from Steve Rosenbloom of the Chicago Tribune,

Joel Quenneville wanted Andrew Shaw a lot more than he wanted Teravainen, for instance. Wanted to use him in a lot more situations. Trusted Shaw more than Teravainen. Right after the season ended, remember, Quenneville called Shaw "irreplaceable.''...

That’s the way it has to work. No ego, no possessiveness, no piddling on trees to mark territory. This is not a power struggle as I see it, it’s a working relationship, and it works. It has produced three championships in seven seasons, this relationship between the logical, unemotional Bowman and the dynamic, demanding Quenneville. If you’re a Trekkie, Bowman is Spock and Quenneville is Capt. Kirk.

Some GMs couldn’t handle it, but Bowman does because it works and because it’s the only way he could rightly fire Quenneville, if it ever came to that. The only fair way to evaluate a coach is by giving him what he wants.

If the coach can’t deliver another banner or two with the players he wants in what feels like a quickly closing window, then the GM has to find somebody else.

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