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Coaches joining firing line at quicker pace

By George Johnson
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Yes, they are -- as the creaky cliché tells us -- hired to be fired. Uh huh, they know full well going in that eventually the whims of 20-odd, self-absorbed, personal-agenda-driven nouveau millionaires will determine their fate. This is certainly not to suggest all 30 National Hockey League coaches are geniuses, that none deserves to be fired, that some aren't substantially to blame for their teams' misfires. But for the most part, given the individual-versus-the-mob situation they find ...

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