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Originally Posted by dino7c
Brad had a team that was 2nd overall in the entire NHL and then the players forgot how to play hockey during an week off.
He will pay the price most likely but you gotta feel for the guy
Players let him down big time
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Might be true, but at the end of the day he is the architect of this team. They had one very good season and a bunch of mixed results, with mostly poor playoff performances outside of one series at the beginning of his tenure. And it has all culminated in an atrocious disaster of a season this year, which should be deemed unacceptable by anyone.
Honestly, you can't look at the results and think the guy has really earned much more faith. Yeah the players let him down, but he also was the guy that hired Gulutzan years ago. Maybe a Sutter level coach way back then could have made winners out of these guys. Who knows. He's done some good things but not nearly enough good to gloss over what has ended up happening. Its not like his teams were even winning rounds or making noise in the playoffs. There is no reason to lament moving on to another GM.