“Carolina general manager Jim Rutherford is rolling the dice by hiring a coach with limited head coaching experience. Prior to joining the Admirals, (Kirk) Muller’s only head coaching stint was a year behind the bench of a very bad team at Queen’s University,” said writer Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette.

Hickey says that Muller is a good guy who can identify with players but he’ll have to take a crash course in how to act like a head coach. “The head man doesn’t always have the luxury of being a good guy and Muller will have to figure out a way to motivate a team whose best players – Eric Staal, Cam Ward and Tomas Kaberle among others – haven’t been the best players,” he wrote.

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