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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Well I believe what happened is that
- Tree wanted to hire Sutter in the off-season
- This was one of the times, or the time, that he could have been referring to when he has stated that had talked in the past but the timing wasn’t right
- When it didn’t work out he moved back to Ward absent a perceived better choice
- He gave Ward 2 years because that’s generally standard practice to hiring a lame duck coach
Then when the team couldn’t get on track, one of two things happened
- He went to owners and expressed a desire to re-engage with Sutter
- Or the Owners went to him and encouraged him permission to re-engage with Sutter
In either case I don’t think it’s a case that he didn’t want to hire Sutter and therefore made him hire him.
Moreover, if they didn’t believe in BT, why would they let him handle the trade deadline? Once you lose faith in your GM you have to get rid of them.
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Mid season GM firings are rare. It happened with Ray Shero last year but they do not happen very often. As for letting him run the deadline, they let him make two trades for prospects. But I imagine, given the ratio of firing GM’s in the offseason vs. mid-season firings in the league in general, that keeping him on is not necessarily a sign that they are fine with him.