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Originally Posted by Bingo
I always find "smartest guy in the room" cringe worthy.
You don't want to limit your GM to making a decision that he doesn't want to make because it will make him look like he's trying to be the smartest guy in the room.
Hire who he thinks would be the best coach and or staff. Period.
If you don't think he's the guy to pick said coach that's a whole other discussion, but one that needs to happen quite quickly as he's about to make the call.
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Call it what you want. I could have chosen a different phrase if I knew you wouldn’t like it but the point still stands
There has been that same asterisk with each of his hand selected hires
Neither guy had been successful as a head coach as a NHL head coach. Both had been head coaches, but not with any material success
So Tre has to think that something will be different with his roster plus coach X
Why would Treliving think that they could be successful with his team?
That is somewhat of a ‘smartest guy in the room’ problem, isn’t it? Kind of like the Jankowski draft? You see something that other people don’t see and are willing to stake some of your professional results on it
I don’t apologize for using that phrase, but welcome suggested alternatives