Dominic Kinnear didn’t deserve this.
I don’t necessarily mean losing his job. He was on the hot seat for good reason. What I mean is that he didn’t deserve to lose his job in the middle of the season, in a position to meet his stated competitive objective, after a win, with fairly robust support in his locker room, without much ceremony, replaced with a profoundly inexperienced internal candidate who by his own admission wasn’t planning on ever being a coach until GM Jesse Fioranelli approached him about it “pretty recently.”
It could ultimately turn out to be the correct decision, and a laudable one, which I’ll get into later.