Most importantly… will it do any good? Remember, for every Bruce Boudreau who comes in and turns things around instantly, there’s a hundred who don’t have the effect you’d like. It doesn’t mean they’re bad coaches- it means you just don’t have a team that competes at the level you want. Carolina may just be one of those teams that have an off year, do some housecleaning and drafting, and come back as strong as ever next year. But as for canning the coach and GM, I’d wait until later in the season and see if it’s just a bad start or not- and make sure I have a plan in place so that if I do need to make the move, I have people ready to step in and do the job.

If the Canes move JR out of the GM position, you will watch this team tail spin for 5 years before being moved, either back to Hartford or somewhere else. The only plausible replacement Canes have readily available would be Ron Francis, who you can tell frankly isn’t interested in it.

On to the head coach issue, he’s been fired once. When he was ditched last time he went to Toronto, and the Canes ended up paying 50% of his contract while he was coaching another team. Plain and simple, I don’t think anyone is willing to buyout his contract to replace him or double up with 2 head coach payrolls.

I’m not trying to say you’re completely wrong, well, I am, but you’re not thinking like a small South East team with a hard market anyway. You’re thinking like a big North East city, where money grows on trees, and most of the market loves hockey. Hockey is big in Raleigh, and it’s hit and miss once you leave city limits. Even so, there is a Mo Must Go bandwagon right now, and lots of people are on it. Unfortunately, once you get past the “this is a really good idea”, the practicality starts to kick you in the teeth.

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