A poster on HF sums up my feelings on the situation precisely.
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Originally Posted by Freudian
I don't think Avs had any chance of winning a Stanley Cup with Roy as a coach. It seems not even Roy had faith in his ability as a coach since he decided to quit. Perhaps not even his ego prevented him from recognizing how badly he has been out-coached, especially the last two years when the book was out on him. When the odds of looking really bad are greater than the odds of looking good, perhaps quitting is pure self-preservation. Now he can go to Quebec where he's the big fish.
Just like players have ceilings, so do coaches.
Personally I always figured Roy would go scorched earth on us, depleting everything for one or two shots at a cup so I'm happy this happened. By the comments he made about him wanting to have more influence this off-season I suspect he was starting to switch to that mode.
Before the Stuart buyout Avs might have been able to squeeze Radulov in, but after it was obvious the only way to do it is to get rid of Varlamov/Duchene/Barrie or perhaps even Landeskog.
One guy who absolutely OWNED Roy was Mike Babcock. Even with a depleted roster in Toronto it felt like watching Gennady Kasparov take on a 5-year-old who had just learned chess an hour beforehand. It was almost as bad as Vigneault repeatedly schooling Joe Sacco whenever the Canucks and Avs met up.