Inexcusable way to treat one of the best to coach the game, and Quenneville wasn't the one who gave Brandon Manning two years, but it was bound to happen.

So basically Barry Smith will be the real head coach (longtime Bowman spy) and Jeremy Colliton the pretend head coach?

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Combine that with the Hammer trade. That one really hurt.

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The 1st Saad trade, I think Bowmans hands were tied. The 2nd one, we were told and saw we needed to be more physical. The Hawks kinda needed that PF after that cup. No one could of seen MS hitting Bickell, but that Bickell trade to Carolina was a botch by the medical staff and Bowman for giving up TT.

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More so than other sports hockey is cutthroat in the transactions. Coaches and players take moves like these with their heads up and move on. Unfortunately, first the coach must go and then if necessary the GM. This has been played out many many times in NHL history.

We do not have to like it but I hope whatever this young coach (and spy) can play the kids and get something together that looks like what other teams accomplish retooling.

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Poetic. But, NBA takes the cake. They fire coaches like every 3 weeks.

If you want Stan gone, you probably don't have to wait longer than this next offseason. A lot of people seem to agree Bowman threw Q under the bus to save his own ass, and if Colliton and Smith can't get this team to the playoffs (they won't) Stan could be next. And he should be. The salary cap is a bitch, but it's been one blunder after another since 2015.

And part of it was Q didn't want young players.

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When you have guys like Kane and Toews, it's obviously a tough decision to move future Hall of Famers/Faces of the Franchise. But to avoid the spot they're in now, the smart thing probably would have been to trade one of those guys (probably Toews) some time after the second Cup. You may not have won the third one, but you'd undoubtedly be in much better shape right now. I can understand why they didn't go that route though.

Also, committing so much money to a goalie is a very un-Bowmanlike thing to do. This is no knock on Crawford. He's an elite goalie. But the (Scottie) Bowman philosophy has always been that an elite goalie isn't the place you want to bury your money in a salary cap situation.

Wait ... trade winning a Stanley Cup to maybe win one later?

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NO

COACH

DOES

Not a single one. If they wanted to coach 19-year-olds, they'd coach the London Knights. Quenneville has given lots of talented young guys chances nonetheless.

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Sure no coach "wants" to. In this cap era though most teams have to have a core and young filler.

Wait ... trade winning a Stanley Cup to maybe win one later?

If you don't play some young guys, then they never develop into productive veterans. There is not enough cap room to have all veterans.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I'm just saying that aversion to rookies is not specifically a Quenneville problem. It's like I've said about "the power play is bad" being a universal lament, "the coach has favorite old guys instead of playing the kids" is another. Look at the stiffs Mike Babcock has put into his lineups in Detroit and Toronto, and he's as respected or more respected than Quenneville.

The guy we traded Hjalmarsson for is out indefinitely with a back injury and Hjalmarsson absolutely did not have a high cap hit, he took a sizable discount to stay in Chicago and Bowman moved him anyway for Phoenix fool's gold.

The Score's playing the TV audio of Quenneville's no-man-in-the-box boner. I'm hearing this for the first time but Troy Murray was apoplectic as it was happening on the radio side.

Yeah, he was OK.

That was interesting. Even though no one was in the box the penalty did expire so why didn't anyone else just go over the boards to join the game?

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