If you really believe in his potential as a coach, bringing him in now wouldn't be the craziest thing. Let him work through the kinks with a growing team like they did with Bednar. But it's hard to say how much he actually did for the Panthers. I didn't watch any Panthers games so I don't really know how much credit he can personally take or if he just carried on what Quenneville set up in the first place. Not to mention the terrible playoffs he just went through. There's a good possibility he lucked his way into a pretty easy situation