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Originally Posted by blender
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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Well said. Unless you are trying to tank and have already unloaded all your good players, its unacceptable to get pumped every other game and be outplayed to start games for the majority of the last 10 or so games. And yes, the players deserve a lot of blame. But at the end of the day the coach is steering this ship as far as on ice performance goes. We've seen this before, any time a team is playing this poorly...its time for the coach to go.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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