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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

You are probably right. However, there are some strong coaching candidates available right now. I am not even considering them as 'season saviours', but it wouldn't be the worst move to go with someone more proven and have that first-hand intimate knowledge of the team before now and the last game they play for the season (including playoffs, if they end up making it).


Why? Perhaps that coach can get a better feel for which players slot better in his line-up, can start figuring out a better system to use the existing strengths of this team, and provide feedback to Treliving on who he really wants to keep on the roster, and who he sees as more expendable to use as assets to upgrade/patch-up the roster.


I don't think it will happen either, but if I am a GM and I have made two poor coaching decisions in a row with an associate coach who I felt wasn't even as good of a candidate as one of the poor coaches I have hired...



Getting the right coach for your team isn't easy. Darryl Sutter was horrible at it. Treliving seems horrible at it too. I think it cost Darryl his GM position in the end, and I think it will end up costing Treliving his position as well.


Like I said, I don't think it will happen either, but I think it is probably a good gamble to take at this moment to try and get more consistency out of this core for the rest of the season, but I do think it would help get this team out of the gate quicker next year (rather than trying to learn a brand new system) and hopefully providing Brad with a better 'pulse' on the roster and what moves he needs to make in the off-season.

Making another coaching change this late in the season would set this team back. We don't have time or games to be learning a new system. Like it or not this team sinks or swims with Ward as the Head Coach.