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Originally Posted by Bingo
Nothing behind closed doors can be assumed to be a given.
We just don't know.
If Treliving laid out a plan where Geoff Ward was his ride and die, and he wanted to keep Monahan and Gaudreau despite pressure from ownership to move them ... then yeah, they're likely pissed, and he's on the way out.
But what if he wanted to look at a different coach and ownership blocked it? What if he had a Gaudreau trade worked out and the ownership group didn't like the return and nixed the deal?
I always felt the delay around hiring Ward suspicious considering it was easy to bring him back. Won't guess at what that means, but it could point to an internal disagreement on which way to go, or the desire to bring in a different guy that turned them down.
either way there are no givens.
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This for me has always been the weird thing too. What was going on during that period? Because something was? And I don't believe it was just the time he needed to evaluate. I believe it is because he was exploring other options that he considered "better" (including possibly Sutter) and when those couldn't happen he reverted to Ward because that point he didn't have a better option.
And again - the 2 year contract thing is because otherwise you are hiring a lame duck coach, which never goes well.