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Originally Posted by Vinny01
He walked into a team that had missed the playoffs 5 years in a row and hadn’t won a series in a decade or a division in 8 years. In his 7 years they will have made the playoffs 4-5 times, won a round, and had the best regular season in 30 years. I don’t know if I call that a lack of progress?
I also think it is likely they give Conroy a shot as he has been in management for 10 years being groomed by the org. Most companies prefer to promote from within vs going outside for a hire so I agree with Text that the next guy coming in will be another rookie
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Well he won a round with Feaster’s team. The top scorer on that team that was not on the Feaster team the year before was Mason Raymond. The other pieces he added were Englland and Bollig up front and Hiller in net. But he has made the playoffs 3 out of the next 5 seasons with this year TBD. I think it would be a stretch to give him too much credit for that first year, given the small amount of changes he made (adding a 1A goalie, a top 9 forward, a top 6 dman and a pressbox popcorn muncher).