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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It’s not uncommon for NHL management and coaches to be at odds over the deployment of young players. Management concern themselves with the long-term development of team assets, while coaches just care about winning the next game.
What’s concerning is when coaches get their way completely on the matter. I wasn’t especially pleased with the Sutter hire, and this just validates my concern that giving a coach who has such a short-term perspective the decisive voice in roster decisions is going to be bad for this franchise.
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Without debating "Sutter good/bad" point, I think, given ownership and behind the scenes dynamic, we are in an NFLstyle set-up now, where the coach runs the show, and the GM just fetches stuff that the coach wants. Whether that is for good or ill is a separate debate...