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I think over now is happening intensely.

I certainly didn’t notice any improvement in results when he took over, so he hasn’t earned any more time in my opinion, but I would be very surprised if it happened mid season, unless a very highly respected coach showed up on the market.

His blatant mistruths to the fans put him in the weasel category for me. The rest is also true.

Tip of the spear seems so appropriate given the frustration level of the fans.

The story was he was on a spying mission essentially to tell Terry what Botteril and the rest of the org was up to, was advising Terry about he he saw. Yes, Terry asked him as an employee to do it, but it was seriously weasel-ly. And lets not forget the lies to the fans about “extensive searches” and the taxes and palm trees line that other northeastern and Canadian teams don’t seem to be negatively impacted by. He’s a weasel.

And they need to do this as play around the league gets tighter and more intense. This team has shown season after season that it can put up good performances for short stretches when there is no pressure, but never seems to rise up in pressure situations. Its the hallmark of a skilled, but not very good team (if that makes sense). Show me. I’m from Missouri.

Thank you. Every season there are a handful of fans that want to minimize the level of effort they need to be back in the playoffs. “It’s only 6 points”, like they can leapfrog a bunch of teams next week. They’ve already dug a hole that would require elite level play to get out of.

Apparently winning in garbage time can happen before Christmas

Quite the rollercoaster ride in this thread.

Maybe it keeps expectations low.

I voted palm trees and taxes. Only because it signaled to me that he was a man of excuses and a piss poor leader. Yhe statement wasnt the worst move he made, in the sense of its direct effect on the ice, but it was the worst overall because it illuminated just how unqualified he was for the position.

And the fans should never have accepted it.

Darcy (and Lindy) were sacrificial lambs. The team was struggling to make the playoffs. The core was deemed fatally flawed. The prospect cupboard was bare. The fans were almost as angry as they are now. Those two were let go to appease the fanbase. Period.

Or maybe he has no family life he wants to pursue and he just wants to play hockey at the highest level he can dominate. There is no way we can accurately predict his motivations.

Any combination of 2 of the current 3 goalies is an expectation of the same as this year. There has to be a better solution for next season. Period.