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Originally Posted by Psytic
Im starting to believe the folks that say this is an ego thing with Tre if he didnt want Sutter. The guy clearly seems to want nobodies so he doesnt get challenged. Im sure even Bob was too much him.
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I don't think it's ego. If you look at all of Treliving's hires and interviews he's mostly interviewed coaches that don't have a lot of clout and wouldn't be able to challenge his authority. Remember he came from the Coyotes where Tippett won a power struggle with his buddy Maloney so that's always in his mind when assessing coaches. Also let's not forget this organization hired Darryl Sutter to be coach and GM so they aren't adverse to falling in love with a successful head coach and giving him power. Has he even interviewed a single veteran coach that's had a lot of NHL success? I believe he interviewed Crawford but that was probably as a favour to Burke. It's pretty inexcusable that he's on his 4th coach and he's never really interviewed a veteran coach with a track record. If you look around the league a lot of the better teams have coaches that have won before. Trotz, AV, Julien, Laviolette, Quenneville, DeBoer, etc keep getting jobs because they win at every stop. Even Tippett has the Oilers playing up to their talent level. Why wouldn't you at least interview Boudreau or Gallant? It just doesn't make sense if winning is the ultimate goal.