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mrdonkey · 11-26-2019, 12:56 PM

Sutter seems like a bit of a long shot to me. The man won his cups and put in his time, and seems comfortable moving on to the next chapter of his life.

Promoting Ward might not be the worst idea in the world. I have little faith he’ll be able to turn things around, but with how much parity there is in the league these days how much can we really expect a coaching change alone to turn this ship around into a contender?

Let him sink or swim, and if he sinks then we can go into the draft finally having a chance to pick up an honest to god franchise center. Trying to salvage a broken season in December is how you drag yourself back into the shadow realm of drafting 15th overall, and if you’re lucky you’re at best serving as some other team’s road bump to reaching the second round.

11-26-2019, 12:56 PM	#71
mrdonkey Franchise Player Join Date: Jul 2009 Exp:	Who should be the next coach of the flames? Sutter seems like a bit of a long shot to me. The man won his cups and put in his time, and seems comfortable moving on to the next chapter of his life. Promoting Ward might not be the worst idea in the world. I have little faith he’ll be able to turn things around, but with how much parity there is in the league these days how much can we really expect a coaching change alone to turn this ship around into a contender? Let him sink or swim, and if he sinks then we can go into the draft finally having a chance to pick up an honest to god franchise center. Trying to salvage a broken season in December is how you drag yourself back into the shadow realm of drafting 15th overall, and if you’re lucky you’re at best serving as some other team’s road bump to reaching the second round.