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Originally Posted by Pointman
I can get the point of it. Burke/Treliving have a long-term vision/Philosophy in place and Gulutzan is a type of coach that fits in with it. If a team can't perform within a set vision, roster needs to be reshaped. Doing it the other way around, I.e. creating a vision around players in place will send the wrong message, that it is the players, rather than the management, that imposes a vision and a direction.
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What you just proposed is terrifying. That is the sign of true arrogance by management. If they are so set in their belief structures that are going to try and fit square pegs into round holes, this is truly a dysfunctional group and a loser organization. Placing so much faith into one individual who has no credible track record of high success, at anything he has done, seems to be a ridiculous business decision. It's the height of stupidity allowing a coach with no success to drive a star player out of town, only to come to the realization that coach is an waste of space and needed to go after all. And yes, we have watching this play out with this club before.
It takes a helluva lot more to draft and develop a player than it does to find a new coach. When you find some talent that can play the game at the NHL level, and be a star at the NHL level, you adjust the system to use their strengths. You don't mess with them and make them change their game to where they are ineffective. This is where this team is right now IMO, they are not using the talent effectively and entrusting in an individual who has shown no success in what he does. It is mind numbing to consider this team would place Gulutzan ahead of a player. WTF has Glen Gulutzan ever done to earn this latitude? This just has Marc Savard/Greg Gilbert written all over it.