[FanIn80]

I don't know. I think hiring Love is a bit of a cop out. It's kinda like a "the answers are in the room" hire. Honestly, I don't know a lot about Mitch Love's career or how good of a coach he is, but you'd have to think having the best goalie in the CHL for the last two seasons would have some impact on his Coach of the Year awards.

I'm still questioning his decision to give up home ice. To me, that just seems like a non-starter. Like, if someone says, "hey Coach, I know you guys are the top seed in the entire league, buuuuut... how about you get the first two home games, and give us the final three? (in a 5-game series)", I would just laugh at the absurdity and that would be the end of it.

I mean, even if we lose the first two games on the road, we would still at least have the home crowd for each elimination game. If you win one on the road, you just need to go 2 and 1 at home to win the series. Winning both on the road, then you just need to win 1 of your 3 home games to move on.

Just a head scratcher to me and even putting all that aside, I'm still not sure how excited I can be about an inexperienced internal hire.