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I lean towards yes to salvage a season before it gets too far away from the roster that doesn’t have that extra gear in games like last night. The assembled players are good enough, though the loss of Versteeg is a bigger hole then it should be, and Monahan being hurt hadn’t helped these last weeks. When things seems to be lacking in the game and play is average or a bad break against, it takes too long for the team to respond and pull themselves out of their funk. It’s a confidence thing, and it’s also a button pushing thing for the coach to challenge the players properly.

But, I am going to assume Tippet and staff would be the most likely replacement for Treliving. Of course Sutter would be magic, and could ride off in the sun set after s couple seasons more here in Calgary. Tippets teams though notoriously dull, get the job done with less talent but he, like Sutter, pushes the buttons that need pushing. All Hartley did was push buttons but that has a lifespan which he over did and wore out.

Question is, would Tippet, or Sutter’s system, be picked up quick enough in January without losing more ground while adapting?

So timing is an issue. This sooner than later if it’s going to be done...don’t let GG lose again to the Oilers at the end of January, it has to be done before that or may as well wait for the season to end...

And he’s not getting new assistants. Or are they firing an assistant. Those guys come as a package in this day and age and it’s a coaching group that sinks or swims, as much as fans want to assign blame (which is valid), the coach is ultimately responsible for his assistants and what goes through them. Gerarrd followed him from Dallas, just like Cloutier and Hartley and as Preston was in SJ before and LA after for Sutter.