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Originally Posted by transplant99
Still not putting the blame on the actual people not executing on the ice.
Im pretty sure just a mere 5 weeks ago i could go back and find refrain after refrain that would go something like
"Its ownerships fault for cheaping out on coaching"
"if theses guys had an elite coach, they would realize their potential"
"Ward/Peters/Gulutzan arent even AHL level coaches".
Yet, they are worse than ever with that addressed.
Again...multiple coaches....same thing...but you know, put the blame upstairs.
Sure, get rid of BT, Conroy, Pascall, whomever I fully understand that argument but it wont make a lick of difference without changing personnel on the ice.
Put it this way, which scenario do you think would produce better results?
Change the GM but bring back the same group?
or
Change a chunk of the group and come back under the existing GM?
Answer that honestly and its obvious where the biggest issues lie.
I get that some, maybe most will say, change both.
The issue there is that any new guy (outside the org anyhow) will need time to get into his position and do his own evaluation of what he has to work with, what he sees fits his vision, and then identifying others around the league he can realistically obtain via trade with the guys he decides are no longer pieces here. That would take months if they did it now. Longer if they make the change after the season.
Maybe there is someone whom they have already contacted and asked to be ready in case they make a change who has that kind of grasp on the team that would shorten those timelines?
So realistically, we are at the point of changes in the GM spot or on the actual roster, but not likely both unless its to bring someone in to blow it up and start over. That simply is not happening even if it may be the right thing to do.
Two things why player change is WAY more likely
1) BT in year 1 of his new deal
2) New coach hired a month ago on a 3 year deal
The other solution is to fire BT and let Sutter GM the team until such a time he has re-shaped the roster in his image. You game for that?
Or
Murray Edwards and fellow owners decide that they are willing to eat millions and millions of existing contracts, hire more people to replace those fired for millions and millions more, blow up the team to make them very bad coming off an entire calendar year of minimal revenues, all while planning to move to a new stadium in 3 years.
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The GM needing to go because he can't break up a failed core has the players being a problem as the foundation of the opinion. Unfortunately this GM can't identify that until it's way too late. And if he can, then he can't bring himself to trade away one of his pieces that actually could have got value until that value has totally eroded.
The players are not good enough is implicit and obvious. So why isn't the GM correcting it? And why hasn't he corrected it for the years it's been apparent?
Everyone knows the players aren't good enough transplant. That they're still here is why people are pissed at the GM.