The point is that a new coach helps dictate the new playing style. How do you intend to intend to retool the team while players are underperforming under Carlyle, and without knowing who the new coach is? That’s too many missing variables, and you may end up losing assets you’ll need later. Or, worse, wasting assets unnecessarily.
That’s why a new coach needs to be first. Then you go from there. You figure out what the coach wants to accomplish, start seeing what the players he has can do under him, and make adjustments.
The performance we’re getting out of, at least some of the players, is not what we should expect moving forward. We need to get away from Carlyle, and then see what we’re working with. Trying to figure out what we’re working with, with players underperforming, is a recipe for disaster, both in terms of losing assets we need and potentially moving assets while their value is lower than it should be. Add in a new coach who may be better at coaching the team a different direction further adds to the danger. We know how players are doing under a shit system that has no place in the current NHL, under a coach they’ve given up on. A new system, and a new coach to motivate them, needs to be the start.
