Mac Engel breaks down Pete DeBoer’s firing & who could replace him

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Mac Engel from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram joined Shan & Bobby to break down the Stars' decision to fire Head Coach Pete DeBoer. He discussed whether it was a front office move or if the players pushed him out, why DeBoer was let go despite three straight Western Conference Final appearances, and whether the locker room had quit on him. Engel also shared realistic candidates to replace DeBoer.

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00:00fits why why do you think they did it players quit on them um i had a player i was writing

00:21about it when they did it you know they did the friday morning news dump as a poor as opposed to

00:27friday afternoon when they announced it and i texted a couple guys who work in the organization

00:33i said what happened and both of them said players players one said players rule the other

00:38guys said players all the way so during the exit interviews which is common every every team does

00:43that general manager jim nill just got the sense they were sick of them and i signs were beginning

00:50to show on this relationship strain back in february you could kind of hear it and at some point

00:57they're like yeah we're done with this guy and you have to do it you don't have any choice it's 25 guys

01:02it's really more like eight or ten in this case that have power and leverage where the general manager

01:07has to go to the owner and say look this is what we got to do and it's hard for the owner because

01:11he's got to eat the rest of that contract if the board doesn't get another job and i would imagine

01:16he will maybe not right away but that's what this was this was a player-led decision all the way

01:22because there's no way jim nill wanted to do this so do you think if the under thing doesn't happen he

01:28still loses his job yeah i do i i mean it's weird i don't i don't know y'all's reaction the next day i

01:36was there when he said it and when i heard it in real time i was like yeah it makes sense and then

01:43afterwards i could hear members of the canadian press were like oh my god i cannot believe he

01:47just said that about jake ottinger yeah and it really didn't phase me that much i'm like okay

01:52yeah he's right i mean he's and you don't have any other button to push in that case you're down

01:58first of all you've had your butt handed to you in games two three four five and now yeah early in

02:04game five you've changed lineups you've changed pairs you've done everything you can but do this

02:10you're down to oh 30 seconds into the game practically like okay let's go i gotta i gotta

02:17use the timeout i gotta do something to wake these guys up what is that well i'll pull my all-star goalie

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