The decision to fire the coach at this point isn't about the system or the personnel decisions or whatever.
It is about the product on the ice and the fact that the coach is ultimately responsible for that at a game-by-game level.
This is the NHL. It is one thing to be a middle of the pack team, or to be slumping, or to have bad goaltending, but to have such malaise at all functional levels is inexcusable.
It is the coach's fault. End stop. If the team you are responsible for performs so far below expectations you lose your job.
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