I still think Hitchcock took the job because he really didn’t think an organization could be as toxic as everyone in the league on the inside has said (and because it was a short term gig), and had to see it for himself, being the lifelong hockey guy he is.
After tonight, no doubt that he sees how terminal the problem is, with talented players literal shells of what they could be due to organizational incompetence and ego over the past years setting up a structure that is basically destroying any sort of hope and talent in these 20something year old hockey players and has for a decade or more.
That’s why he says he doesn’t want to say any more and get in any more trouble, because the blame leads back to the guys signing his cheque and he may as well quit.
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