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Coaching changes aren't connected to bottom line

By Al Morganti
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, January 24, 2003

One of the more popular assumptions during the past two months has been that teams are firing coaches because the NHL's financial landscape makes it difficult to make a trades to improve or change the dynamics to a team. It sounds reasonable, until you consider that coaches in the NHL never have owned much job security -- and that was established well before the team's payroll was so bloated. If payroll was the primary driving force, how do you explain that the two teams that filed for bankrupt ...

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