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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Zero guarantee that any other coaching staff would guarantee results. Just look at the whole Dallas Eakins/Oiler era. Everyone thought he was a terrible coach and then a winning coach in Todd McLellan comes in and the team was still bad and stuck in the basement. The exact same scenario could easily happen here.
My belief is that there's far too much blame on coaches these days especially since the strategies of the game are essentially the same from team to team. All coaches demand hard work, they demand backchecking, they demand attention to detail. Every coach is just clone of one another these days because it's such a reactionary game where split second decisions determine the out come of every game. I'm steadfast in my belief that the players on the ice are the biggest determining factor of whether we win or lose and I'm not going to scapegoat a coach that isn't as bad as everyone thinks he is.
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Of course the same thing could happen here. But in that scenario, what has been lost?
The team is under-performing (which sucks). They replace the coach and the team continues to under-perform. So we're even. And in fact we're still ahead, because we learned something. We learned that either a) the team isn't as good as we thought, and now we can fix it, or b) that Treliving doesn't know how to pick a coach.
BUT...
Something else might happen. Maybe a new coach actually takes the team to the next level.
Sounds a lot like a no lose situation to me.