I saw that you posted something earlier in the comments about how incoming ownership will have to be consulted with if a coaching or GM change was to be made. When there are 5-6 groups on record as having interest, nobody is asking a potential group if they think the coach should be fired. In fact, whoever approved all the stuff from the summer are the ones that would approve any hiring or firing. In 30 years of watching pro sports I've never heard of a GM asking a potential group buying a team if he could fire a coach. No group has any say on any decision until the board of governors approve a sale, it's like this in all 4 major pro sports.
- PuckPix

Business is business and it is naive to think that anybody selling an $800m asset is going to commit to a long term deal for a new general manager or head coach. This has nothing to do with hockey. You do not commit to any long term managerial changes during the final stages of the sale of any business.

Nobody would have any problems with hiring an interim coach or even a GM. But it would be exceedingly inappropriate for the Board of Trustees to consider signing a new long term deals with a top recruit, say, for example, Barry Trotz.