Happy or Sad: Your Reaction if Tocchet Named HC?
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TheLegend
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Cobra.... Del's correct in this case.
In the corporate world.... people who are no longer wanted within the company are often given an "out" in lieu of being directly terminated. Particularly when said person has spent a long time within the company. It allows both sides to make a clean break and publicly save face. The party leaving gets to walk away saying "it was time" and the company gives them a public "pat on the back" for their service.
Everything Barroway has done to this point follows right along with a corporate mentality. Doan even commented that his being informed he would not be offered a contract had a "corporate" feel to it.
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Over the years I have known some people who have been fired but not as many as compared to those that have been "asked to resign" or "allowed to resign". Tippett was the latter. And it is true that if he just quit he would not have received a multi million dollar check. But you mention that they were "attempting to fire Tippett with cause". I have my own ideas as to what I would have fired him for but what exactly was the owner trying to get on him to have him fired with cause?
Supposedly insubordination.
I agree, but most of us aren't owed 20 million dollars. There was no upside for anyone if Tippett stayed, or if there was a protracted legal battle over having cause. So they gave him half of what he was owed and sent him on his way. Everyone took the best option available to them.
I'm mainly countering the idea that he somehow left on his own or 'quit', which he obviously didn't. That's a joke and a half. The thing about coups is that they aren't exactly stable ya know?
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I think Smith may have been the only question mark. Tippett always said that if there was a way to improve the team, it would be looked at. We were tied to the #3 OA going to Boston for Hamilton, so I don't see why it would be out of the realm of possibility that Stepan or other players were looked at. In fact, didn't an article state that Stepan had been asked about quite often and a deal finally was cemented this year, even though there were talks dating back a year when Tippett was still the coach.
But yes, this was the exact type of team that Tippett had talked about - adding veterans to the mix without terribly reducing our young core.
Right, and that will happen within the next two to three years when all the kids come off their ELC, unless they start to trade their players because they can not afford to keep them.
I know you are to young to understand, but it takes time to turn around a company that was so decimated by the NHL, and especially a company this large that requires a certain skill set that most people don't have. The team was/is heading in the right direction.
A parting of the ways is different then being fired. If you listened to Chayka's comments, he didn't say Tip was fired and also said to the effect that we had hoped Tip would still be the coach. I can't recall his exact comments but it was an interview. Chayka didn't say parting of ways, different direction, etc...
Chayka was kind of backing Tip just a little. Maybe Smith being traded and the way they handled Doan was enough for Tip to know he wasn't going to have say so over the roster any longer. Maybe Tip wanted out and came to Barroway saying I want to move on.
The insubordination or terminating a contract for cause is next to impossible to win as an employer, that just wasn't a factor. I am sure we will hear the real story over time, so we'll see.
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K. I'm done. Of course, I'll have to answer to my wife for not defending her dad. Just kidding.
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Honestly, it doesn't make a whit of difference to me which coach they choose, as long as they give him the tools to succeed. As noted earlier, a mid-course correction is not that hard to do. Phil Jackson replaced Doug Collins and took essentially the same squad to the NBA championship.
We will become a serious contender if Keller or Domi exceeds their high expectation to become elite. Along with that we will need Duclair, Perlini and Fisher to become very good top 6 forwards.
We will become a serious contender if Keller or Domi exceeds their high expectation to become elite. Along with that we will need Duclair, Perlini and Fisher to become very good top 6 forwards.
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My theory of Tippett talk begetting more Tippett talk still holds true 100%
. It all started just by someone saying how glad he was we can talk about someone else and BAM.We should have a virtual dollar jar for anyone who types his name out
Anywho this thread is basically the same as the other one now and the poll is about done.
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