 and coached them to a record of 25-13-11. Went from 10th in the west up to 8th and then we all know what happened in the playoffs. Not saying we’d have the same end result, but it’s hard to imagine the team wouldn’t improve enough to at least make the playoffs.
We need you Darryl.
