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Originally Posted by Red
Well, it's not really how it works. When the owners say, hey how about that Sutter guy, you connect the dots and do as the owners imply. Or you are out of a job. And it's not like Treliving is some hot commodity GM, this may be his only kick at that can.
So happy to see Sutter back. Just what the team needs, an authority.
Wonder if there is a longer plan in place. Coach this year out, evaluate, tinker. Business next year and the one after, hopefully some success. Then off to a POHO cushy position.
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Yeah, the owners can tell him to hire whoever they want, but he has to agree to it if he has full control of hockey decisions.
They can certainly fire him if he won't agree to it, but they'd still have to honor his contract and pay him, so he really has no reason to make a move this unless it's something he wants to do.
Not unless he's just fine and dandy being the GM in name only and having his strings pulled from above like a puppet. Something tells me Treliving would have zero interest in that.