I doubt he gets fired but I think whatever stability that him and Tippett have tried to build upon has been erased by these playoffs.
The one thing that sticks out to me is that, Holland has said that you have to make more good decisions then bad. It makes sense, its a logical approach, and I think early on, that seemed to work out but now things are pretty murky.
I think people have to realized, he inherited a team with very little cap space. I think its naive to think that he was going to be able to wave a magic wand and fix everything. He said this himself.
I think Holland had a pretty good offseason personally. I think the Barrie signing was a good one. I think Smith was a good signing obviously. I think Kahun, even though he dissapointed a bit, was a good move. The way he handled JP was obviously great. Hes been a bright spot.
This is the first offseason hes had to put his finger prints on the team. And after this playoff fiasco, I wish him luck because I am not sure what you do with this team. Lots of difficult decisons. This team obviously has some problems and some holes.
There are a few things that scares me about Holland.
1) His trades have mostly been awful. Between him and the pro scouts, I have no faith that they will win trades. It seems like every player him and the pro-scouts target, not only have they not worked out, its not even close imo. Has he even won one trade? Even the Neal-Lucic trade at this point, is whatever.
2) I think he had a decent offseason (to me) because he had to be tight with cap space. I think it prevented him from making mistakes. Him having cap space, I think I see it more as a bad thing than a good thing. I dont have confidence he will use it properly because I have no faith in pro-scouting and their player targetting.
Its going to be an interesting offseason for Holland. End of season presser will be something. I think its going to be a lot of muttering about how the great 2006 Red Wings lost to the Oilers. I dont know if his patience will hurt him or help him. After a disasterous playoffs, he has a lot of difficult decisions. All I can say is good luck, hes going to need it.