"I would think that, for the incoming GM, unless he just believes - after conversations with Shanahan and the star players - that a coaching change is needed, I'm not so sure why there would be an urgency to make that change because we know that there are other candidates out there.
Andrew Brunette is going to be an NHL head coach next season. Travis Green is back in the conversation, as he should be. Where is Gerard Gallant going to land? So there are definitely candidates.
If you want to consider experience, Peter Laviolette makes a lot of sense to me, but again, are we underestimating Sheldon here? Did he simply get out-coached by the Florida Panthers [and the] experience of Paul Maurice?
Some would say yes he did... I don't like pinning things on head coaches... I put it on the players, to be fair."