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Originally Posted by Bingo
If they have the money and a candidate they like ... by all means fire Geoff Ward. I'm honestly not a fan.
But I think we'd see soon after that either they hired a "bad" coach again, or that the roster itself isn't good enough.
I think both the coaching and the roster needs a change.
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You may very well be right, and if you are, then I would think it would be the best course of action to make the coaching change now (if they have a strong candidate at least).
The new coach can come in and start massaging his system onto the roster, and provide more feedback to Treliving about which players need to go, which are expendable, and which should be re-signed.
I can't help but remember when Darryl Sutter seemed to have that 'pulse' on the team, and the roster changes that he would make while he had both the GM and Coach caps on seemed like 'just what the team needed'. The longer he was away from the coaching side of things, the less his moves seemed to help.
Still time left in this season to make a switch - by all means Ward can perhaps turn this around yet. The most important part of this is to find a coach that is right for as much of this team as possible, and work on the roster starting at the deadline and then into the off-season.
I guess the counter-argument is that if Treliving doesn't like any of coach available now, then there is not much point in making the move until he finds a suitable replacement (or one at least becomes available).
I just hate wasting this core's years away, and having this constant debate of "Is it the players, or the coach, or both?".
In my opinion, up until now, coaching has been part of the problem, and it makes fixing the roster (outside of the obvious necessity of Markstrom and finding a replacement for Brodie and Hamonic) seem almost like pure guesswork.