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Who's Running The Show For The Florida Panthers

11/28/2016 at 7:11pm EST

from Dave Hyde of the SunSentinel,

The names keep changing. The roles keep shifting. The primary question stays the same:

Do the Panthers know what they're doing?

With Sunday night's firing of coach Gerard Gallant, the purge is nearly complete of the smart hockey lifers that gold-fingered general manager Dale Tallon assembled before being kicked upstairs last spring.

The old-school hockey minds have given way to hockey analytics almost completely now. Maybe this team wins now. Maybe it gets healthy and shakes off a slow start. Probably in the short term, as Tallon assembled so much talent it can't be completely screwed up no matter who's in charge.

That brings up the question: Who is in charge? To announce Gallant's firing Monday, four Panthers officials were needed on the teleconference with media. Four. One more and they'd have a starting lineup Tuesday night in Chicago for the first game of their next chapter.

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