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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Oddly enough, when I made my last post in this thread, I was thinking of Moneyball and the difference between the movie and the reality. GMs don't just jettison assets to force their coaches to run the team a certain way, and coaches aren't dumb enough to need their hand forced like that. (The real manager of the A's at that time understood exactly what Bean was doing, and approved, though they had different opinions about the best way to use particular players.)
Moneyball the movie is great entertainment. Moneyball the book is an education. If you've only seen the movie, I highly recommend that you read the book.
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I'd like to introduce you to the Brad Treleving / Daryl Sutter era of the Calgary Flames. There's a more than zero percent chance that Treleving would have sent out a couple of players -- Lewis, Lucic -- to get Sutter to play Pelletier and Phillips that last year.
Was likely a main reason for the friction, and if management had Treleving's back rather than Sutter's, and still didn't want to cut Sutter because of the extension he just signed, it might have happened.