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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
I don't know what you're trying to imply, so just say it instead okay?
To me, it says to them that the team is willing to make changes if things aren't going well, especially if you have an entire season below expectations. It depends on what management sees the problem as being. It's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario when it comes to player performance and coaching. It's hard to know where accountability for one begins and one ends. But you know the old saying. It's a lot easier to change one coach than it is to change 20-some players.
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It's a team that's got a bunch of guys who had a very successful season last year under a coach who is a multiple cup winner and who everyone knows is there to specifically try to win another one with this team and is dedicated to that, and you've got a small number of new guys who came in on big contracts to help the team reach that level but who have underperformed badly. If they dump the coach because those new guys joined the team and didn't perform on their big new contracts, it's basically like saying to the players and to any future coach that this team runs through those new guys - guys who have done nothing since joining the Flames to earn that.
It strikes me as a bad message to the preceding players about the trustworthiness of the organization to stick to a vision of what they're supposed to be building together, and a bad message to any incoming coach about who's in charge of the team.
I don't think the organization should let any of them off the hook that easily. They should have to work through it as a team, even if that sucks. If they can't, then blow everything up, including dumping those new guys for whatever can be recuperated because they can't be part of building a new core.