[Erick Estrada]

I never liked the hire from day one as it's apparent over two seasons with the Stars and two in Calgary he's nothing more than a middle of the road .500 head coach. That said he's really grown on me as a person and every time this team had a winning streak I hoped that it was the turning point for him and he could get a team playing consistent hockey once the streak is over but unfortunately that is not the case. Basically three winning streaks over two years are the only thing that really kept his team in the playoff races and before someone says "well if you subtract the winning streaks from any team......" no that's not true. A lot of good teams go through their 10 game segments consistently winning 6+ games. This team has been well below .500 since the last winning streak ended much like last season when the 10 game winning streak ended they finished below .500 to end the season which was followed by a sweep in the playoffs. Simply too many losses in regulation and extra time under this coach and two years in theres absolutely no indication things will change next season as he's got less out of a better roster in year two without any major injuries outside of Smith missing the last couple of weeks which some teams would gladly trade losing their starter for only two weeks if it meant the rest of their top players were injury free.

Must be frustrating for Treliving because he probably felt he did a lot to improve this roster over the summer solidifying the defense, goaltending and providing a better roster for Gulutzan than year one. Unfortunately the results haven't been there and knowing that he and Gulutzan have a long time relationship it can't be a good feeling to have to fire an old friend.