Extending a coach after an overachieving year but before the next season's games have started so he can show that he can carry over some of that success is pretty amateur GMing.
Conroy has done a lot of good for the rebuild and even some surprisingly excellent moves under the circumstances, but unless he was knowingly/willingly risking bottoming out then the timing of the re-sign was not well thought out.
I still think he's doing a better job of 'building' than Treliving did by simply not jumping on risky now-oriented trades and free agent signings to fast forward the rebuild. He's doing it right and that i applaud. But naturally, first time GMs are going to have some warts too.
I think Huska is an AHL caliber coach. But ironically he prefers his established NHLers over AHLers ready or pushing to graduate full time.
Makes no sense in a rebuild. If he's trying to save the season still, fine. But the approach had better change in the next two weeks. We're a few losses away from objectively unsalvageable.
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