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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
No, the example I provided was to prove that firing a coach doesn’t always lead to improvements, which it didn’t. There’s tons of other examples out there if that one isn’t to your liking. Even if you want to disregard the Colorado’s collapse, they’re still a middling team like us. We were a rebuilding team who is now a middling team as well.
We were never a contender despite everyone’s over the top, sky high expectations. The jump from being a consistently good team to being a legitimate contender is probably the biggest leap of all. You don’t go from out of the playoffs to a wild card team then straight to a Stanley Cup contender in just a short coupe of years.
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Who said they were cup contenders? Certainly not me and I don't recall many here expecting more than maybe a trip to the 2nd round. They should be a playoff team at the very least and not below the Avalanche in the West. They key is you need to see progress. They have gone from out of the playoffs to wildcard to back out of the playoffs again. This is clearly not forward progress. Firing a coach doesn't necessarily lead to improvement but when you miss the playoffs there's not much worse you can get. Wasting another season on a head coach that has proven he's not the guy is probably the worst thing the GM can do at this point as you can't blow up the roster.