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Originally Posted by Itse
I don't think it's really fair to call them "instincts". I mean sure, we have only very partial information, but there's a lot of very useful information available to fans these days.
Also, the problem with wanting more information is that you can never have all of it. At some point you just have to decide you have enough to make a call. Not as much as a GM, but it's very far from nothing.
We just have different points where we think we have enough.
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I think this is exactly right, but I also do not believe that even with the great tools available to us in the public we are ever getting enough to make any sort of call, and that is what separates us as fans from NHL GMs.
I am not suggesting that the NHL GM is infallible. What I am suggesting is that the extremely vitriolic and exasperated responses to the fact that Treliving has not made a coaching change yet are absurdly shortsighted.