Sorry man - Colliton is going to be looking over his shoulder during his entire (I predict short lived) tenure as head coach.
- Return of the Roar

Not until Stan get fired.

Comparing the Coach to the GM is comparing apples and oranges.

The Hawks are taking standard action. First, thank you Q for being part of the best period of Blackhawk Hockey ever. You will forever be a legend in the city and can open up your own restaurant now.

How many of you work in management? When you take the job, do you take it by making disclaimers, or do you take it with the determination to use all available resources to meet company objectives? In the real world managers accept the fact they are not given a loaded deck to win. If that were the case, anyone could manage.

For whatever reason, it is clear that Q's message has fallen on deaf ears. There are plenty of positives, just inconsistencies. That falls on the coach and why he is gone.

Whining about the resources Bowman has given Q is absurd. For 5 years he had the best team from 1 to 23 in the NHL. Without the best talent, Q has not shown the ability to make chicken salad out of chicken .... So fans have a pity party for poor Q, because he does not have 15 olympic players on his team? And it is not the results, it is how they have looked. Fans can handle losing if the team lays it all out there and leaves it on the ice....that has not been the case the last few years.

For those pining for the great rebuild show their arrogance and entitlement. This team is not that bad. Sure they are battling some injuries on blue line etc... but they are similar to most teams in the NHL. I for one am looking forward to them to start playing with some heart and determination for 60 minutes and not like a bunch of entitled cats.
- TrueGrit

J F. Christ couldn't coach this group of stumble bums into the playoffs. They have 4 legit forwards (Toews, Kane, Saad, DCat) & 3 legit NHL defensemen (Keith, Joki, Seabs). And an excellent goalie. The rest are has beens, may bes and never wills.

#StanSucks

What NHL level defenseman did Stan draft and develop in all his ten plus years as GM? Guess what. None until Joki made the roster this year. Of course, he drafted Johns if you want to count him, but he gave him away for free when he botched the Sharp trade.

The point is he did great surrounding a great core until 2015. Since then, maybe since the Danault trade, it has been a continual series of bad decisions that have torn down the team to the state it is in now.

It is one thing to not add a core piece while drafting late, but it is another thing to have nothing but AHL fodder to fill out the NHL roster around the core. Gustafsson? Come on. He is the only NHL GM that would have even offered him a contract last year. If it wasn't for Stan he would be in Sweden right now.

He sunk the depth on this team in a terrible way. Again, he didn't bring Panarin into the organization, Barry Smith did. But he did jettison a top 1o point producer in all the NHL for a guy who has played his way to the 4th line three years running.

So do you really think Stan was going out of his way to NOT add any all star caliber talent because the Hawks were up against the cap? Really?
- hereismike1

Who gets the Binny's spots...

Enzo - come on - you know Q had to go. It is OK to keep your Q Shrine though.
- Z3Hawk

Well his dog named Q anyway...Q shrine's a little creepy.

A suggestion to help alleviate the constraints of the salary cap would be to allow contracts to be re-negotiated and to eliminate front loaded contracts so that a players take home salary is the same each year of the contract. That would eliminate the penalty to repay the difference between AAV and take home pay. The players union would probably never agree unless there's some safety net provision for the player where the team can't just terminate the contract with no recourse for the player.

The point would be to eliminate the Seabrook type deals which hamstrings teams and doesn't support the spirit of the salary cap which is to even the playing field - not punish teams for paying a player who has his productivity fall off a cliff.

What NHL level defenseman did Stan draft and develop in all his ten plus years as GM? Guess what. None until Joki made the roster this year. Of course, he drafted Johns if you want to count him, but he gave him away for free when he botched the Sharp trade.

The point is he did great surrounding a great core until 2015. Since then, maybe since the Danault trade, it has been a continual series of bad decisions that have torn down the team to the state it is in now.

It is one thing to not add a core piece while drafting late, but it is another thing to have nothing but AHL fodder to fill out the NHL roster around the core. Gustafsson? Come on. He is the only NHL GM that would have even offered him a contract last year. If it wasn't for Stan he would be in Sweden right now.

He sunk the depth on this team in a terrible way. Again, he didn't bring Panarin into the organization, Barry Smith did. But he did jettison a top 1o point producer in all the NHL for a guy who has played his way to the 4th line three years running.

So do you really think Stan was going out of his way to NOT add any all star caliber talent because the Hawks were up against the cap? Really?
- hereismike1

Yes. That's kind of the point. They couldn't afford another one.

Also, on Gus, totally disagree. He might not be on about a half a dozen team's rosters, but he's a 5/6 dman on pretty much everyone else's and being paid like one.

The Rutta contract I disagree with.

I nearly pissed my pants with laughter. Who said McD wasn't going to call these decisions a rebuild, but a remodel? That's exactly what he said!!!!! Sorry if this was already addressed, I just got home from school and laughed my ass off. What a McD thing to say.

Question to anyone ... I'm sensing a fire to come out of these guys now. How successful are teams, generally, after a coach firing? This is such a different instance because the guys loved Q, blamed themselves, and he had been there 10 years. Colliton is thrown into shark-infested waters ... what should I expect on the season?