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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Oh good, give him lots of runway to make things worse so that the next GM is starting from less than scratch.
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Im not sure it plays out that way.
Most guys on the GM hot seat make those desperate deals (Sutter) in an effort to save their jobs. With BT knowing he will be back, that
shouldn't play out that way here. He has the rope to step back and truly assess not only what went wrong on the ice, but his own role in it occurring. I guarantee he would like a do over on the Lucic/Neal thing as an example, and privately would admit as much.
So although much of what's going on can be directly and indirectly attributed to choices he has made. He has shown more than a willingness to try and correct those issues and with that extension in his back pocket acting as a vote confidence by proxy from ownership, he can approach this thing differently than a majority of guys who find themselves in similar situations.
There is no quick fix for whatever the hell is actually going on with the guys in the room, but BT needs to identify what it is precisely and have the long-term security to deal with it moving forward. I think that's pretty close to how it plays out as well.